Newsletter | July 25, 2011

07.25.2011 -- The Best $1,000 A Retailer Can Spend | Making The Store As Smart As The Customer

Retail Solutions Online Newsletter

In This Issue:
The Power Of Single-System Retail Management Beware Supply Chain Excel Users—YOU Are DOOMED!!!! Making The Store As Smart As The Customer	The Cross Channel Opportunity Foster Secure Cashless Convenience What The Retail CFO Needs To Know About EDI

Editor's Notebook
A Crusade Against Platform Proliferation By Matt Pillar, editor in chief Last week I spoke with Mike Webster, who recently took the reins at Oracle Retail, about his new mantra: Actionable Insights, Optimized Operations and Connected Interactions.

Featured Integrated Solutions For Retailers Article
The Power Of Single-System Retail Management By Erin Harris, associate editor Consider this scenario: Your store operates on proprietary ERP (enterprise resource planning) software, which requires proprietary hardware to function properly.

Guest Expert Series
Guest Series Part 1: Making The Store As Smart As The Customer Allen Buchholz, executive vice president of sales and marketing, Frank Mayer & Associates, Inc. A powerful way to improve the customer experience at retail is to prepare the sales associate to be at least as smart as the customer. In today's environment of Internet-created consumer experts, shoppers expect it.

Featured Articles
The Total Warehouse - Opportunities For Tier-2, Tier-3 And SMB's To Use A Warehouse Solution To Improve Customer Services Levels Submitted By Magstar It's a known fact that one of the best ways to make customers come to your store again and again is to have the right goods in the right place at the right time.

Foster Secure Cashless Convenience Submitted by FIS The education-centric company Blackboard needed a way for end users to make student campus account deposits through real-time online transactions, enabling them to conveniently make purchases at locations and merchants across campus and online.

What The Retail CFO Needs to Know About EDI Submitted by DiCentral Although there are a number of nomenclatures that describe data communication and integration today — Business-to-Business (B2B), XML, FTP — the best acronym that's stood the test of time for over 40 years is EDI (Electronic Data Interchange).

The Application Of Rugged Tablet PCs For In-Transit Visibility Submitted by MobileDemand Asset visibility is vital for companies in highly competitive, high-tempo business environments where success depends on meeting delivery deadlines, avoiding excessive inventory and operational costs, and negotiating the fine line of lead-time delays versus rush-order premiums.

Industry News
	Back-To-School Sales Expected To Be Flat
	Consumers Feel Grocery Store Customer Service Could Be Improved
	Network Video Surveillance Equipment Sales To Surpass Analog In 2014
	More Targeted, Timely Deals To Mobile Consumers
	Honeywell Expands Scanning Portfolio With Voyager 1250g
	Four Out Of Five Back-To-College Shoppers Say Economy Impacting Spending
	Source Technologies Named RSPA Certified Retail Technology Provider
	The AURES Group Demonstrates Its Latest ePOS Systems At RetailNOW 2011
	iGoDigital Achieves Record Account And Company Growth
	Omnego Robust Mobile Wallet And Marketing Platform Goes Social
View more headlines

Featured Content
Beware Supply Chain Excel Users—YOU Are DOOMED!!!!
The extensive use of Excel in the supply chain industry cannot last long if an organization wants to be competitive and profitable because Excel cannot fulfill the core demands of a supply chain organization.

The Cross-Channel Opportunity
While cross-channel capabilities have been a high priority for retailers, there have been few attempts to quantify the real impact of cross-channel capabilities on the top or bottom line.

The Best $1,000 A Retailer Can Spend
Retailers spend a ton of money on advertising, and marketing in general, trying to get customers in the store. The challenge is to get them to buy while they are there.

Build A Bottom Line That Keeps You Ahead Of The Curve
You may already know that the Sprint 3G network reaches over 266 million people, but there's much more to Sprint than that.
Browse the content library

Featured Video
Hastings Entertainment Finds Big Benefits From Mobile Computing
See inside this multimedia entertainment retailer's store operations, and learn how they're using mobile computers to cut their cycle count time in half.

New Industry Resource

ISV Store

ISVstore.com is a single web resource for learning how data capture, bar codes, mobile computers, and software can be combined to solve your business needs and save you money. SOFTWARE MEET HARDWARE – www.ISVstore.com

Tell Us What You Think

Participate In The RSR The Future Of Retail BI and Analytics Survey We believe delivering analytics based on real-time business intelligence can provide accurate and actionable insights to today's retailers. We would like to see how far our industry has come. And we need your help; weigh in today!

Upcoming Events
eTail : The Premier Internet Retail Conference for Senior Marketing & e-Commerce Executives
August 8 to 11 Sheraton Boston Hotel \| Boston

The Business Discovery Tour: Finally, BI For The Business User
*Join us for a refreshingly unique half day event.* Business Discovery is transforming BI for organizations across the world. Best-in-class companies are rapidly adopting it to empower every business user, while ensuring IT maintains centralized data manageability and control. Check for the dates and locations near you.

Retail WFM 2011
August 5 \| New York August 19 \| Los Angeles

Featured Products and Services

Datalogic SkorpioGUN™

Datalogic SkorpioGUN™

• Product Details
• Download Product Sheet
• Request Information

Datalogic Mobile

Warehouse Management

Warehouse Management

• Product Details
• Download Product Sheet
• Request Information

RedPrairie

Magstar Total Financials

Magstar Total Financials

• Product Details
• Request Information

Magstar, Inc.

Encapsulon Video And Control

Encapsulon Video And Control

• Product Details
• Download Brochure
• Request Information

Wren Solutions

JDA Allocation

JDA Allocation

• Product Details
• Download Case Study
• Request Information

JDA Software

Arigo Vendor Management

Arigo Vendor Management

• Product Details
• Download Brochure
• Request Information

Arigo

Retail Insight

Retail Insight

• Product Details
• Download Brochure
• Request Information

Manhattan Associates

CognitiveTPG Save Green, Go Green Trade-In Program

CognitiveTPG Save Green, Go Green Trade-In Program

• Product Details
• Request Information

CognitiveTPG

Free Retail Solutions Online Newsletter