Oracle Retail Series
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8 Strategies for Successful Retail CIOs
Yesterday the main expectations for the retail CIO were to keep the servers running, desktops patched, and store-based POS systems taking money. Today, the CIO fulfills a more strategic role, one that impacts the organization’s ability to adapt to changing consumer preferences, preserve margins and serve customers. This quick read features 8 strategies CIOs are employing to meet the demands of modern retail, plus tips from leaders at Zenni Optical, C. Wonder and Shop Direct on how to bring them to life.
Customer and Demand Insights Give Retailers Product Management Prowess
Retailers continue to collect this data and many have made good use of it, segmenting and targeting customers and rewarding loyal behavior with discounts and offers. Still, many sense that there’s untapped potential. They’re right. With the cost of data storage plummeting and the capabilities of analytical tools on the rise, this data’s value is set to skyrocket. John Bible, Senior Director of Retail Data Science and Insight at Oracle Retail shares his view on how insights from these vast data storehouses can scientifically inform retailers’ decision-making in critical strategic, tactical and operational areas, including category management, shelf space allocation and new product introductions.
The Science of Retail: How to Counterbalance Instinct with Data-Driven Insight
Traditional brick-and-mortar multi-channel retailers have online competitors ruled by data scientists who define retail as a data mining and optimization problem. John Bible, Senior Director of Retail Data Science and Insight at Oracle Retail discusses the science of pricing, and predictions for the role of science in retail over the next five years.
Your Experience Platform: Optimized Operations
The proliferation of consumer touch points has created a significant operational challenge for retailers, making it difficult to achieve consistency in product content, pricing, promotions, and inventory availability across multiple sales channel. This white paper from Oracle Retail discusses how the consolidation of omni-channel merchandising and inventory information, combined with the support of efficient transaction systems to move products in alignment with consumer demand, is no longer optional, but rather a modern retailing necessity.
Your Experience Platform: Actionable Insight
In the not-too-distant past, a retailer simply had store-level sales data, from which virtually all planning decisions were made. Today, retailers—from grocery to fashion—are bombarded with data that, with the right tools, can help them gain actionable insight into shoppers’ behavior across channels. In this white paper Oracle Retail explains how retailers can accurately measure consumer interest in specific merchandise and apply that knowledge from one channel to the next, thoroughly understand the implications of promotions on specific customers and customer segments, price on product performance, plan channel-specific assortments accordingly, and coordinate the supply chain processes to ensure execution of the cross channel plan.
Aligning Planning Decisions with Demand to Overcome Mega Retailer Competition
Retailers need to know how they can offer competitive pricing and flexibility in fulfillment while still maintaining solid margins. Oracle Retail Solutions Director, Mike Johnson discusses four interlocking strategies that can be used to achieve this goal: single view of demand, granular planning, proactive supply chain and return on inventory investment.
Modern Commerce: It's All About Experience
Oracle Retail delivers best-in-class commerce applications focused on scalability, performance and personalized experiences. Explore 8 case studies in this scanable eBook to see how we are increasing revenue, customer engagement, and operational efficiency for industry-leading B2C and B2B brands in hardlines, fashion and grocery worldwide.
Oracle Retail Showcase - Stage Stores
After doubling its e-commerce traffic in 2012, the following year Stage Stores launched an aggressive six-month upgrade to bring an enterprise-class commerce platform on-line in time for the holiday season. Hear direct from Stage Stores CIO, on why the retailer selected Oracle Retail to ensure they met their expedited timeframe for deployment.
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