Walmart's thinly spread workforce could be contributing to its increasingly empty shelves. According to an article on Bloomberg, the retailer's disorganized stores are getting worse, and shoppers are …
During a presentation at last week's Bank of America Merrill Lynch Consumer and Retail Conference, Walmart's CFO Charles Holley said developing a "next generation fulfillment network" is a global …
The kitchen and bath specialty store Fixtures Living is going big on the "try before you buy" approach. Specializing in fixtures and appliances for indoor and outdoor kitchens, laundry rooms and …
Amazon announced yesterday plans to open a new 1 million-square-foot, state-of-the-art fulfillment center in Tracy, Calif., creating hundreds of full-time jobs with benefits at the site. Amazon …
RedPrairie and JDA Software announced today that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement. According to a press release on the merger, JDA's history of supply chain planning …
The Johnson Redbook Index, an indicator of performance in U.S. retail sales, released figures yesterday showing that national chain-store sales fell 1.6 percent in the first four weeks of October …
Fujitsu has announced that it has worked together with BEAMS Co., Ltd. to develop a system for the company's new line of retail stores, B:MING LIFE STORE by BEAMS. BEAMS has deployed the new system …
A Web-based analysis tool built to assist retailers who are assessing the impact of RFID technology on their operations is now available from Impinj Inc., a UHF Gen 2 RFID technology provider. The …
Growing in severity, number and type, retailers are reporting organized retail crime (ORC) has become more troublesome than ever before. Of the 125 retail companies surveyed for NRF's eighth annual …
The Container Store has selected Manhattan Associates Inc., a global supply chain optimization provider, to help organize its growing multichannel supply chain network. Headquartered in Coppell …
Most major apparel and footwear retailers will adopt item-level radio frequency identification within some part of their business over the next three to five years, according to a survey sponsored by …
Celerant Technology has announced mobile applications for back-office retail functions, allowing for daily procedures to be simplified and completed in a fraction of the time, according to the …
OMNITROL Networks, provider of real-time sensor-driven operational intelligence and item-level traceability solutions, has announced the launch of the next generation of its Retail Smart-Store …
Xterprise has announced a released configuration of its Clarity Mobile product targeting the footwear-retail market, aimed at helping retailers increase sales by achieving 100 percent store display …
Orange Business Services is providing Auchan Group, the 12th largest food retail group in the world, a real-time tracking solution to monitor the complete routing of plastic crates carrying fruits …
JDA Software Group, Inc. has announced that MC Sports, a privately held sporting goods chain with more than 70 stores in seven states throughout the Midwest, selected JDA Allocation and JDA Size …
RFID technology is demonstrating its worth to retailers. A post on LP Magazine cites an RFID pilot program conducted by American Apparel, first reported in the RFID Journal. According to the story …
In a move intended to improve merchandise management across its franchise and private label brands, Middle East retail group Kamal Osman Jamjoom has upgraded its Oracle retail applications and …
NGC has announced that Aeropostale, Inc. has selected NGC's supply-chain management software as the company's international supply chain management system. The rapidly growing mall-based retailer …
Galleria Retail Technology Solutions, a provider of retail and category optimization solutions, today launched version 3.0 of its Behavioral Cluster Planning solution. The solution enables retailers …
If you don't have it in the store, they can't buy it — but too much inventory is almost just as bad. Supply chain management is the discipline of moving products from source to destination in the smartest way.
