Pandemic Exposes Cracks in Retail Technology - Series
Posted on February 11, 2021 by
Rick Boretsky
The pandemic has forced many retailers to the realization that the foundation of their system is negatively affecting their competitive effectiveness. In this blog series, we explore five cracks in the system foundation that might be holding you back. The first is the fitness of your ERP system.
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In this six-part series, we explore the five most obvious foundational cracks and discover what retailers are doing about it. This blog focuses on the challenges of fully integrating Order Management Systems into a modern omni-channel retailer’s operation.
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Never before has there been such a robust market of technical solutions for retailers. Although you would think that these solutions would be accelerating the industry’s pace of innovation, this is only true for giant retailers, which poses a problem for everyone else. The pandemic has exposed a major crack in the system’s foundation for […]
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This is part four in our series about the negative impact that COVID-19 has had on retailers’ technical foundation. In this blog, we’ll take a look at your interaction with suppliers and how you might consider streamlining your process. The pandemic shutdown found most retailers ill-equipped to flex their pipeline of incoming orders and vendor […]
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This the last blog in our series on how the pandemic has exposed cracks in most retailer’s technical foundation. The subject discussed here is analytics. Analytics has become a “crack” in the technology of most mid-sized retailers because they are living with the analytics platform they inherited from their brick-and-mortar days. Traditional methods of organizing […]
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