Retail Supply Chain Management

Google Cloud has launched Product Discovery Solutions for Retail, a suite of solutions built to help retailers around the globe enhance their ecommerce capabilities and deliver highly personalised consumer experiences in the first phase of their shopping journeys.

By Philip Turner, freelance writer.

How do you engage with employees who rarely come into the office? How do you maintain the company culture of communication you worked so hard to establish?

Retail software vendor, Cegid, has announced that the French upmarket tea brand, Kusmi Tea, tripled online sales on its e-commerce site during lockdown and used the period to accelerate plans for introducing more omnichannel and digital services across Europe.

Over the past few decades, the UK has undergone a drastic cultural shift which has seen an increase in the number of ethnic minorities living in the UK, despite this, far too many companies are not adequately communicating with multicultural communities in the UK.

New research from Orange Business Services found that the supply chains in 40% of multinational corporations were unable to cope with the crisis created by the pandemic. The survey of 320 enterprises, focusing on the manufacturing, transport and logistics sectors, revealed that the global crisis has dramatically changed attitudes to risk.  

Unily, provider of enterprise solutions, has been selected by Best Buy Canada, a fully owned subsidiary of Best Buy Co. Inc. and one of Canada’s top consumer retailers, to overhaul its current intranet system and digitally enhance its employee experience.

Boxing Day footfall fell by 57% in 2020. The footage of overnight queues that are normally a staple of end-of-year news reports were gone, replaced by shots of deserted high streets and sombre warnings of imminent lockdown. While it’s a bleak picture, it doesn’t necessarily paint a thousand words.

UK-based homewares retailer Dunelm has deployed curbside and Deliver to-Car functionality to its customer offering at its 170 superstores across England, Scotland and Wales.

SupplyCompass, the production platform for brands and manufacturers, has unveiled a new product update that now allows fashion businesses to invite and onboard their own factories, and streamline communication via an in-built Slack-style chat feature.

PayComplete, the new brand and identity of the cash handling division of SUZOHAPP, has announced its launch. This new brand will invest in what is an Internet of Things (IoT) platform for broader financial transactions, running both on PayComplete’s native devices and others.