Data Synchronization

Cabela's integrates multiple data sources to keep up with customers' increasingly non-linear shopping patterns.

Marketing departments are taking on bigger roles, using direct connections with empowered shoppers to build customer engagement. But retailers need to improve marketing/IT synchronization to maximize marketing's capabilities in the omni-channel retail enterprise.

The POS is gaining new potential from technologies including mobility and cloud-based on-demand architectures. This report, which features RIS News research, indicates retailers are seeking greater flexibility from their current and future POS solutions.

Guitar Center is deploying APT's Test & Learn Management Solution, enabling the retailer to improve targeting and profitability across merchandising, pricing, capital, marketing and store operations initiatives.

A new breed of third-party data sharing solutions enables retailers and suppliers to efficiently share and analyze POS, merchandising and supply-chain data. Download this report to learn about a new data-sharing paradigm.

Winning the business of the post-recession shopper requires retailers to up their game in personalization, customer engagement and relevance. That means not only gathering customer data but analyzing it for actionable insights—including how customer behavior differs from channel to channel.

After completing a big warehouse project Urban Outfitters reduced labor by 35%, manifesting and invoicing processes by 80% and increased throughput by 300%.

Data centralization gives Wilsons Leather real-time sales info

Respondents to the inaugural Retailer/Supplier Shared Data Study ranked Walmart the strongest in data sharing with suppliers by a significant margin, while consumer goods giant Procter & Gamble took the crown for managing downstream data among suppliers.

Retailers' collection of data across the enterprise has reached historic levels. For years retailers have had more data than they are physically capable of processing.