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This paper introduces various supply chain concepts and explains their importance. It describes initiatives being undertaken by the largest retailers and reviews what small and mid-size fi rms need to do to compete. Very few small and mid-size retailers can compete with companies like Wal-Mart on pr...
The Paxton Group announced the release and immediate availability of their SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) warehouse management system TPG/WMS-Lite version 5 today.
Over 80% of warehouse businesses manage less than 250,000 sqft of warehouse space, but finding a WMS solution that cost-effective...
Freight deliverer DHL and European retailer METRO Group have announced they will cooperate to launch France’s largest RFID-enabled retail logistics system.
Beginning in fall 2008, DHL will use RFID tags to track all its shipments to the 89 Metro Cash & Carry wholesale stores in France. Th...
MARKEM-Imaje’s Greig Francis has written about the recent trends in manufacturers’ selection of coding, marking and labelling equipment.
Manufacturers are currently seeking for coding and labelling solutions which run with minimal human interaction and training, yet delivers a high standard ...
A small Sydney IT retailer has won an international awarrd.
Dell, the International Council of Small Business and Excom Education have named Task Retail Technology as the Australian winner of the 2008 Dell Small Business Excellence Award.
New Zealand specialty jeweler Michael Hill International on Friday announced plans to buy 17 Whitehall jewelry stores in Illinois and Missouri, marking the jeweler’s first foray into the U.S. market. Whitehall filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in June.
The retailer noted that it considers all of...
H & M, Hennes & Mauritz, the international fashion retailer, will soon be available to eager followers of fashion in the kingdom of Bahrain.
The 1,507 square metre store will open in September in the exclusive Bahrain City Centre. The expansion of the trendy high street brand is a result of H&M...
CVS Caremark Corp. last week solidified its national presence with its announced purchase of Longs Drugs Stores Corp., a 521-store chain that dominates Northern California and other Western retail markets.
Woonsocket-based CVS has been pushing outside the Northeast for a decade, acceleratin...
In a week that Tesco vaunted its international credentials with a move into India, the UK\'s biggest retailer was trying to disentangle itself from a row in Turkey that underlines the challenge and reputational risk of operating in emerging markets.
A national jewelry-store chain in India, has opened its first U.S. store in a mall in the Chicago suburb of Schaumburg, Ill.
The store, located in the Woodfield Mall, will feature permanent and revolving collections of jewelry that change with the seasons. Its initial collections—Yoga, Sp...
A unique model for supply has snared fashion label Zara accolades in the global fashion stakes. Here\'s how founder Amancio Ortega stitched up the number one spot.
Last week, Spanish clothing company Zara became the world’s largest fashion retailer when its first quarter sales rose 9% t...
Checkpoint Systems, Inc. has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire OATSystems, Inc., the leader in RFID-based application software and middleware. The all-cash transaction is expected to close within two weeks and Checkpoint expects the transaction to be dilutive to earnings per share throu...
By the end of 2009, the company will open hypermarkets in Oradea (western Romania), Buzau (southern Romania), Sibiu (center), Deva (center), Braila (south), Iasi (east), Constanta (south-east) and Bucharest.
International retail companies active on the local market opened in H1, 2008 over 256 sh...
The Bargain! Shop.
The Bargain! Shop chain put forth a bid to buy 93 SAAN locations across Canada after the clothing retailer went bankrupt, forced to liquidate merchandise and shut down all stores.
“The store in Flin Flon is on our list to acquire, so our expectation would be that we woul...
Russia’s second largest oil producer LUKOIL has bought 100% in Turkish oil product retailer Akpet, which has a 5% market share, the company said on Monday.
LUKOIL said the acquisition gives it access to eight oil product terminals, five liquefied natural gas (LNG) storage tanks, thr...
Wal-Mart selects the Oracle Business Intelligence Suite to provide comprehensive data intelligence and analysis across Wal-Mart\'s operations. Wal-Mart plans to use the system to administer its logistics, transportation, category management, finance, as well as human resources, real estate, mercha...
PAK Supermarkets, Europe\'s largest Asian supermarket chain, is benefiting from the latest NetVu Connected CCTV technology developed by Dedicated Micros - part of AD Group - and installed by DM Fusion installer Security Direct.
Since opening in April, PAK Supermarkets\' new £7 million ...
IBM (News - Alert), while accelerating investments in emerging markets, has opened three centers of excellence in China, Mexico and India to provide clients with access to the latest technologies and processes in banking, retail and service management arenas.
The emerging markets - or countries ...
Rapidly Expanding Merchandising Company Selects Leading Workforce Management Solution for Increased Efficiencies and Customer Satisfaction
STERLING, Va. & CLEVELAND--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NaturalInsight, a leading edge provider of Web-based workforce management solutions, today announced that S...
Companies such as Adspace Mall Network and OnSpot Digital Network are leading the trend toward digital conversion of their out-of-home mall inventory.
There’s a lot of discussion in media circles about the impact of digital technology, and one sector enjoying a transformation is the once sleep...
RFID in Fashion 2008, the third annual event produced by RFID Journal and the American Apparel & Footwear Association, will feature new products and services designed to help companies deploy RFID quickly and profitably.
RFID Journal and the American Apparel & Footwear Association (AAFA) ...
Despite growing talk about and investment in shopper marketing in recent years, relatively little money has flowed into in-store media. Now, Wal-Mart Stores is looking to change that as it readies a second-generation in-store digital TV and signage network.
Wal-Mart is preparing to unveil more ...
Fuel View TV, the US petrol station network, has appointed Digichief, a digital signage data distribution company and ChyTV Digital Signage to provide the content and technology for their pump-top LCD screen network. The first installation will be of 100 21” screens at Shell Stations in key media ...
NEC Corp, the Japanese electronics giant, has launched an integrated interactive \'intelligent\' digital signage system that determines the gender and age of a consumer to target adverts and promotions to them.
Consumers standing in front of the display will have their key attributes d...
Point-of-Sale (POS) software is typically expensive, complex and often requires businesses to pay annual licence fees for unrelated underlying database or operating system software. And
much to the chagrin of small, medium and micro enterprises (SMMEs), POS
software is frequently locked into...
Most small business owners are not IT experts. Therein lies your opportunity. They want to spend their 16-hour work days concentrating on their businesses, not worrying about applying the latest patches to their POS software. In the case of Gary Parker, owner of five Pit Stop/Checkered Flag oil chan...
London Hotel Implements InfoGenesis POS(TM: 90.75, -0.16, -0.17%) by Agilysys to Streamline Food and Beverage Operations
Agilysys, Inc. (Nasdaq: AGYS), a leading provider of innovative IT solutions, including specifically-designed hospitality software solutions, has announced that Mandarin...
Solidcore® Systems, Inc., the leading provider of software to detect and prevent unwanted change, today released POS Check and Control™ for easily securing and controlling distributed retail point-of-service (POS) systems and kiosks. The solution is based on Solidcore\'s “runtime control” t...
Every retailer wants to appeal to as many customers as possible and hopes to master the skill of turning that appeal into sales. To do this, retailers must understand what customers want. Many customers wish for the ability to make purchases that don\'t take too much time or energy.
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