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The idea of supply chain disruption isn’t new. Everything from strikes to weather to new legislation can cause unforeseen changes to your supply chain, forcing you to quickly adapt.

The omnichannel explosion has created enormous pressure on retailers to reduce inventory and cut carrying costs, while still offering high in-stock levels and product variety. Increasing numbers of retailers are consequently turning to consignment stock, also known as scan based trading, to stay competitive.

Having an electronic relationship with your supply chain has long been viewed as a panacea if you work with a large and potentially unwieldy supplier base. From our experience, we know...

In a 2018 report, PwC stated that ‘on average 14 shops are closing per day in the UK.’ Whilst this is a damning statistic for UK retail and epitomises the struggles of our highstreets, it depicts a contrasting landscape to those companies who have...

Big data is a term used to refer to data sets that are too large or complex for traditional data-processing application software to adequately deal with. Originally, big data was associated with three key concepts: volume, variety, and velocity...