US Retail Candidate Preferences Report

whitePaper | November 12, 2019

The retail industry faces immense challenges in the coming years. These challenges include demographic change, raw materials becoming more expensive, consumers changing their behaviour due to increasing digitalisation and e-commerce. These are only some of the major changes currently taking place in the retail industry. The “Trends in Retail 2020” study performed by KPMG in Germany and the EHI Retail Institute highlights factors which will have a significant impact on the future development of the German retail market.

whitePaper | January 6, 2020

In retail, change is always right around the corner. As technology continues to develop, there are more and more opportunities for the improvement of a core pillar of commerce: the value chain. Basically, a retailer’s value chain can involve five main parts–raw materials, manufacturing, distribution centers, logistics, and finally, the retailer. Each link plays an important role in getting products into the hands of customers.

whitePaper | December 29, 2022

Research shows that legacy ERP 1.0 systems were not designed for usability and insight. More than three quarters of business leaders say their current ERP system doesn’t meet their requirements, let alone future plans.1 These systems lack modern best-practice capabilities needed to compete and grow. To enable today’s data-driven organization, the very foundation from which you are operating needs to be re-established; it needs to be “modernized”

whitePaper | December 30, 2019

As the world continues to rapidly undergo digitalization, brands and retailers are pushing ahead with digital innovations to meet evolving consumer needs. The strides being made in the world of e-commerce are highly evident and indicate to the opportunities that are being unlocked when digital capabilities do meet ever-changing consumer behaviors. There is however one “blind spot” in this world of digitalization. It exists in retail, and specifically in the traditional off-trade sector.

whitePaper | October 4, 2022

The metaverse, roughly defined as 3-D virtual worlds that mimic the real world, has drawn much attention since late 2021. Certain well-known global firms, such as J.P. Morgan, HSBC, Standard Chartered (banking), Samsung (technology), Adidas (apparel) and PwC (consulting) have created a presence on the current metaverse platforms The Sandbox and Decentraland. Ever since Facebook’s announcement of its rebranding and name change to Meta in October 2021,2 the investment on metaverse has continued despite a contraction in the cryptocurrency market.

whitePaper | December 31, 2021

There is perhaps no better advocate for how cloud-based ERP systems can support and help organizations continue their success than those who have been through it. In this white paper, we consolidated feedback from senior IT executives on why they switched from various SAP systems to NetSuite’s true cloud-based ERP, highlighting the pitfalls of fake cloud and on-premise deployments and how these challenges impacted their business