Retail with purpose

July 23, 2018

Why now? Because retail is no longer business as usual. More than 200 retail bankruptcies have taken place in the United States since 2010.1 Startups and service companies are swooping in quickly to capture their share of the market, selling direct to end consumers instead of through traditional wholesale models.

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OfficeMax

Formed by the merger of Office Depot and OfficeMax, Office Depot, Inc. is a leading global provider of products, services, and solutions for every workplace – whether your workplace is an office, home, school, or car. Office Depot, Inc. is a resource and a catalyst to help customers work better.

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ERP SOFTWARE PRICING GUIDE

whitePaper | September 16, 2022

ERP pricing models can offer a daunting challenge whether it’s your first system purchase, an active operational upgrade, or a holistic migration from one platform to another. In order to ensure accurate cost calculations, not only do you require a strong comprehension of company scale, but you must also understand the intricacies of the multitude of ERP pricing plans

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UPS New Ecommerce Ecosphere white paper

whitePaper | November 3, 2019

We live in the age of the Platform Economy using Uber and Lyft to catch a ride, Airbnb to rent a room and OpenTable to get a reservation at the trendiest new restaurants. And those are just a few of the myriad companies that have succeeded in turning old-fashioned products and services into marketplaces with their own ecosystems. And so it is with online retail, where marketplaces like Amazon, Alibaba, Mircado Libre and Flipkart have become the first stop for many shoppers. Merchants can list their wares on the big marketplaces, reaching audiences far larger than they could themselves. At the same time, they can engage Shopify, Square, ShopRunner or the hundreds of discrete service providers that have emerged to set up or enhance their own market platforms.

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Polybags in the fashion industry: evaluating the options

whitePaper | December 19, 2019

Polybags are the ubiquitous packaging of the fashion industry something that unites brands small and large, from sportswear to luxury, to fast fashion retailers. This is the clear plastic bag which covers every garment from manufacturing to retail stores or consumer homes. In some cases, it is removed before it gets to a consumer, but polybags are still present ‘behind the scenes’. Our report does not focus on other sources of plastic, including retail shopping bags or ecommerce mailers, which have been covered in other publications.

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A guide to transformation in the cloud

whitePaper | May 31, 2022

When innovative companies plan and perform digital business transformation initiatives, they rely on technology to realize breakthrough results that businesses have sought to accomplish for years:

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Pushing the final frontier: China Retail Digital Transformation whitepaper

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.

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How to Develop a Killer E-Commerce RFP

whitePaper | July 21, 2022

The Request for Proposal (RFP) process for a new e-commerce platform can easily require 1,000 hours and can take months to complete. Wow! you might be thinking, that’s a lot of time and energy. And it is, but it’s necessary as the stakes are high; organizations that fail to conduct a thorough and well thought out RFP process can suffer the consequences for a long time thereafter.

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Spotlight

OfficeMax

Formed by the merger of Office Depot and OfficeMax, Office Depot, Inc. is a leading global provider of products, services, and solutions for every workplace – whether your workplace is an office, home, school, or car. Office Depot, Inc. is a resource and a catalyst to help customers work better.

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