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Three key emerging trends impacting India's online retail market
Research firm Technavio’s latest report on the online fashion retail market in India highlights three key emerging trends predicted to impact market growth through 2020. Technavio defines an emerging trend as something that has potential for significant impact on the market and contributes to its growth or decline.
Three key emerging trends impacting India's online retail market
Research firm Technavio’s latest report on the online fashion retail market in India highlights three key emerging trends predicted to impact market growth through 2020. Technavio defines an emerging trend as something that has potential for significant impact on the market and contributes to its growth or decline.
New platform enables customers to order using social media
Conversable has unveiled an enterprise platform that allows for the creation of interactive, automated experiences on messaging and voice platforms. The launch took place in partnership with international fast-food chain Wingstop, with the Conversable platform enabling customers to place orders from both Facebook and Twitter.
Logistics & supply chain operators thrive and survive in the Philippines
Transporting goods in a country has its challenges — one has to deal not only with geography issues, but stiff competitions as well. So how do logistics and supply chain operators thrive and survive? Tina Arceo-Dumlao finds the answer.
Logistics is the next frontier in e-commerce
In the hyper competitive e-commerce industry in Asia-Pacific, retailers are moving beyond competing on price to competing on logistics, getting packages to more people with greater speed and security. The strategies employed range from expanding traditional inhouse logistics capabilities to creative ones such as investing in store-based retailers, using new types of pick-up locations and hyperlocal delivery. As the e-commerce giants battle it out in this new frontier, it will be imperative for all retailers to keep up or risk losing their share to those who can deliver quickly and efficiently.
Create a responsive and demand-driven supply chain
By 2020, the leading retailers will have shifted focus away from ‘on-shelf availability’ to ‘on-demand availability’, aiming to provide 100% product availability to fulfil customer orders for delivery in various formats anytime and anywhere, using a low-cost approach for distribution. The key to creating a successful demand-driven supply chains (DDSC) for retailers is to ensure sufficient supply chain visibility and execution, says Peter Liddell, Partner, Asia-Pacific Head of Supply Chain, KPMG Australia.
China has designs on fashion
As their industry shifts away from manufacturing to services and retail, Chinese consumers have embraced haute couture. Last year, China’s luxury spend reached US$16.8 billion, accounting for 20% of global luxury sales. Its expected sales will reach US$84 billion by 2020. The government’s strategy — to move up the value chain and to stimulate the consumer economy — looks sensible in the long term, says Jessie Qian, Head of Consumer Markets, KPMG China.
THAIFEX 2016: Increased footfalls and floor space
Last month’s THAIFEX – World of Food Asia 2016 showed local and international visitors why its theme of “Thailand the Kitchen of the World” was indeed apt. Millette Manalo-Burgos reports.
Optimising multi-channel communication for retailers
The retail landscape in Asia- Pacic today is fast-growing, vibrant and competitive.
Zebra's new RFD8500 sled now available
The RFD8500, Zebra Technologies’ first multi-operating system RFID sled, is now available. Zebra, which supplies products and services that enable real-time visibility into organisations’ assets, people and transactions, designed the RFD8500 to easily add high-performance RFID and 1D/2D barcode scanning to Android and iOS mobile devices in Asia-Pacific.
Why China's supply chain will set the next-gen standard
Will China be able to leapfrog more established markets to develop the next generation of supply chain solutions? Darren Smillie, Customer Supply Chain Insight manager, IGD, investigates.
IoT enhances logistics and supply chain management
How is the Internet of Things (IoT) changing the way logistics and supply chain workflows work? And how does implementing connected logistics solutions impact the rest of the chain? Millette Manalo-Burgos finds out more.
Trade partnership poised to bring positive impact
The recently negotiated Trans-Pacic Partnership (TPP) trade agreement will have a positive impact on both retailers and American consumers once enacted, according to a report released by the National Retail Federation (NRF). NRF is the world’s largest retail trade association, representing discount and department stores, home goods and specialty stores, Main Street merchants, grocers, wholesalers, chain restaurants and Internet retailers from the US and more than 45 countries.
UnionPay is the official card of the Great Singapore Sale
UnionPay International (UPI) will be working closely with retailers across the island to offer a range of exclusive offers, rewards and privileges to UnionPay cardholders, as well as new shopping experiences to local consumers and visiting tourists during the Great Singapore Sale (GSS) 2016 period from June 3-August 14.
Brands resonate more with affluent Chinese consumers
According to a new study from Collinson Group, a global firm specialising in influencing customer behaviour, affluent middle-class Chinese consumers are embracing loyalty programmes more than their counterparts in Hong Kong and Singapore.
HK the only economy with majority ‘save now' mindset, says survey
Research firm GfK reveals that internationally people with a ‘save now’ mindset outnumber people with a ‘have fun now’ mindset — but the numbers are very close.
Waitrose products sell online in China
Retail UK company Waitrose has started exporting to China last month after reaching an agreement to sell products online through the Royal Mail Store on Tmall Global, an online marketplace managed by the Alibaba Group.
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Siam Piwat Group’s digital chief touts AI’s transformative power in boosting customer value, personalisation, and brand trust.
Siam Piwat Group’s digital chief touts AI’s transformative power in boosting customer value, personalisation, and brand trust.
