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Supply Chain Management in a Wal-Mart World Here's a supply-chain dilemma: Now that you've learned how to do business with Wal-Mart, what do you do with everyone else?   |
HBS Working Knowledge
October 6, 2003
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Managing Profitability: One Year Later The most important issue facing managers in this difficult economy is making more money from the existing business without costly new initiatives. The author revisits this assertion from a year ago. |
BusinessWeek
July 14, 2003
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Bar Codes Better Watch Their Backs New retail technologies have a way of lingering in dreamland until discount colossus Wal-Mart decides it's time for everyone to wake up. The alarm clock in Bentonville, Ark., just went off again, this time for a successor to bar codes called Radio Frequency Identification. |
CFO
November 1, 2003
Esther Shein |
Radio Flier Wal-Mart presents its vendors with an offer they can't refuse: implement RFID or else. |
The Motley Fool
April 15, 2005
Chris Mallon |
Wal-Mart: Tech King? Wal-Mart's innovative use of technology changed the face of American business. |
IndustryWeek
October 20, 2010 |
The Distribution Trap By catering to the whims of the mass market, manufacturers are allowing their retail customers to dilute the value of their products and services. |
BusinessWeek
May 27, 2010
Burritt et al. |
Why Wal-Mart Wants to Take the Driver's Seat The retail giant wants to grab control of deliveries from manufacturers. Suppliers' shipping costs "more than likely will be passed on to other retailers" |
Entrepreneur
June 2004
Don Debelak |
Spread It Around Find the best strategies for distributing your product, and you'll rake in the profits. Advice from Wayne Willert, founder of Gutter-Bolt Inc. |
CRM
March 30, 2012
Harris et al. |
Preparing for a New Price Paradigm Multiple channels transfer pricing decisions from retailers' to consumers' hands. |
HBS Working Knowledge
February 2, 2004
Sean Silverthorne |
RFID: The Promise (and Danger) of Smart Barcodes Thanks to Wal-Mart, we all have heard about radio frequency identification. Now RFID tags are set to pop up on everything from razor blades to cattle. |
The Motley Fool
August 13, 2007
Rimmy Malhotra |
Dark Days Ahead for Best Buy and Circuit City? Moore's Law and declining margins could spell long-term doom for retailers. While the electronics stores segment might do well in the near term, there are other industries out there that will produce more shocking longer-term returns. |
Wired
July 2004
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Attention, Shoppers: You Can Now Speed Straight Through Checkout Lines! Radio-frequency chips are retail nirvana. They're the end of privacy. They're the mark of the beast. Inside the tag-and-track supermarket of the future. |
IndustryWeek
December 1, 2003
Traci Purdum |
Technologies Of The Year -- RFID In A Box Manhattan Associates designs a pre-configured solution. |
HBS Working Knowledge
July 12, 2010
Martha Lagace |
Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide Here's how retailers can make the most of cutting-edge developments and emerging technologies. |
InternetNews
April 30, 2004
Jim Wagner |
Wal-Mart RFID Tests Underway The retail world is taking notes on the retail giant's first foray into 'case and pallet' level wireless tagging. |
BusinessWeek
September 29, 2003 |
Sanjay Sarma: Mighty Smart Labels The MIT researcher says radio-frequency ID tags are almost here -- and their uses will be mind-blowing, perhaps lifesaving. |
The Motley Fool
July 26, 2010
Alyce Lomax |
Is Big Brother in Store for You? Wal-Mart faces futuristic privacy concerns. Some privacy advocates are alarmed at the giant retailer's plans to test out new, sophisticated radio frequency identification tags in its apparel. |
The Motley Fool
July 26, 2010
Carl Bagh |
Wal-Mart's Use of RFID Tags -- a Privacy Issue or Supplier's Bane? Can Wal-Mart use them to gain another competitive edge? |
IndustryWeek
February 1, 2008
Nick Zubko |
Walking into Walls Learn to overcome these five obstacles to building a reliable supplier network. |
The Motley Fool
November 29, 2004
Seth Jayson |
Santa Skipping Wal-Mart? So the retailer's sales are down. There are plenty of other reasons for investors to be of good cheer. |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
Pay-for-Performance Trade Promotions Can Ease Friction Between Manufacturers and Retailers A common practice, trade promotion involves manufacturers giving cash or a discount to retailers in hopes that the retailer will in turn discount or promote their product to consumers. This arrangement can be a major source of friction between the two parties... |
Global Services
August 30, 2007
Sufia Tippoo |
Retail IT While larger retailers such as Target and Tesco have set up captive IT centers, others such as Carrefour, JC Penny, Marks & Spencers, Office Depot and Selfridges have been in the outsourcing mode to third-party service providers. |
The Motley Fool
December 6, 2004
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Got RFID? Radio Frequency Identification is all the rage, yet many investors still don't understand its implications. |
IndustryWeek
June 1, 2003
John Teresko |
Winning With Wireless In manufacturing, going wireless means developing a strategy for tracking what matters most -- via technologies such as RFID (radio frequency identification), bar codes and machine monitoring. The results revolutionize the enterprise. |
IndustryWeek
September 22, 2010 |
Survival of the Fittest Supply Chains In a weak economy, weak suppliers are being replaced by strong ones. |
BusinessWeek
December 15, 2003
Robert Berner |
Retailers vs. Buyers: Who Will Blink First? To avoid a cut-price Yuletide, stores have kept stocks low. But consumers await sales. |
The Motley Fool
December 6, 2006
David Meier |
Earn Great Returns From Retail With all of the slowing growth, struggling retail concepts, and overall market malaise, should investors just forget about retailers in general? Here is a three-step plan to beat the market. |
IndustryWeek
July 1, 2008
Nick Zubko |
Who's On HP's Short List? High-tech giant releases the names of its top suppliers to emphasize its supply chain visibility. |
The Motley Fool
May 6, 2004
Phil Wohl |
Hitting the Wal-Mart There were very few surprises when retailers reported their April sales figures this morning and leading the list of mild underperformers was Wal-Mart, the country's largest retailer. |
National Real Estate Investor
November 1, 2002
Janet Groeber |
A New Frontier U.S. retailers and developers are augmenting aggressive expansion efforts at home with growth strategies overseas. The goal: boost revenues and shareholder value. Near-term international opportunities for developers seem the most promising in both Eastern and Western Europe. |
The Motley Fool
August 19, 2010
Alyce Lomax |
Depressing Times for Discounters Are consumers so cash-strapped that even discount retailers have become dangerous? |
The Motley Fool
October 5, 2006
Dan Caplinger |
Know Your Numbers: Retail Sales Although retail sales releases come one by one from individual companies, you can evaluate them as a group to make inferences about the state of the consumer economy. |
CRM
May 1, 2003
David Myron |
Vertical Focus: Retail Retailers are learning from others' mistakes. Instead of investing heavily in full suite applications, retailers are nibbling on CRM and noticing bite-size successes, according to "Getting Retail CRM Right," a recent report by Forrester Research. |
Entrepreneur
September 2003
Joshua Kurlantzick |
Catch-22 Are small companies that buy from giant retailers sleeping with the enemy? |
PC World
July 2003
Andrew Brandt |
Privacy Watch: Tracked by the Shirt on Your Back? Radio frequency technology has the potential to identify us all. |
CRM
March 2006
Colin Beasty |
Retail's Two Worlds: Tips on Integrating Online and Offline Channels The emergence of online shopping is forcing retailers to reconsider the business practices and technology they use to manage customer experience in the store and on the Web. |
BusinessWeek
November 8, 2004
Louise Lee |
Santa's Feeling Strapped This Year Consumer confidence fell in October for the third month in a row. Income growth is sluggish. Energy prices are soaring. And retailers across the country are bracing for what could be a cheerless season. |
