Food safety breaches in recent years have reinforced the critical nature of food safety to the ongoing integrity and financial success of retailers both in Asia and globally. This study calls on leading retailers to play a more active role in setting and improving standards for food freshness and safety. It estimates that one major food safety incident could cripple retailers, resulting in US$40 million in lost sales over two years for a single large retail chain.

In a perfect world, retailers would always have just the right assortment of merchandise at each store. But with tens of thousands of SKUs across thousands of stores, most retailers constantly deal with too many stock-outs. Read this white paper to learn how SAS software helps retailers create size profiles that translate into more accurate purchase orders. The paper also includes a detailed case study featuring Kohl's.

IT growth in India’s retail sector is projected to grow at a CAGR (compounded annual growth rate) of 23% during the period of 2008-2012, but will see a bit of a slowdown to 22% in 2009, down from 43% the year prior, reveals Springboard Research.

Retailers are commonly faced with the challenge of forecasting demand for items that are sold only at certain times of the year, but in high volumes. This paper suggests a compression approach for dealing with these kinds of highly seasonal forecasts using SAS software, which could produce more accurate results than forecasts based on standard time series modeling. It provides an illustrative example based on real-life data.

Premium Indian casual wear brand Colorplus recently implemented Lawson’s Fashion Product Lifecycle Management web-based system designed to facilitate product management from design to production.

Wellcome food store is the largest supermarket chain with 209 stores selling 12,000 different items. Wellcome's success is partly attributable to its willingness to implement best practice business management models used by supermarket operators globally. This case study explores its success secrets in Taiwan.

According to the outsourcing industry service provider publication, China Sourcing (2008), the total revenue that China offers in "outsourcing service" is around US$3b, which is only one sixth of India's.

Patties Foods, a pastry manufacturer and distributor in Australia, has chosen to implement Lawson Learning Accelerator to train its staff on various Lawson software systems it is currently using across all its stores.