While ensuring that actual physical product is handled, sorted and transported as efficiently as possible will remain a crucial part of future distribution logistics, industry experts believe the biggest gains will...
TROY, Mich. -- Along the way to moving all its merchandising, purchasing, payment and related transactions from paper-based communications to electronic data interchange, Kmart discovered that its in-house information...
NEW ORLEANS -- Achieving exact synchronization of price, promotion and item maintenance data between retailers and direct-store-delivery vendors remains one of the thorniest issues in implementing scan-based trading...
NEW YORK -- Minimizing the effects of the year-2000 problem remains a top priority for information-technology executives, but the vast majority -- nearly 95% -- are more concerned about their trading partners' state...
UNION CITY, Tenn. -- A point-of-sale upgrade employing PC technology at E.W. James & Sons here will enable the retailer to more easily link its front end to systems controlling store planograms, direct-store-delivery...
NEW YORK -- The National Retail Federation has acquired the Association for Retail Technology Standards, a retailer-led group seeking to establish open-systems standards that will help create "plug-and-play"...
COPPELL, Texas -- Minyard Food Stores here will begin using in-store signage that contains a manufacturer's account-specific message within a retailer-approved design that can incorporate Minyard's own logo.The shelf...
STAMFORD, Conn. -- Nicholas Trivisonno wants to expand how retailers see ACNielsen, and vice versa."In the past, we treated the retailer as a data source," said the chairman and chief executive officer of the global...
Who would have thought two little digits could cause so many big problems?Dealing with the year-2000 computer problem is already straining heavily burdened information technology departments and making IT...
The country's slow but ongoing move from a paper-based government-issued benefits system to one using electronic benefits transfer has many retailers grumbling about issues ranging from limited interstate...