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whitepaper Trends 2006: Retail IT2006-03-17 07:00:55
  The retail IT spending outlook is positive: Retailers have finally figured out how to compete with Wal-Mart and are now organizing themselves to deliver differentiation. Many retailers have tackled aging POS platforms, with most initiating a POS upgrade or replacement in 2004 and/or 2005. So where will 2006 take us? Two places: Experience-based differentiation — whether an explicit strategy or a reactive move to be more customer service-oriented — will drive technology activity beyond the store; and service-oriented architecture will break down application boundaries, putting infrastructure questions — and investments — back on the road map. Is the retail IT renaissance finally here? It might be just around the corner — but only if sales stay up, IT finally learns how to talk to the business, and the business finally learns that architecture investments pay off in the end.

Tags: Business Intelligence - Data Warehousing, Service-Oriented Architecture		   
whitepaper Scaling From Pilot to Implementation2006-05-10 01:00:27 Texas Instruments
  This paper addresses relevant hardware and software considerations that companies will have take into account when attempting to scale from a small RFID pilot to a full-blown RFID deployment. With respect to hardware, emphasis is given to the tag value chain that users should anticipate in moving from pilot-level implementation to rollout-level implementation. With respect to software, emphasis is placed on considerations that will drive the ability to seamlessly and on a scalable level, integrate the real-time data flowing from RFID readers and other compute infrastructure with traditional enterprise systems such as Warehouse Management Systems (WMS) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems.   
whitepaper RFID - The Business Value0000-00-00 IDG (International Data Group)
  Kids Headquarters services major clothes retailers across the United States. In recent years, the company has embraced RFID at practically every stage of the supply chain to streamline distribution and inventory processes, improve quality and customer service, and get a better handle on business trends. This webcast describes these issues.

Tags: Mobile - Wireless Communications, RFID		   
whitepaper Transforming the Economics of Retail: The Four Imperatives for Retail Success2006-07-04 04:03:04 Oracle
  Oracle recently completed a research study on its many retailing customers, comparing numerous metrics with industry averages and benchmarks. These customers had more than $500 million in annual revenues. The results were remarkable and illuminating. In softlines, Oracle retail customers are larger than average, grow faster, generate higher margins, operate with less inventory, are more capital-efficient, and create more enterprise value. Annually, Oracle customers create $36 million (72%) more long-term economic value than industry peers.   
whitepaper Tight Controls Produce Fresh Sales and Healthy Profits for Supermarket Chain2006-01-01 Microsoft
  Brito Supermarkets sells 5,000 SKUs of packaged foods and fresh produce from Mexico, Central and South America, and the United States in six stores with three restaurants in Georgia and Illinois. Hired to update IT, Mauricio Hidalgo needed Point-Of-Sale (POS) and inventory security throughout the chain. He needed a system to tighten control, cut losses, and better serve the customer. Microsoft Business Solutions Retail Management System delivers instant sales and inventory reports, and tight product definitions at the register. Cash and product control is tighter.

Tags: Point of Sale Devices, Sales - Marketing		   
whitepaper When Small Technology Is a Big Deal: Legal Issues Arising From Business Use of RFID2006-06-13 01:00:28 University of Washington
  Radio Frequency IDentification ("RFID") is a wireless tracking technology. Goods fitted with radio tags can communicate with computers via radio waves, revolutionizing methods to locate and catalogue goods at every stage of the supply line. Current research predicts that 40% of all inventory intensive businesses will have such wireless tracking systems by the end of 2005. This paper examines current legal trends that impact business use of RFID including contractual considerations to properly allocate risks attendant with implementation of RFID, FCC regulation of RFID, and consumer privacy concerns.   
whitepaper WLAN-Based Asset Tracking for Warehouse Management2006-05-24 01:00:27 Humboldt University Berlin
  Asset tracking offers high potential to improve efficiency of warehouse management. Typically the tracking is done employing RFID technology. As yet however, most goods are not prepared with RFID and it would require investment in costly hardware, infrastructure, and process adaptations. WLAN-based asset tracking is getting ready as a cost-effective alternative since software-only approaches are becoming mature. They can reuse existing standard WLAN devices and infrastructure for position sensing. This paper presents such a system - MagicMap - that is developed for real-time positioning based on WLAN signal strength measurements, and describes how it seamlessly integrates into a warehouse management scenario.   
whitepaper RFID Basics for Retailers2007-07-31 Intermec Technologies
  Despite the promise that the technology holds, limitations with the initial RFID implementations have made the experiences to-date mixed. The recently ratified EPCglobal UHF Generation 2 standard and the RFID standards work being done by ISO are key to improving this experience and progressing RFID into the mainstream. With global RFID standards coming into place, the key technology providers are now spending the millions and millions of dollars necessary to gain the system performance increases, reliability and cost reductions that the market needs. Dependable technology, emerging standards plus increasing business pressures are driving the rapid adoption of RFID. That is why it is important to have up-to-date information about RFID performance, integration capabilities and standards.

Tags: Supply Chain Management		   
whitepaper Improving Business Results: An Inventory Manager's Guide to Integrated Slotting2005-09-20 RedPrairie
  Optimizing warehouse slotting is a challenge for every inventory manager. Without proper systems support, this is a tedious and error-prone obligation. With the right systems in place to automate and enhance this process, inventory managers are free to focus on macro-level decisions with real impact to the bottom line. While slotting solutions are not new to the market place, next generation capabilities are available that enhance the inventory manager's ability to make decisions. New slotting optimization and decision support capabilities provide the inventory manager with greater visibility to the overall impact to the operation of new plans. This white paper describes the typical slotting tasks of the inventory manager and how the next generation slotting capabilities optimize warehouse slotting - and the inventory manager's time.

Tags: ROI - TCO		   
whitepaper Turning the Assortment Vision Into Reality2006-01-03 01:01:49 Oracle
  Often, in complex retailing environment, the vision of the assortment strategy - along with the profitability it promises - fails to become reality. Perhaps that strategy encapsulates a directional heading toward more localized execution. This white paper discusses what is needed in order to translate an assortment strategy into a profit-maximizing reality, and it offers a path into an area of untapped opportunity - localized execution - which until now has been too complicated for tackling the challenges of traditional assortment strategies.