Supply Chain and Merchandising

First Look: Robots Roam Hy-Vee Supermarkets

Hy-Vee shoppers in Ankeny, IA, and Lincoln, NE, are seeing something new in the grocery aisles these days.
2021 Holiday Retail Forecasts and Predictions

Another holiday season is here and retailers still have a lot of uncertainty to contend with when crafting their holiday retail strategies. Here to help, RIS is arming retailers with our second annual guide to peak selling season.

How Retailers Can Radically Optimize Inventory with the Power of AI

Join this exclusive RIS webinar and uncover how industry leaders are leveraging the power of AI to ensure peak supply chain performance and tips on how inventory can be optimized across the enterprise.
How The Modern Milkman Delights Customers Through the Power of AI

According to TechRepublic, 85% of artificial intelligence (AI) projects eventually fail to bring their intended results to the business. That’s why it’s critically important to start with a measurable business problem and craft AI solutions that can prove results.
Video: Robotic Sortation System in Action

The system, which enables batch picking of multiple orders at once, is designed so it can be scaled down to a small backroom micro-fulfillment center or scaled up for use in a dark store or even mass distribution center.
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The Customer Channel

To truly deliver on personalization, it's time to evolve to an adaptive experience with a predictive focus, where the customer is the channel, and the only channel.
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Boosting Supply Chain Challenges Through Advanced Technologies: Up Close with Zebra Technologies' Guy Yehiav

We checked in with Guy Yehiav, general manager of Zebra Analytics and a member of the CGT/RIS Executive Council, to get his perspective on the promise of AI in retail and consumer goods, as well as some of the ways companies are leveraging prescriptive analytics right now.
Reimagining the In-Store Experience with the Customer at the Center

Today’s ever-connected shoppers’ expectations for more personalized service and near-instantaneous fulfillment have upended the retail ecosystem.
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How to Enable Experience-driven Shopping from Storefront to Backend

Learn how Adobe Commerce increases revenue for leading retailers with an experience-driven ecommerce platform that does it all.
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Modern Listening Made Easy: How to Take Customer Centricity to the Next Level

With fewer face-to-face transactions, today’s retailers must provide customers with a personalized experience regardless of how they choose to shop. Find out how.
Accelerating Retail Sales Through AI-Powered Visual Search and Personalization at EyeBuyDirect

How can retailers improve product discovery, drive inspiration, and uplift performance? In this session, you’ll hear how EyeBuyDirect – one of the US’s leading online eyewear retailers, is collaborating with Visenze on AWS to achieve 28X ROI.
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Evolving your operations is mission critical for the customer experience

Retail has always been a dynamic, digital and customer-first industry, but e-commerce shifts have made the Operational Experience critical.
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How Multi-Level Growth is Driven By a Single Source of Truth: Planning, Promotion, Pricing & Prediction

Discover how to bridge the gap and lay the groundwork for future acceleration as a data-driven intelligent enterprise from customer-focused merchandising to LifeCycle Pricing.

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