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Retail Paradox Weekly
Retail News Analysis by RSR Research
May 6, 2008
A Look Ahead: SAP's Roadmap
By Steve Rowen, Partner
5/6/2008
While attending SAP’s annual US Sapphire and
US user group conference (ASUG) yesterday, we had a chance to sit in on a session detailing the software maker’s retail roadmap for 2008.
Christine Fotteler, SAP’s VP for Solutions Management in Trading Industries delivered the first part of the session and focused on SAP’s strategic vision for its retail and business process platform... More
The Year of Demand?
By Nikki Baird, Managing Partner
5/6/2008
I’m as much to blame as anyone, but it seems the retail industry has a penchant for trying to sum up a year’s major trends in a simple phrase or two. In 2006 and 2007, there was a lot of talk about “the year of the customer.” This year, based on our research, ‘year of the employee’ is a strong contender, but so is another trend: the year of demand.
From the research we did on pricing, it’s clear that US retailers are moving toward an end-state where pricing capabilities play a much broader role in shaping demand – a perspective that appears to be reinforced from the early results of our latest survey on localized merchandising practices. But price is only half of the equation... More
AimGlobal: Exploring RFID and Other Forms of Automatic ID
By Paula Rosenblum, Managing Partner
5/6/2008
Over the past several years, all media attention on the auto-identification space has focused on RFID as “the” technology of the future. Depending on your point of view, the future could have been 2005, 2010, or 2020. Certainly Wal-Mart’s RFID supply chain mandate created an aura of inevitability around the technology, as did Metro’s Store of the Future.
AIM is the Association for Auto-ID and Mobility. Last week I attended AIM’s Global Technology Leadership Summit in
Washington DC and learned that... More
Dutch Retailer BGN Books Gains from RFID
By Brian Kilcourse, Managing Partner
5/6/2008
In a 4/1/2008 Retail Paradox Weekly column, we opined that
“’An internet of things’ is not only likely, but inevitable. But as is always the case, the business will drive the technology, and not the other way around.” No sooner had the newsletter been sent out, when the phone started ringing from people both adamantly “for” RFID and those just as adamantly “against” it. Frankly, it’s hard to remember a technology since scanning that can get people this worked up.
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