Retail supply chains often experience inefficiencies when one part of the process hits a roadblock, stopping everything. However, optimizing supply chain processes can help retailers avoid these issues. Streamlining paper-based processes through automation can help products move more smoothly from warehouses to customers. Supply chain optimization has benefits like 15% lower costs, 3 times shorter cash-to-cash cycles, 20% higher profitability, and 50% lower inventory levels. This allows retailers to reinvest savings into innovation.

1. 1. Forrester. “The Retail CIO Agenda 2015: Secure and Innovate” by George Lawrie, March 19, 2015.
2. JDA and Forbes, “Retail’s New Imperative: Supply Chain Optimization as a Growth Strategy.”
Take the stop-and-go out of your
retail supply chain.
Four reasons supply chain optimization ensures all green lights for retailers.
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This scenario happens more often than it should—you get the wheels in motion, then one part of the retail supply chain process hits a road block
and everything comes to a halt. With today’s retailers facing a number of challenges—low growth, shrinking margins, increased competition
and growing supply chain complexity—it makes sense that there are some bumps in the road. But it doesn’t have to be that way. By streamlining
costly and time-intensive paper processes, retailers can cruise through getting product from the warehouse and into the customers’ hands.
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Compared with competitors, retail leaders who use their
supply chain for innovation and differentiation see
15 percent lower supply chain management costs, which
help make a difference in a world of tight budgets.2
Retail leaders who have optimized their supply chains have
achieved three times shorter cash-to-cash cycle times.2
Leaders who have supply chain optimization initiatives
in place see 20 percent higher profitability than others
in the industry.2
Supply chain optimization can cut inventory levels
by 50 percent, freeing up dollars to be reinvested
in innovation.2
of CIOs expect a flat budget, yet are still
accountable for providing innovation to
the business.1
of CIOs surveyed ranked overhauling
merchandise systems in their top three
priorities over the next 12 to 18 months.1
of retail CEOs report having technology-
enabled solutions that support a
collaborative supply chain strategy.1
of CIOs responded that “too much
budget is spent on maintenance rather
than on creating new value for the
company,” in a recent survey.1