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Last Mile Delivery: A Pivotal Step in Fulfillment

Retail Corner Podcast — Wed, 16 Feb 2022 17:21:17 +0000

Last Mile Delivery being 52% of the fulfillment cost, it's imeprative that retailers understand how important it is to be cross-functional and own their omni-channel from start to finish.

Expert views from Bill Catania, Founder & CEO, OneRail, A Last Mile Delivery Platform touching on key points in any retailers fulfillment journey with our host Carlos Diaz.

What are the benefits of taking a platform approach for delivery fulfillment?
What are the benefits of an aggregated network approach vs locking in a specific courier?
What are some common challenges within the supply chain industry?
How do you see supply chain challenges being addressed moving forward?
Why is last mile such a challenge compared to traditional delivery?

About Bill Catania:

Bill Catania is a start-up entrepreneur focused on developing and commercializing real-time technology networks. Catania is the founder and CEO of OneRail, an advanced last mile delivery fulfillment platform with an integrated coast-to-coast courier network of 8.2 million drivers. Catania was also the founder and CEO of digital coupon pioneer M-Dot Network. At M-Dot, Catania led his team to win the Amazon Web Services Start-Up Challenge, besting more than 1,500 companies from 23 countries. After M-Dot was acquired in 2011 by retail transaction processing leader Inmar, Inc. Catania stayed on as VP of Digital Solutions and was named among Triad Business Journal’s 2012 “40 Under 40" list for 2012.

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Voice AI for Brands: Making Ads Interactive – Stas Tushinskiy, Instreamatic

Retail Corner Podcast — Tue, 21 Dec 2021 17:16:48 +0000

Are you up for the Ads that talk back to you? Instead of hearing an advertisement from IKEA on Pandora, the ad talks to you, and you talk back to it to register your interest or feedback.

There's quite a bit of AI and natural language processing behind how this becomes possible. With this adoption, retailers are seeing massive jump in engagement (and ROI) on audio channels.

Listen to Stas Tushinskiy, Founder & CEO, Instreamatic, the voice AI technology for Brands in talks with host Shailja touching on following points:

What it takes to implement two-way interactive voice engagements with consumers?
Challenges for brands to get feedback from voice ads.
Challenges in implementing Voice AI.
Strategy and trends retailers are beginning to push forward in interactive voice space.

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How to Win and Influence Your Digital Customers – Howard Tiersky, WSJ Best Seller

Retail Corner Podcast — Tue, 07 Dec 2021 17:15:30 +0000

How to Win and Influence Your #Digital #Customers.

Listen to Howard Tiersky, WSJ Bestseller of Winning Digital Customers talk about 'Digital Transofrmation' in retail. Few touchpoints:

Who are digital customers and how you define them?
What is digital transformation? What works and what doesn't?
How is customer moving towards digital transformation?
How can retailers get benefits from their digital touchpoints?

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About Howard Tiersky:

Howard is the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Winning Digital Customers: The Antidote to Irrelevance. He was named by IDG as “One of The Top 10 Digital Transformation Influencers to Follow Today,” and by Enterprise Management 360° as “One of the Top 10 Digital Transformation Influencers That Will Change Your World.”

As an entrepreneur, Howard has launched two successful companies that help large brands transform to thrive in the digital age: FROM, The Digital Transformation Agency and Innovation Loft. Among his dozens of Fortune 1000 clients are Verizon, NBC, Universal Studios, JPMC, Morgan Stanley, the NBA, Visa, and digital leaders like Facebook, Spotify, and Amazon.

Prior to founding his own companies, Howard spent 18 years with Ernst & Young Consulting which then became part of Capgemini, one of the world’s leading global consulting firms, where he helped launch their digital practice.

Howard speaks regularly at major industry conferences and is proud to have been on the faculty of the NYU Tisch School of the Arts, his alma mater. He is a frequent contributor to CIO Magazine.

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How consumerization of B2B #eCommerce benefits small businesses – Roi Kliper, City Hive

Retail Corner Podcast — Wed, 15 Sep 2021 01:49:53 +0000

How consumerization of #B2B #eCommerce benefits small businesses.

#Pandemic has accelerated the digitization of how small businesses interact with their customers.

How do #digital platforms convey a sense of personalization and help businesses maintain relationship with their customer base?

How does digitization offer prioritization and personalization?

Listen to Roi Kliper , Co-Founder & CEO, City Hive in talks with our Host Carlos Diaz on how independent small #retailers nationwide benefit from digital platforms of today.

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Future of Retail is Phygital: Jon Nordmark of Iterate.ai in talks with Shailja on Retail Corner

Retail Corner Podcast — Thu, 02 Sep 2021 16:41:54 +0000

The Future of #Retail is #Phygital, where Digital Retail meets Physical Retail. Will 2023 be Retail's pivot point for #innovation? Are we seeing unusually rare convergence of not just one or two, but several retailer-enabling technologies that are on track for maturity and ubiquity in 2023, and bring about a technological pivot point for the industry? Listen to Jon Nordmark , CEO, Iterate.ai (former CEO of eBags) in talks with our Guest Host Shailja on what #retailers need to focus to gain competitive advantage. #AI: Expected to be $100B market in 2023. Retailers proficient with AI (able to localize intelligence to every kind of product and process that data in real-time) will wield a decisive advantage. #5G: 1B devices by 2023. For retailers, devices and data collection mechanisms positioned throughout their #supplychains, stores, and apps will enable far more granular insights and opportunities for real-time intervention. #AR/VR: Will overcome its relatively slow start because of 5G. Amazon patent activity suggests that eyeglasses with AR connectivity may utilize bone conduction technology, allowing wearers to interact without even needing to speak aloud. Retailers should certainly be prepared to adapt to the new purchase paths paved by these technologies as they arrive. #Blockchain: Will be the cornerstone of online trust, enabling secure digital identities and #DigitalMe technology. As customers protect their privacy, Gartner predicts that brand access to consumer data will decrease by 30%. Consumers in full command of their digital identities will parcel out data depending on their relationship with each brand, transforming loyalty programs. #LowCodeNoCode software development: Will massively speed up retailers' application development by eliminating the need to hard code every change or software test. Industry-wide competition will speed up as well, as retailers of all sizes leverage available platforms and launch new products and features far faster than ever. Listen to complete podcast with Jon Nordmark.

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Algo Retailing: Art of Retail combined with Machine Learning & AI.

Retail Corner Podcast — Wed, 05 May 2021 17:12:17 +0000

Algo retailing is blending machine learning and AI with the human element of data reporting to seamlessly integrate retail data across supply chain to unlock value, improve business's performance, and generate higher profits.

This panel discussion focuses on importance of Algo retailing and in-depth analysis of the financial forecasting tool 'Adivino' to help viewers understand how machine learning can help business make decisions fast and accurate.

Our Panelists:

Alexandra Anderson - Retail Finance & FP&A

Vinayak Ramesh (Forbes 30 under 30)- Machine Learning

Anil Varghese - Digital Transformation.

Moderator:

Carlos Diaz - Host, Retail Corner.

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Machine Learning and Data Science: Retail

Retail Corner Podcast — Mon, 05 Apr 2021 15:10:54 +0000

The role of Data Science & Machine Learning is increasing it's footprints in a way that transforms business functions, especially in Retail.

According to the Director of Statistics and Data Science at MIT (SDSC), Devavrat Shah, whether it is retail finance, merchandising, planning, or distribution, every decision fundametally relies on accurately forecasting the demand for the product.

Listen to complete podcast with Devavrat Shah on impact of data science and machine learning on Retail industry and where we are headed.

Pop-Up Stores: Future of Retail

Retail Corner Podcast — Wed, 23 Sep 2020 17:43:19 +0000

Digital retailers looking to expand into brick-n-mortar sector are eyeing fairly new concept of Pop-Up Stores to lower implementation cost, test new markets and increase engagement with new customers.

Today in our panel discussion we are bringing experts from retail industry who will bring into spotlight the value added benefits, logistics, misconceptions and supported technology in creating pop-up stores.

Our Panelists:

Kim Berknov - Executive Chairman, DETEGO

Sampath Kannan - CEO, Tejas Software

Vince Cavasin - Head of Marketing, FenixCommerce

Vivek Raj - CEO, Digital Spaces Inc

Anil Varghese - CEO, Proxima360

Moderator:

Carlos Diaz - Director, Sales, Proxima360

RFID: Improve Inventory Accuracy

Retail Corner Podcast — Wed, 19 Aug 2020 14:52:26 +0000

RFID technology allows retailers to track their inventory throughout the retail supply chain, from the warehouse shelves all the way to the sales floor. Manual stock count can achieve average inventory accuracy of 70 percent. But an Item-level RFID makes it possible for retailers to achieve 99 percent inventory accuracy.

In today's episode, listen to the Executive Chairman of DETEGO, Kim Berknov in discussion with our amazing host Carlos Diaz talk about how RFID can solve real inventory issues and become a lifeline for supply chain.

Visual Merchandising: What has changed?

Retail Corner Podcast — Fri, 07 Aug 2020 16:22:08 +0000

Visual Merchandising, a well known practice in retail industry to attract and engage customers by creating an upturn in highlighting features for product and services.

Are you telling a right story with colors and spaces?
Are you getting your product/service focal point right?
Are you exposing your customer to maximum merchandise?

Today on our podcast we are bringing an expert Visual Merchandiser, Amanda Featherstone, who've worked for top brands like Forever 21 & A'GACI, LLC. She is bringing her experience on what it takes to be a visual merchandiser and what are the challenges of current times.