Retail and Consumer Products Thought Leadership

Operations Insights

• Scrutinizing the Decision to Outsource Sourcing
• Optimizing Your Outsourced Sourcing Strategy
• The Three Stages of Retail PLM Adoption Including Five Myth Busters for Better Product Development
• Improving Inventory Effectiveness Doing More with Less
• Developing Products That Enhance the Brand Lessons from Merchants That Know How to Innovate: Part One of Two
• Creating a Successful Product Development Operation Lessons from Merchants That Know How to Innovate: Part Two of Two
• Europe's 2009 Global Sourcing Reference
• Managing a Supply Chain of Proprietary Products
• Using Strategic Sourcing to Cut Costs Looking toward Strategic Sourcing to Alleviate the Ravages of the Recession
• Supply Chain Optimization for Private-Label Products Product Design, Inventory Management, and Supply Chain Management
• Managing the Assortment Lifecycle Planning for producing private-label goods
• Supply Chain Effectiveness 2010 Survey of Collaborative Supply Chain Effectiveness Report

Act Vertical

• The Rise of Act Vertical Retailers KSA's seminal research on how and why some retailers are out-performing the industry
• The Act Vertical Concept Defining Act Vertical retailers and their superior performance
• The Success of Act Vertical Retailers Avoiding the death spiral of discounting
• The Act Vertical Imperative Increasingly, successful retailers must collaborate with consumers and vendors to provide unique products and experiences
• Act Vertical Commentary and News National coverage of our seminal research