Keyword

Retail & Consumer Products

COVID-19

Research

How COVID-19 is changing the food and beverage industry

The pandemic has rearranged consumers’ needs in general. This report focuses on how COVID-19 impacts the 2021 Food & Beverage industry in Europe.

UPDATED AS AT 15 FEBRUARY 2021

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05.01.2021 / Companies Digest

Press Article

Creating Emotional and Unique Shopping Experiences with Digital Commerce

Susanne Zander, Partner at Syskoplan Reply and Reply “Digital Commerce” Communities of Practice Lead, explains why companies must embrace hyper-personalisation and 'micro-moment' technologies to ensure their e-commerce strategy is capable of successfully navigating the disruption of the Coronavirus. Read more in Companies Digest.

Digital Value Chain

Case Study

Legami and value chain innovation

Driven by digital innovation, consumers began asking for the physical store to take on a new meaning, a phenomenon that has necessitated a profound transformation on the part of retailers. Retail Reply proposed the best solution for Legami’s needs based on the Oracle Retail Xstore Point of Sale suite.

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11.11.2020 / Online

Event

SAP Impulses for Digital Consumer Goods Companies

On 11 November 2020 4brands Reply participates in the online series "SAP Impulses for Digital Consumer Goods Companies". The experts give an insight into SAP Data Warehouse Cloud for the integration of external data sources using the example of crawled promotion prices.

22.10.2020 / Retail Trend Research

Checking out Checkouts

A survey of leading Retailers’ on the Future of Automated Checkouts

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Mobile Robotics

Case Study

Robotics in Real Estate Operations

Reply, among the first Boston Dynamics Integration Partners worldwide, is testing the "SPOT" robot with ECE to support businesses in benefitting from advanced mobile robotics. As part of the so-called "Early Adopter Program" Reply and ECE have identified multiple possible use cases.

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08.10.2020 / IT Pro

Press Article

How Liberty navigated a site relaunch during a pandemic

In Reply's latest article in collaboration with IT Pro we take a look at how Threepipe Reply helped the iconic department store and retail brand, Liberty, navigate a site relaunch during the pandemic. Learn more about the challenges and opportunities for growing online retail in 2020.

07.10.2020 - 08.10.2020 / Live Event

Event

Netcomm Forum 2020

Reply participates in the digital edition of Netcomm Forum Live, a fair dedicated to the world of Fashion & Lifestyle and Food & Grocery. The appointment includes two days during which participants will be able to learn about, discuss and redesign their digital and distribution strategies in the Retail & E-Commerce, Ai & Data Intelligence, Payment, Logistics, Legal & Fiscal and Esport areas.

Digital Marketing

Best Practice

CRO: Digital marketing strategies in the luxury sector

Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO) is becoming one of the most relevant practices in the whole digital marketing ecosystem. Over time, it has been an often neglected activity, whose knowledge and application was limited to a very small audience of industry experts. Like Reply has developed and implemented an advanced analytics solution to track customers' digital behaviour with the aim of optimising the conversion rate of web views into final purchases.

DIGITAL MARKETING

Best Practice

The retail network restarts through digital marketing

Nowadays, digital presence guarantees flexibility and agility of business communications towards customers, allowing the business to keep in touch and enable new relationship solutions at a distance. Like Reply's perfect combination of strategy and technology supports local business networks both in the development of the recovery steps and in the operational deployment of digital marketing initiatives at a scalable level for the entire network.

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COVID-19

Research

Is Coronavirus setting new trends in the Fashion Industry?

Reply leverages Data and Analytics to gain insights into the development of the Coronavirus pandemic and how it impacts society, consumers and industries. This report focusses on the changes in the Fashion sector since the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak.

UPDATED AS AT 20 April 2020

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Customer Experience Management

Best Practice

Automation in Tour Planning

Sales representatives spend many hours every day travelling to customers. In order to increase the efficiency and the degree of automation of route planning, 4brands Reply developed a tour planning solution that enables a complete integration of data into different CRM platforms and supports both cloud systems such as SAP Customer Experience and on-premise systems.

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COVID-19

Research

Impact analysis: How is the consumer goods industry responding to Coronavirus?

Reply leverages Data and Analytics to gain insights into the development of the Coronavirus pandemic and how it impacts society, consumers and industries. This report focusses on the changes in the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) sector since the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak.

UPDATED AS AT 06 April 2020

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Retail Revolution

Research

Retail in the 2020's

Download the IMRG-Reply "Retail in the 2020s" Report to find out how retail will be disrupted over the next decade. In this report we look at the changing dynamics of the consumer revolution and seek to highlight why this will affect how merchants manage demand, source products and which technology systems will play a key role in this brave new world.

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SELEX

Case Study

Selex strengthens eCommerce infrastructure with AWS Cloud

Storm Reply, an AWS Premier Consulting Partner, supported the Selex Commercial Group, starting from the early stages of migration to the company's day-by-day operations, through an active DevOps service based on the customer’s specific requirements.

Fashion

Case Study

Digital Innovation Starts from the Physical Store

To integrate some of the most advanced digital technologies into its in-store operating processes, the Prada Group has chosen to rely on Retail Reply’s vast experience and on the functionality offered by Oracle’s innovative Retail Suite.

DISCOVER MORE

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SAP C/4 HANA

Best Practice

A first step towards a cloud platform at a leading wholesaler

A leading wholesaler has chosen a new approach to more efficient customer management with the support of 4brands Reply: The path went from an on-premise to a CRM solution based on SAP C/4 HANA Sales Cloud.

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22.01.2020 - 23.01.2020 / Berlin

Event

4brands Reply at LZ Open 2020

4brands Reply, the consumer goods specialist of the Reply Group, presents "AI Store Check" on 22 and 23 January 2020 at the LZ Open in Berlin at booth number 11. The annual kick-off event of the Lebensmittel-Zeitung networks the most important decision makers from the retail and FMCG industries.

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Capri Group

Case Study

Here and everywhere. Now or never.

The Capri Group, owner of the well-known fast fashion brands characterised by high growth potential - Alcott and Gutteridge - is taking on, with Retail Reply’s support, an innovative digital transformation process. This process puts Artificial Intelligence at the service of the Retail world and integrates the gradual nature of a scalable approach to the vision of a multi-channel oriented future.

Human machine interfaces

Best Practice

Smart Retail, take a photo and buy

Using AI and Machine Learning, Portaltech Reply has created a mobile app that brings the physical and digital worlds closer together, simplifying the purchase and increasing customer engagement.

AI for Retail

Best Practice

AI Store Check: Shelf Survey at POS with just one click

"AI Store check" is an application which allows sales representatives to automatically perform shelf surveys – all they need to do is create photos of the shelves with the app and upload them to the cloud. An AI is then used to perform an analysis.

18.09.2019 - 19.09.2019 / Essen

Event

ECR Tag 2019 with 4brands Reply

Find out about the future trends in offline and online retailing and meet the consumer goods experts from 4brands Reply at ECR Day 2019 - the congress for the retail and consumer goods industry - on 18 and 19 September 2019 in Essen at booth No. 32.

Primadonna

Case Study

The Convergence between Store and Digital

To pursue Primadonna‘s goal of transforming from footwear and accessories specialist to fast fashion retailer, Retail Reply has implemented an integrated solution with online channels that can manage all store operations, from providing information on product details and availability to creating orders on behalf of customers and managing loyalty programs.

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Analytics Assistants

Best Practice

DASHBOARDS: THE NAVIGATION SYSTEMS OF DIGITISATION

Top decision-makers in retail companies with a digital commerce strategy often lack the appropriate control mechanisms to actively guide their company through the digital transformation. Analytics assistants offer support, which should offer the business world the same comfort as we already enjoy as consumers in the digital shopping world.

Omnichannel

Article

Omnichannel: the way to go for the B2C retail sector

Four tips on how you can offer your customers the perfect customer experience in a multimodal retail world - Or how I have been trying to buy a new armchair for a year now, but in the end only have an increasing amount of new shoes.

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Advanced Outlet Analytics

Best Practice

Retailytics: digitisation in stationary retail

TD Reply has developed a scalable approach that predicts sales for various points of sale, segments outlets based on their sales potential and target group fit, and optimises marketing measures per store so that stationary retailers can also jump on the bandwagon of data-driven decisions – read more about the Advanced Outlet Analytics approach.

Advanced Outlet Analytics

04.02.2019 / A1 Retail

Press Article

OMNICHANNEL – THE FUTURE OF B2C TRADE

How can you make sure you’re offering your customers the perfect customer experience? It sounds simple: the more channels customers use when buying a product, the more they spend. Find 4 tips by Triplesense Reply.

SUPPLY CHAIN EXCELLENCE
IN FOOD RETAIL

Discover how you can achieve a modular and scalable supply chain
for growth and competitive advantage in the Retail industry

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Supply Chain

Case Study

DRIVE EFFICIENCIES IN SUPPLY CHAIN

A major UK high street retailer has a multiple number of Distribution Centres (DC’s) that are managed internally and with 3rd Party Logistics companies. In order to drive efficiencies in their Supply Chain, Retail Reply helped the client streamline these capabilities to save operational costs.

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Retail of the Future

Article

This is how the retail of the future works: 5 hypotheses

The search for the perfect customer experience presents the retail sector with challenges and opportunities: For the consumer, the amalgamation of the online and offline worlds is already established. The use of new technologies such as artificial intelligence and IoT is essential for the best shopping experience.

5 Predictions about Retail

23.01.2019 - 24.01.2019 / Berlin

Event

LZ Open 2019: Meeting Point for the Food and Beverage Industry

4brands Reply, the consumer goods specialist of the Reply Group, is partner of the LZ Open in Berlin from 23 to 24 January 2019. The annual kick-off event of the Lebensmittel-Zeitung brings together the most important decision-makers from the retail and the FMCG sector.

19.02.2019 - 21.02.2019 / Düsseldorf

Event

Visit EuroCIS 2019 – Technology never sleeps

Meet the experts from Portaltech Reply and Syskoplan Reply at SAP's booth at EuroCIS, the leading trade fair for retail technology. The focus of the booth lies on topics such as Omnichannel Retail and Intelligent Stores.

Retail Trend Research

Research

The Retail Revolution

With SONAR Trend Platform Reply is able to create an overview and mapping of relevant trends related to Retail Technology based on their occurrence within expert media articles, mass media, patents and scientific publications.

Discover more about Reply’s survey on Retail Trends!

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Oracle eCommerce Solution

Case Study

Euronics: The New Ecommerce Portal Signed by Reply

Technology Reply is the first certified Italian partner Oracle OPN Specialised Platinum Partner. After successfully achieving the previous objective of the project Euronics Italia, assigned to them in 2014, four years later it assumes again the leadership of the new great path undertaken by Euronics Italia to bring his E-commerce to a next level.

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19.09.2018 - 20.09.2018 / Wiesbaden

Event

4brands Reply at ECR Tag 2018

With over 800 participants, ECR Tag is the leading trade congress of the German consumer goods industry. 4brands Reply is represented as gs1 Germany Solution Partner with its own booth. On September 19, Heiner von Brachel, Senior Manager at 4brands Reply, will talk in the "Customer Journey 4.0" forum about how smart data and digital tools can improve sales potential.

30.10.2018 / Hamburg / Munich / Cologne

Event

REPLY INSIDER BOOTCAMPS: RETAIL X

Megatrends such as Personalised Commerce, IoT or Data Driven Enterprise have great potential for disruptive changes in retail. In order to adapt to this world of new retail, it is necessary to constantly visualise the Customer Experience, exchange ideas with other experts and develop ideas together. This is what the Retail X Bootcamps are for.

HAMBURG 30.10.2018

MUNICH 13.11.2018

COLOGNE 21.11.2018

RECOGNISE ME - BUT DON'T SPY ON ME

To what extent will the latest technologies be appropriate to replace human interaction?

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Smart Production Planning

Case Study

Avoiding production bottlenecks

For Peter Kölln GmbH & Co. KGaA an inaccurate raw material planning is now a thing of the past. 4brands Reply has developed for the former Köllnflockenwerke a smart solution for multi-stage production planning based on SAP APO.

Case Study Kölln Flocken

02.05.2018 - 03.05.2018 / London

Event

RBTE 2018

Logistics Reply takes part in RBTE 2018, the must-attend event for retail and hospitality organisations looking for the right tools, solutions, innovations and advice on how to best run their business.

22.02.2018 / London

Event

Automated Commerce: Friend or Foe?

Retail Reply is hosting a forum on Automated Commerce in London on 22 February 2018. The event highlights some of the most pressing questions with regard to automation in commerce and provides an extensive view on the topic with expert speakers from various sectors.

Food Retail POS Integration

Best Practice

Point of sale integration in food retail

Retail is facing the challenge to change their existing business models, in order to stay competitive by offering convincing customer experiences and advanced services. Solidsoft Reply supported a major UK food retailer to achieve a comprehensive, connected and real-time view of stock, delivery and of their customers enabling the retailer to evolve their business in accordance with the customer needs.

Brexit

Best Practice

Blockchain for Brexit

In August 2017, the British government released a position paper on future customs arrangements with the EU following Brexit. Among other things, the paper suggested that new technology would address some of the challenges of maintaining trade “as frictionless as possible”. In this paper, we are looking at what blockchain can and can’t do to address this challenge.

Sales Success

Best Practice

The three components of Sales Success

Competitive advantage and survivability in retail will depend on exceeding customer expectations, through gathering the right insights, intelligently applying automation and maximising the potential of your employees. Avvio Reply and Retail Reply support retail companies to leverage the opportunities offered by advanced technology to create compelling customer journeys while ensuring that the companies’ employees are integrated in the change process.

22.01.2018 - 23.01.2018 / Berlin

Event

LZ OPEN 2018

4brands Reply, the consumer goods specialists within the der Reply group, is joining as a partner the LZ open, taking place on 22-23 January in Berlin. The new industry event hosted by Lebensmittel-Zeitung connects the most important decision makers of retail and FMCG sectors. More than 300 top decision makers are arguing about „Mission Trade – How Trade and Industry Manage the Digital Transformation“ and share their experiences.

21.09.2017 / London

Event

Automated Commerce Roundtable

Retail Reply hosts the Second 2017 Roundtable on the topic of Automated commerce, all the tools and technologies that are revolutionising the retail sector.

13.09.2017 - 14.09.2017 / Cologne

Event

dmexco 2017

Reply is represented at dmexco in Cologne, on 13-14 September 2017, in the Expo Special WORLD OF EXPERIENCE. This innovation hub for marketing-communication and technology highlights connected products, new consumer experiences and innovative business strategies.

21.06.2017 - 22.06.2017 / Wiesbaden/Mainz

Event

SAP Forum for the Consumer Goods Industry

4brands Reply is exhibitor at the SAP Forum for the Consumer Goods Industry 2017, taking place on 21 June in Wiesbaden and on 22 June in Mainz. The event is a valuable forum with best practice reports, expert discussions and time for networking.

15.05.2017 - 17.05.2017 / Ayrshire, Scotland

Event

NG Retail Summit

Retail Reply will be attending the NG Retail Summit in Scotland. The event will bring together, senior retail decision-makers and business leaders from across the continent to share experiences, discuss current challenges – and find pragmatic solutions to help deliver meaningful results.