Category: Emerging Trends & Innovation

  • Introducing iVend Loyalty Portal

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    Abinesh Agarwal
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    The purpose of the loyalty program is to provide competitive advantage for the retailer. To maintain that edge, retailers must continuously adjust and evolve their program as per customers’ needs, business requirements, and competitors’ offerings. With Mobile devices gaining an important position in retail landscape, iVend Loyalty introduces Loyalty Web Portal which allows loyalty cardholders…

  • Mobile Responsive: Future of Online Retail

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    Mahendra Jha
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    Mobile Responsive Web design is a new design approach that enables retailers to build and maintain a single online shopping portal to serve to all kinds of customers on all sorts of Mobile devices: smartphones, tablets, laptops and more. Mobile adoption is skyrocketing, as is the diversity of mobile devices on the market. Smartphones and…

  • Merchandize Hierarchy and its relevance in planning

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    Manish Chaturvedi
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    Every retail organization, regardless of its size, has a merchandise hierarchy for all the goods. A Merchandise Hierarchy is a reporting structure under which sales and inventories of products are tracked and managed. The function of the merchandise hierarchy is to categorize products and is NOT intended to describe product or classify organizational, production or…

  • Inventory Management through handheld devices

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    Bhawna Mehan
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    iVend handheld enables the retail workforce to manage store inventory using a handheld device running Windows Mobile OS version 6.0 or 6.5. iVend handheld helps in efficient stock take and goods management . iVend Handheld has been designed to be intuitive and extremely efficient. The use of the iVend Handheld results in improved data accuracy,…

  • Specialty Retailers turn Customer Centric and Profitable with Mobility

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    Manish Chaturvedi
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    The hype-to-reality transition of mobility in retail has been the fastest in the recent times. Ever since Apple started using mobile devices in their stores, which was not too long ago, retailers started taking notice. Today retailers expect the same level of customer experience that one would experience in an Apple store. Retail Applications like…

  • Mobility enhancing Retail Customer centricity

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    Bhawna Mehan
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    Mobile device multiplication among store associates, floor managers, back office and supply chain workers — and, perhaps most importantly, customers — has accelerated rapidly. For forward looking retailers who are focused on customer centricity, mobile tech integration has become the propelling force. Extension of enterprise applications to mobile devices is helping retailers achieve timely data…

  • Mobile POS – The New Point of Service

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    Bhawna Mehan
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    iVend Mobile POS, is one of the latest innovations from CitiXsys and forms an important part of the iVend Retail Management Suite. Built to operate on iOS devices and Andriod tablets, iVend Mobile POS suites the retail strategy of retail leaders who adopt innovative retail technologies to make their customers happy. As an application, iVend…

  • What can Retail Integrated Ecommerce do for your SME’s

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    Bhawna Mehan
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    These days, the whole world is online and e-commerce is changing the way that SMEs do business. Making use of efficient and effective retail integrated e-commerce models, you can significantly grow your business into something more successful than you could have ever imagined. Here we will take a look at just four of the many…

  • How integrated eCommerce application can help you expand?

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    Paula Da Silva
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    When it comes to the world of Retail business, it is important to have all of your services integrated. This way, it is easier to recall information, send out data or perform other necessary tasks and virtual management of entire business. This is true when it comes to sales, as it is the driving point…

  • Mobile eCommerce steps up Footfalls in Retail Stores

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    Bhawna Mehan
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    There’s just no escaping the fact that in the retail environment of today, attracting and keeping customers increasingly revolves around an enterprises’ ability to interact with and attract shoppers from across an ever expanding spectrum of contact points. The growing and most dynamic of these are electronically generated. The revolution that has swept through the…