Mastering the Retail Game

Retailers, brands and distributors that work together at better managing returns can reduce how often they happen and how much they cost - not just after the post-holiday returns rush, but all year round. Making the returns process easy also improves consumer loyalty.

Omnichannel sales and strategy are driving the adoption of API in retail. This mode of data transfer has its advantages and is particularly well-suited to the industry. Find out more in this podcast.

Winning in the holiday shopping season can mean the difference between an average year and a smashingly successful year. In this episode, hear industry professionals with varied and deep experience offer advice for having a winning holiday shopping season – this year and into the future.

When you’re thinking about making a change, how do prepare your trading partner community to work within your new environment? This episode explores how and when to engage your trading partners in big change management projects.

Drop shipping programs take careful collaboration, communication and trust between businesses. This episode explores what it takes to start a drop shipping program, as well as offers tips for expanding existing drop shipping programs.

Technology professionals come together for a variety of events and activities to share their knowledge with others in the Minnesota tech community. A number of them are hosted by local non-profit organization Minnestar and SPS Commerce. Hear more in this podcast.

Streamlining item data management is not only achievable, it's quite helpful for retailers, vendors and even the consumer. Find out more in this podcast.

The next episode of Mastering the Retail Game is here, just in time to get you pumped and ready for the holiday shopping season. Every year, retailers and their trading partners revamp their processes, update their technology, open new sales channels and fine tune their strategies. But everything has to be ready to go when […]

Businesses in the retail industry are constantly making improvements, but everything needs to be ready to go when the busiest shopping season of the year rolls around. David Verette explores retail system readiness for the holiday shopping season in this podcast episode.

This year IRCE took place alongside GlobalShop and RFID Journal Live! under the RetailX banner at Chicago’s McCormick Place South. In this episode of Mastering the Retail Game, Tony Thrasher and Matt Brolsma from SPS Commerce share their unique perspectives on the major themes and takeaways of IRCE 2019.

In this episode about transforming vendor meetings, take a deeper dive into how different categories require different types of information to make decisions about what to stock and where.

Wherever you are in the retail supply chain, the relationships and agreements you forge are vital to your business. But buyers and vendors don't have the opportunity to spend a lot of time together – every interaction needs to count.