Marketing And Supply Chain Operations

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Years ago, most people thought that it would remain impossible to click a button and place an order to buy something. Today about “195 million online American consumers” order take-out, book hotels, flights or even grocery shop (Weinstein 1). Many people can pay bills and transfer money to other people through a click of a button on their smartphone. 100,000 online consumers took a survey to reveal that most people preferred online shopping than physical shopping. 73% said it “[was] time saving” and also 58% of those people said they “liked it more because there were no crowds or lines.”(Weinstein 2). Consumers care more about the time used up than going to the store to look and try out the product in person. The internet offers a huge amount of choice and diversity in how people want to do things. But with the majority favoring online shopping, it just shows the laziness of our

On the other hand, a online retail store in comparison to a retail store provide new values to their marketing system. Businesses like Scorptec offer values to their customers in different methods. The most simplistic value they offer is reduced prices of their products attracting customers. The reasoning behind reduced costs of goods is because the handling cost have reached minimal amounts in parallel to retail stores. Online retailers require only a storage warehouse to contain their products and dispatch them when they are required. This is managed by inventory control to ensure that products are available for sale when needed without overstocking on the product. The prime function of managing an online retail is that the business doesn’t require shipping products to independent intermediaries. This makes time and concentration more available on creating an improved product without the need to consistently dispatch products to outlets but simply

Consumer today have a different expectation than a decade ago. Consequently, I believed if a Retailer want to be survive and thrive in the hostility of the today’s market, they must focus on all four of competitive priorities such as cost, quality, time, flexibility.

The competition has changed over the years from direct retailing; we are no longer in the age when there were sales people that had to go door to door, office to office and having home sales. Now a day’s people are using the internet to do most of their shopping. Customer expects to get the same service they would receive if they were in the stores as they would receive if they were shopping online. Companies are coming up with new ways every day to get their product out to the customers. It all balls down to the retailer keeping up with the demands of the consumer, who want things done in a simple and easy way, without leaving their homes or offices. There are so many avenues the retail has to consider to reach the consumer in this age, shopping on the internet, mobile shopping, direct mail, and catalogs. The marketing efforts by companies clearly show that each company aims toward a different audience.

Omnichanneling is a way to advertise the brand or stores to customers by using multiple channels such as social media, retail stores, magazine, mobile app, etc (GWL Realty Advisors, 2015).In the past, the technology was not developed enough that people had to go to the retail store to buy something and look what products are on sale. However, nowdays, customers want more from the retailers such as loyalty program, mobile-app, more payment methods, etc. Most of the retailers did not focus on the omnichanneling in the past so they do not know how to succeed by omnichanneling. According to GWL Realty Advisors (2015), retailers can succeed through omnichanneling by analyzing following factors.

According to A.T. Kearney (2013), the result from online study of 3,200 U.S. and UK customers found that customers spend a large proportion of time inside the brick-and-mortar channel with 61%. The following channels are shopping online and mobile channel, with 31% and 4% respectively (Appendix 1). This figure means that traditional stores persist at the center of retailers’ relationships with customers, although nowadays Omnichannel as online and mobile strategy can help retailer remaining in the market. Therefore, retailers should find a solution that influence to stores and store networks to keep stores at the heart of the customer relationship while managing value across new channels. In addition, the

The Internet has changed the way we do virtually everything, including the way we shop. However, shopping is not the only thing that has changed. In the last decade we have changed the way, we apply for loans, study, and even plan a vacation. Doing any of these things would have been impossible a few decades ago. At present, online banking, paying bills, ordering new services, and shopping online have become part of our daily lives. Traditional brick-and-mortar stores have been around much longer than online stores, but we cannot deny that online shopping is giving the traditional stores competition. Many consumers still choose to shop at regular brick-and-mortar stores because they like to see and

We all know that shopping at stores requires us to go to mall or department stores in buying supplies and spend our money. Now we live in the age of internet and buying things can now be done by clicking a mouse. Because of the numerous benefits of shopping online more and more people these days prefer online shopping over conventional shopping. But which one gives us the best benefits? Our discussion centered on three differences between shopping at stores and shopping online.

Opening a physical store will help create an omni-channel for BoJ, with the option given to their customers to shop from any of the channels that is to their liking. An omni-channel is an improvement

This paper concentrates on various challenges faced by retailers in implementing the Omnichannel and strategies implemented by them to achieve highest customer satisfaction. Also this research paper talks about future outlook for the Omnichannel retailing in terms of challenges and opportunities for the players in this industry.

The company is well aware of the factors driving this change in the market related to the advancement of technology pertaining to online mobile applications for smart phone and tablets, and internet access. The improved economy adds further value increasing disposable income, consumer confidence and spending. The retailing market and consumer trends following this trend are expected to see more sales as internet access become more available and part of consumer’s daily functions.

Furthermore, they offer to the customer the experience to buy in a physical store, compared with Amazon that is one of the strongest competitor, there’s no doubt that the internet, and the mobile web in particular, have changed the way people shop, but there is strong evidence that consumers continue to value the experience of

In addition to the low-price strategy, retailers can provide better services to differentiate themselves from online retailers to gain competitive advantages. In comparison with the online retailers, traditional retailers have the advantages of having the physical stores, and they can use better people, process, and physical evidence to attract consumers. Concerning people, retailers should increase the customer services provided by employees and use the warm services offered to attract consumers. Necessary training can be provided to people to enhance their abilities to manage beneficial relations with consumers (Nell & Wiid, 2014). Moreover, from the perspective of processes, the retailers can build attractive service process from

The research dissertation that is proposed throughout this paper brings an indication towards the topic of multichannel enhancement. The topic has seen a major shift in how consumers are using the multichannel environment to purchase more and more than ever before (Jones, 2013). The retail environment has evolved with this consumer shift, in becoming more dynamic towards the customer’s needs and creating a more customised channel (Whitler, 2016). A personal interest comes towards this topic from my involvement in retail over the past five years, experiencing this retail evolvement first hand.