Cutting-edge technology has left no sector of the economy untouched and is turning out to be one of the biggest drivers of efficiency, customer experience, and profitability. In the last few years, the retail industry has also been experiencing some transformative technological interventions that are reshaping the way business is done. At the very heart… Continue reading 5 Growing Technology Trends Reshaping the Retail Industry
D2C e-commerce is growing faster with increasing penetration of mobile and internet services, and the mushrooming growth of 3PL companies, especially in the urban areas. It offers benefits like cost-cutting, greater control of the supply chain, better quality management, and more efficient returns management. All this requires automated support in terms of inventory storage, order… Continue reading How D2C Brands Scale Exponentially with New-Age Inventory Management & WMS Solution
As more and more people turn to omnichannel shopping, something as simple as maintaining inventory has become more difficult for companies. The silver lining is that along with consumer purchasing preferences, the technology required to conduct an efficient business has also evolved leading to digitization and automation of processes including inventory management. Manual vs Automated… Continue reading The Next Big Thing in Retail: Automation in Inventory Management
Returns aren’t just lost sales, they put customer relationships and inventory investment at risk unless managed accurately. They are an important part of the inventory and should be optimized to promote healthy cash flow. Returns denote friction in the shopping experience and present an opportunity for brands to convert disappointed customers into lifetime buyers. E-commerce… Continue reading The Fair, Flawed, and Fouled E-commerce Returns
Retail started from local stores and expanded nationwide, cross borders, with e-commerce. E-commerce provided a uniform platform business for brands to compete on. The traditional legacy brands, having huge landmark stores and a dedicated customer base, had to wrestle with hip startups that were born in the digital era. As fast-paced technology started transforming the… Continue reading If you are going D2C with Shopify, Scale Faster with Increff
All of us software developers have been using open-source software for many years now. Some of the notable ones (for the Java guys) being: Over the last 4+ years, we at Increff have built a repository of libraries to ease up software development. Slowly it became a dream at Increff to contribute back to the… Continue reading Opening our Libraries on GitHub
Our global fashion industry has been heavily criticized for causing irreparable damage to the environment. A recent study, April 2020, published in the Nature Reviews Earth and Environment, states the annual impact of the fashion industry is over 92 million tonnes of waste and 79 trillion liters of water consumption alongside chemical pollution and CO2 emission.… Continue reading Sustainable Fashion: A fad or the future?
Change is here and INCREFF is leading it.Retail has been an ever-evolving industry that has upgraded and strengthened with each disruptive change. Such disruptions pose multiple challenges with opportunities for innovation. The recent pandemic has not only accelerated digitalization but also exposed system deficiencies, highlighting the need for preparedness and resilience. According to a recent… Continue reading Increff is Gartner Cool Vendor in Retail
