Online Retail Sales Enjoy Record 2020 While Fashion and Footwear Take Hard Hits
Online retail sales continued on their upward trajectory after its impressive November performance, maintaining a 37% year-on-year high. Differing Fortunes According to the latest data provided by IMRG Capgemini Online Retail Index, the numbers are a thirteen-year-high as it is the highest annual growth witnessed since 2007, making the past year “a standout year in e-commerce.” On the other hand, dwindling levels of social interaction throughout the past year saw falling numbers in sales of clothing and footwear. December clothing sales of +3.2% year-on-year failed to raise the yearly figure of just +1.3%, down from 8.2% in 2019. The hardest hit was footwear, which experienced a steep decline of -5% year-on-year in December and -10.8% overall in 2020. The margin between...
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Unlocking The Power Of Document Management For Seamless Order Processing
Orders are moving faster, and customer tolerance for delays is shrinking, as same day shipping, real time tracking and instant refunds reshape expectations across retail, manufacturing and B2B services. Yet inside many firms, the paperwork behind each transaction still crawls through inboxes, shared drives and printed folders, leaving teams to chase approvals, retype data and guess which version is final. The result is measurable: higher processing costs, longer cycle times and more errors that surface only when a shipment fails or an invoice is disputed. Document management, once treated as...
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Unlocking The Power Of Document Management For Seamless Order Processing
Orders are moving faster, and customer tolerance for delays is shrinking, as same day shipping, real time tracking and instant refunds reshape expectations across retail, manufacturing and B2B services. Yet inside many firms, the paperwork behind each transaction still crawls through inboxes, shared drives and printed folders, leaving teams to chase approvals, retype data and guess which version is final. The result is measurable: higher processing costs, longer cycle times and more errors that surface only when a shipment fails or an invoice is disputed. Document management, once treated as...
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Unlocking The Power Of Document Management For Seamless Order Processing
Orders are moving faster, and customer tolerance for delays is shrinking, as same day shipping, real time tracking and instant refunds reshape expectations across retail, manufacturing and B2B services. Yet inside many firms, the paperwork behind each transaction still crawls through inboxes, shared drives and printed folders, leaving teams to chase approvals, retype data and guess which version is final. The result is measurable: higher processing costs, longer cycle times and more errors that surface only when a shipment fails or an invoice is disputed. Document management, once treated as...
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