“The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing teams.”
-Agile Manifesto Principle
Any practitioner, who got burnt with the Big Design Up Front (BDUF) approach will attest to how important and useful this principle is. However, sometimes this leads to a naïve understanding that the iterative approach is somehow at odds with the “architecture”.
Retail has undergone a significant transformation with businesses putting customers at the epicenter of the shopping experience. For a long time, businesses in this space relied on the winning formula of speed, convenience, relevancy, and product availability. However, to keep up with the rapid pace of change over the last year, companies that relied on traditional sales channels had to deal with a host of new challenges and restricted opportunities, pushing many of them towards direct-to-consumer eCommerce.
Because of an increasingly complex supply chain, finance and supply managers in manufacturing and retail organizations face significant challenges finding and maintaining accurate inventory and delivery information. With important product information locked away in specific information systems, managers can’t easily determine item availability or report customer demand.
The spreadsheet-based manual forecasting approach that is still used in many retail organizations is not suitable for staying ahead of the competition and improving their bottom line. Manual adjustments of forecasts in this method leave all inventory spend decisions to human judgement, which pushes towards generalized decisions rather than going with product, vendor, and market-specific indicators.
Communication with suppliers, vendors, and other trading partners is an essential aspect of commerce, and electronic data interchange (EDI) is a very common set of standards that enhances and expedites partner communication. If you don’t use EDI or a similar digital solution for sharing information across your supply chain, then your organization’s supply chain isn’t operating at peak efficiency, and you should look for a suitable solution right away.
Cloud adoption has seen an exponential rise and companies are evaluating what applications can be shifted to the cloud, including their ERP systems. Cloud ERPs have proven to be the way to go for forward-thinking organizations because of their flexibility, cost-effectiveness, and integration capabilities.
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Today’s IT teams thrive in dynamic environments leveraging agile methodologies, continuous integration/continuous delivery, and distributed services across the multi-cloud realm. With a sprawl of microservices and containers, and increased release velocity, it becomes impossible for the human eye to cope with the complexity that defines these environments. The increasingly digital landscape of today stipulates a seamless user experience, demanding IT and DevOps teams to resolve issues before they escalate.
Companies around the globe are constantly upgrading their marketing tactics to keep their consumers engaged. Traditional marketing has ceased to be effective as it tends to be time-consuming, inefficient, and impersonal. Instead, marketing automation is now the talk of the town that automates marketing tasks while enabling a personalized approach that boosts engagement, along with adding to the overall efficiency and increasing ROI simultaneously.
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