rEtailing Logistics?Adapt, or Perish

By Tatyana Sinioukov

As retail channels constantly evolve to meet consumer demand, so do the logistics systems that support them. As a result, retailers have to adapt accordingly. Question is, how well are they coping?

In its eight year, the 2000 Logistics Study for the Mass Retail Industry

conducted by the International Mass Retail Association with the help of Kurt Salmon Associates, a consulting firm that specializes in providing services to retailers, showed retailers are aware of the pressures dictated by the changing retail environment, and they are inventing new, more efficient logistics strategies to survive.