DUBLIN, Ireland--Aug. 31, 2006--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c41463) has announced the addition of the new Datamonitor report "Retail Technology Forging Closer Relationships with Suppliers (Review Report)" to their offering.

The report provides an overview of strategic drivers and trends that retailers must address and highlights areas in which technology vendors can seek to create appropriate entry points when establishing dialogue with potential customers in this space. Data showcasing relevant data from the evolving interactive model for this research stream is included.

Scope of this title:

-- Market Focus - Assessment of the background drivers and challenges facing retailers

-- Technology focus - analysis of possible future scenarios driven by mutual gain and collaboration

-- Quantification - data sets provide IT vendors with global, regional and country specific insight into 4 software markets relevant to this theme

Highlights of this title:

-- Proliferation of information fuels consumer demand and fickle consumers dictate a need for flexible relationships which impact the demands placed on suppliers by retailers. Our research shows that far from being adversarial, retailer-supplier activities in 2006 hint at important and widespread development in the future.

-- The Extended Retail Industry (ERI) provides a way of thinking that will drive IT strategies in the future and foster improve, collaborative relationships based around real time data and business intelligence

Reasons to order your copy:

-- At a market focus level the report addresses issues which have combined to create the challenging retail landscape

-- At a technology and strategic level the report explores options open to retailers and their business partners from a collaborative point of view

-- The discussion and analysis is backed up with data sets (SRM, PRM customer and supply chain analytics) which are central to collaborative relationships

Summary:

-- More than 50 large multinational companies are owners and users of Transora, including Unilever, Kraft, Pepsi, Coca-Cola, Mars, Kelloggs, Danone, Procter & Gamble, and Bush Brothers. Operating in 7 languages, Transora has interoperability projects underway with CPGmarket and GlobalNetXchange (GNX). Transora customers include GS1 (4) Member Organizations, Manufacturers, and Retailers of all sizes. The e-market was launched in 2000 in Chicago and has offices in Brazil, Mexico, France, and the United Kingdom. On May 13th 2005, Transora and UCCnet agreed to form a single organization that can more effectively serve companies seeking to realize the value of data synchronization.

-- Fickle consumers dictate a need for flexible relationships

-- Private labels focus on lowest cost provision but can also mean less loyalty to suppliers

-- Has mutual collaboration been sacrificed for margin? It may look that way, but only because demand or need always precedes the solution

-- Perhaps mutual convenience is NOT dead, as Our research demonstrates

-- Retailer-supplier activities in 2006 hint at widespread implications for the future

-- External collaboration: For EMEA retailers it didnt seem a high priority in 2004/5

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