Retail Resources

How can retailers mobilize their technological resources to capture emerging growth opportunities while competing in a rapidly changing market landscape. In this e-book, you will learn about a powerful new IT paradigm for retail—a Cloud Services Technology Framework.

Establishing the right ecommerce architecture is critical to ensure digital sales channels can support overall business strategy.  This paper lays out the decision process for ecommerce modernization, including tradeoffs and lessons learned.

Learn that if collected, stored, maintained, and mined with a datadriven culture, well-designed strategies, appropriate governance, and cloudbased technologies, data can become a competitive advantage to connect seemingly unrelated dots, see the unseen, and reveal opportunities long before they become mainstream—to propel your business past your competitors and future-proof your organization.

The future is here, and retailers need to think and act in new ways. AWS and AWS Retail Competency Partners deliver innovative, industry-leading cloud services and solutions to meet today’s consumer expectations, optimize operations, and improve business insights. Best Buy, Petco, Neiman Marcus, Sainsbury’s, Instacart, and Zalando are among the global retailers who are using AWS retail solutions, software, and tools to accelerate innovation and digital transformation.

To thrive in the modern marketplace, retailers need to create an exceptional customer
experience—both online and in the store. While ecommerce soared in popularity during the
pandemic, physical stores still matter, representing roughly 80 percent of all retail sales. This is
because stores remain an experiential destination for shoppers to discover, research, see,
touch, and buy products.

There are several current/new, but not necessarily emerging, technologies that have the potential to greatly impact the entire industry. For each, we are in the early days—yet can already see the potential for retailer adoption. We’ll look at four current technologies, which seem to have decent momentum, and try to understand their potential uses and pitfall in the context of the retail industry.

A MACH architecture, which stands for Microservices based, APIfirst, Cloud-native SaaS and Headless (MACH), gives companies a deeper level of agility—allowing them to deliver new features to their customers at speed. This architecture has spread from ecommerce to store systems and is now fundamentally changing the way retailers assemble commerce solutions.

Personalizing content for online consumers is key to breaking through the noise. Yet brands face challenges that prevent them from providing these seamless, relevant experiences. The result is fractured communications and limited visibility into customer needs. Machine learning enables you to provide customers with relevant recommendations and ultimately improve brand loyalty.

Automated supply chains can deliver enhanced visibility, more accurate demand planning, and improved resilience. Read this ebook to learn how you can turn your supply chain into an intelligent business decision-maker using innovative new technologies like machine learning, blockchain, and other cloud services.

It’s clear that CPG and retail companies need to take a new approach, and not just in reaction to the perfect storm of the pandemic. Integrating autonomous processes into demand planning will be crucial for retail and CPG companies to successfully move into a fast-approaching future.

As grocers look for ways to bring better shopping experiences, data insights, and retail execution to their operations, they are taking advantage of industry-specific innovations in areas like machine learning, personalization, digital commerce platforms, smart devices, and more. Learn how some of the world’s top grocery retailers, like Sainsbury’s, Morrison’s, and Cencosud use AWS and our extensive industry network to support your grocery retail transformation.

Learn how you can bring existing SAP investments to AWS to realize immediate benefits, including reduced infrastructure costs, improved performance, and automation capabilities; innovate by going beyond infrastructure to implement new business capabilities; move to Suite on HANA to realize the in-memory data capabilities while maintaining existing SAP ERP applications.

Are you looking for a fully managed offering to support your path to SAP S/4HANA? Accelerate your ERP transformation while reducing the cost and complexity of maintenance with RISE with SAP on AWS. RISE with SAP is an SAP-managed, single-instance S/4HANA offering, available on your choice of hyperscaler. Download this solution brief to learn why more than 5,000 active AWS customers run SAP on AWS and why you should choose AWS for RISE with SAP.

Learn how machine learning delivers retail innovation for an industry in transition. To meet new trends, overcome challenges, and keep pace with today’s hyper-connected shoppers, the industry is pivoting toward automation and optimization powered by machine learning. Explore how retailers are delivering a fast, frictionless, and engaging omnichannel experience at every step of the shopper journey across key use cases.

Sustainability is a strategic priority for Retail and CPG brands. Companies have debated the environmental and social consequences of economic growth for decades. However, sustainable development practices have only recently risen to the top of the CXO agenda. Read this report to learn more.