What Makes Emperor Tick?
What makes Emperor tick? China’s economy is growing at double-digit speed. With its middle classes on the rise too, more consumers have started to invest in watches from companies like Patek Philippe...
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Fashion and Technology Go Hand in Hand at London Fashion Week
This year's London Fashion Week (LFW) showed that designers have truly embraced the digital age, with iconic brands such as Burberry Prosum and TopShop streaming their shows online – allowing shoppers...
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Milan Fashion Week: Classic Designers Show Their Power Over Social Media
September's Milan Fashion Week (MFW) was where all the classic Italian designers came out to parade their collections for Spring/Summer 2015 (SS2015). This was a week where big brand names like Armani,...
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STEM Workers Earn 26% More – Women Leaders Should Take Notice
Would you be surprised if I told you that the percentage of high school students reporting computer literacy has been declining since 1999? According to the National Center for Women & Information...
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Fashion Brands Use The Celebrity Power of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West at...
Paris Fashion Week (PFW) has an iconic place in the international clothing trade show calendar, with catwalk shows held in historic venues such as the Louvre and Grand Palais. PFW brings the curtain...
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SAP Retail Forum 2014 Recap (#SAPRF14)
On October 7th and 8th the 2014 SAP Retail Forum was held at the historic Waldorf Astoria in New York City. Over the two days, SAP and its partners offered attendees informative design thinking...
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SAP Retail Forum - Oct 7-8 NYC - Impressions
This year, in January, I attended to the NRF (NRF Retail Big Show 2014). It is possibly the largest Retail focused event in North America. Even though it is a technology agnostic event (it should be as...
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Mercedes-Benz Fashion Weeks Social Analytics Wrap-Up Report
The fashion weeks in New York, London, Milan and Paris are the most prominent industry events in the world, allowing brands and designers to show buyers, media and general public (shows are often...
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The Next Big Thing Is The Internet of Things
OK, so it might not be breaking news, but while the Internet of Things (IoT) has been talked about for a while, it’s genuinely starting to hit a tipping point in relation to its impact in the retail...
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Create Generic and Variants Using LSMW
Article Master – LSMW – Generic/Variants - ARTMAS05This subject raised a few questions in an SCN thread with the title of Error while trying to create Generic Articles with variants using LSMW...
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Smart Recommendations for GTM Trading Expense
Smart Recommendations for GTM Trading Expense This is the continuation of the blog posted by Sudhir Verma on Jul 3, 2012...
View ArticleEngage Stores Associates with Game Dynamics-Part 1
Retail industry is undergoing unprecedented change. Demographic changes, technological advancements and new business models from aggregators like Amazon, Alibaba and eBay are disrupting retail setup...
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Connecting Sports Teams and Retailers
If you are a retailer attending NRF's Annual Conference this January, and also claim to be a sports fan (or even fanatic), smile! Execs from the NFL, NHL, NBA, WTA, and Germany's World Cup team will be...
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Engage Stores Associates with Game Dynamics- Part 2
In my last blog, I discussed why companies need to engage Store Managers and Associates with Game Dynamics and how a custom solution can help solve the issues. In this blog, I will discuss some of the...
View ArticleWorld-class Sports and Retail - it’s all about understanding your fans and...
On Sunday January 11 at 9.00 am Pat Bakey, Global General Manager Consumer Industries of SAP will open the 104th Annual Retail Convention and Expo in the Javits Center in New York with a view on what...
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Brand to Fan - What Retailers can learn from top sports experiences to turn...
On Sunday January 11 Pat Bakey, Global General Manager Consumer Industries of SAP has opened the 104th Annual Retail Convention and Expo in the Jacobs Javits Center in New York with the session Game...
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A Recap of #NRF15: Complex Retail Trends, One Simple Question
It’s only January, but industry insiders are already buzzing about the latest innovations coming out of CES and, most recently, NRF’s BIG Show 2015 in New York City. If you followed these events, like...
View ArticleSAP CAR (Customer Activity Repository 2.0) powered by HANA
SAP Customer Activity Repository is a foundation that collects transactional data that was previously spread over multiple independent applications in diverse formats. The repository provides a common...
View ArticleStore Cluster Analysis using R powered by HANA - prototype
Store Cluster Analysis giving retailers insight into the optimal number of zones, and will align your retail stores to the appropriate zones. This is a minor attempt with R Powered by Hana.What is R?...
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Integrating SAP Customer Activity Repository with a Third-Party ERP System
The initial release of SAP Customer Activity Repository required the presence of a source SAP ERP system to provide master data, multichannel transactions, and inventory data. As of SAP Customer...
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