SAS White Papers for Retail SAS Canada has developed four White Papers for the retail industry that deal with analytic intelligence, RFID, revenue optimization, and performance management.
	2006 Retail Recruitment Survey Canadian Retail Employers Face Serious Hiring Challenges as Skills Shortage Grows Retail sector requires new recruiting strategies Canadian employers face serious new hiring challenges today as labour shortages become more intense. Canada’s retail sector may be among the hardest hit if it cannot find new ways to recruit skilled workers, according to the results of the national 2006 Canadian Retailing Recruitment Survey. Adobe Acrobat File: 236 Kb
	A Retailer’s Guide to the Redundant POS Communications Plus Solution Reliable point-of-sale (POS) solutions, and all associated technology including the supporting network, are critical to the contemporary retailer. A dependable, secure, and efficient network solution is essential to safely and swiftly process sales and increase and maintain the highest solutions of customer care and confidentiality. It also allows inventory management to be optimized. Adobe Acrobat File: 4.2 Mb
	A Retailer’s Guide to Supply Chain Management During the past few decades, retailers have been facing increasing competitive pressures from a number of sources. In a bid to improve profitability and efficiency, retailers are seeking ways to reduce costs, improve efficiency and enhance customer service through efficient supply chain management. However, to manage the supply chain most effectively, retailers must understand exactly what the supply chain encompasses, its key concepts, and common issues and challenges they may face as they implement a workable strategy. Adobe Acrobat File: 0.6 Mb
	A Retailer’s Guide to Outsourcing Opportunities A key weapon in the arsenal of tools and enablers retailers can deploy in becoming more agile, ergo more competitive, is the outsourcing of technology and business process components, such as human resources, call centres and various administrative financial activities. Adobe Acrobat File: 1.6 Mb
	A Retailer’s Guide to JavaPOS Solutions Point-of-sale (POS) systems with their associated devices (i.e. scanners, printers, and signature readers just to name a few) form an integral part of the technology infrastructure underlying the modern retail enterprise. Adobe Acrobat File: 0.4 Mb
	A Retailer’s Guide to Privacy Risk Management Faced with consumer demand for heightened privacy protection, as well as rapidly evolving regulatory efforts in Canada and around the world, leading retailers of all sizes are increasingly viewing privacy protection as a way to enhance stakeholder trust, as well as avoid costs, mitigate risk, improve customer satisfaction, and potentially generate revenues. Adobe Acrobat File: 0.20 Mb