Infor has made generally available the Infor Implementation Accelerator for Fashion.

Hanko Kiessner, chief executive officer of Packsize International LLC, offers a new solution to cutting down on supply-chain waste - tailoring package sizes to fit each individual product being shipped.

The number of retail thieves apprehended annually continues to be about six million, research indicates, but the picture is much worse than that figure suggests. More than 78 percent of shrink is due to shoplifting by customers or retail employees. New products in fast-paced categories such as electronics, perfumes and sportswear being brought to market every year at premium prices are among the most likely to be stolen. Fresh meat remains a high-theft category for supermarkets and hypermarkets.

After a few years of early adopter successes, 2013 will be the year of larger scale adoption of big data technologies, market watchers predict.

Fifty-three percent of industry leaders believe that improving customers' retail experience would be essential to creating a successful mobile payments scheme, according to survey by SAP. The GSMA Mobile World Congress survey is aimed at addressing top issues facing mobile commerce service providers and reflects the sentiments of mobile operators, fixed telecommunication providers, over-the-top (OTT) players and other global mobile industry executives.

DTDC Courier & Cargo, express courier company, launched its specialist logistic company for e-commerce-DotZot. This will become the first India delivery network with a reach of over 8,000 pin codes and 2,300 cities focusing exclusively on the e-retail space.