Category: E-Commerce
E-Commerce market research reports by IDC
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The Future of B2B Digital Payments: Virtual Cards and Real-Time Payments Offer Speed, Convenience, and Security
The Future of B2B Digital Payments: Virtual Cards and Real-Time Payments Offer Speed, Convenience, and Security This IDC Perspective provides insight into the current trends and future of B2B digital payment management. As virtual cards, real-time payments, and even cryptocurrency grow in popularit ... Read More
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Channel Partner Participation in the Cloud Supply Chain in the United Arab Emirates, 2023
Channel Partner Participation in the Cloud Supply Chain in the United Arab Emirates, 2023 This Market Perspective looks in detail at cloud-related developments in the channel partner ecosystem in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). It provides a perspective on the market opportunity for cloud and highli ... Read More
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Buyer Case Study: Zuellig Pharma Builds a Blockchain-Powered Trustworthy Supply Chain
Buyer Case Study: Zuellig Pharma Builds a Blockchain-Powered Trustworthy Supply Chain This IDC Perspective selects a case study approach to highlight a blockchain implementation story that has moved beyond the traditional confines of a "pilot." In fact, Web3 and blockchain have attracted the imagina ... Read More
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Future of Digital Innovation and DevSecOps: Understanding and Securing the Attack Vectors of the Modern Software Supply Chain
Future of Digital Innovation and DevSecOps: Understanding and Securing the Attack Vectors of the Modern Software Supply Chain This IDC Perspective provides insights into the various dimensions of the software supply chain that can be attacked by bad actors, with actionable insight into practices and ... Read More
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Dusting Off Vendor-Managed Inventory for 2023
Dusting Off Vendor-Managed Inventory for 2023 This IDC Market Perspective discusses vendor-managed inventory (VMI)."We examine the role for VMI in a modern supply chain and whether more modern tools and better and more completely available data mean that what was aspirational back in 1995 is practic ... Read More
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The "Inverted Perspective" Approach in the Retail Value Chain
The "Inverted Perspective" Approach in the Retail Value Chain This IDC Perspective proposes additional models and approaches to retail companies in defining and managing internal processes throughout the entire retail value chain. As operational efficiency is a relevant priority and challenge for re ... Read More
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PLM Priorities for Large Product Manufacturers — Analysis of Projects from Systems Integrators and Strategic Consultants
PLM Priorities for Large Product Manufacturers — Analysis of Projects from Systems Integrators and Strategic Consultants This IDC Perspective analyzes and highlights digital transformation projects for PLM completed by systems integrators and strategic consultants over a three-year period. Projects ... Read More
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Operationalizing SBOMs to Secure Your Software Supply Chain
Operationalizing SBOMs to Secure Your Software Supply Chain This IDC Perspective presents the challenges around operationalizing software bill of materials (SBOMs) that organizations face and that are impeding broader adoption. Frameworks, open source projects, and commercial products looking to add ... Read More
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What Comes After Integrated Business Planning?
What Comes After Integrated Business Planning? This IDC Market Perspective provides insights into the three developments in enterprise planning and execution that are setting the stage for what comes after integrated business planning (IBP). In detail:First: Enterprises have been on a maturity journ ... Read More
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The Emerging Role of the Hyperscalers in Supply Chain
The Emerging Role of the Hyperscalers in Supply Chain This IDC Market Perspective discusses the emerging role of hyperscalers in supply chain. Supply chains in every industry, geography, and size all require integration of data across multiple transactional areas and advanced analytics using that da ... Read More
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Reimagining Approaches to B2B Integration to Support the Future of Industry Ecosystems
Reimagining Approaches to B2B Integration to Support the Future of Industry Ecosystems This IDC Perspective investigates how modernizing B2B is essential to both a broader automation strategy and a broader ecosystem integration strategy. It discusses the need to integrate within industry ecosystems, ... Read More
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B2B Digital Payment Management
B2B Digital Payment Management This IDC Perspective provides insights into B2B digital payment management. While the B2C sphere has converted to digital payment management relatively seamlessly, B2B is still slow to adopt modernized processes in payment management solutions. As the digital finance t ... Read More
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The German Supply Chain Act: An Indication of What's to Come with Social Sustainability
The German Supply Chain Act: An Indication of What's to Come with Social Sustainability This IDC Market Note explores the context for creating and enacting the German Supply Chain Act, which other governments are following suit, and what this may mean for businesses and IT vendors. Modern slavery an ... Read More
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The Utility of ChatGPT in the Supply Chain
The Utility of ChatGPT in the Supply Chain This IDC Market Perspective examines the impact potential for ChatGPT in the supply chain. "IDC believes we are seeing the birth of a powerful tool that can be used professionally. The free-access version of ChatGPT democratizes the information that's avail ... Read More
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Operationalizing Sustainability in the End-to-End Retail Supply Chain
Operationalizing Sustainability in the End-to-End Retail Supply Chain This IDC Perspective details how supply chain constraints, labor shortages, shifts in consumer demand, increasingly high costs of fulfillment, and rising macroeconomic concerns (around inflation, geopolitics, energy consumption, ... Read More
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IDC PeerScape: Digital Platform Practices in the China Manufacturing Industry
IDC PeerScape: Digital Platform Practices in the China Manufacturing Industry This IDC PeerScape cites and introduces many common challenges facing enterprises in industries, such as large-scale traditional equipment manufacturing and iron and steel smelting, in the construction of informatization s ... Read More
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Key Takeaways from NRF 2023 on Payments Transformation in Retail
Key Takeaways from NRF 2023 on Payments Transformation in Retail This IDC Perspective discusses key takeaways from NRF 2023 on payments transformation in retail. NRF 2023 highlighted the impact of the growing strategic importance of omni-channel payments in retail point of sale (POS) with both paym ... Read More
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Balancing Resiliency with Efficiency in the Supply Chain — The C-Suite Perspective
Balancing Resiliency with Efficiency in the Supply Chain — The C-Suite Perspective This IDC Market Perspective looks at the importance of balancing supply chain resiliency with efficiency. "Although resiliency as a top priority is a relatively recent development, largely as a consequence of the broa ... Read More
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AWS Reinventing Itself at re:Invent — Accelerating the Business Value–Based Strategy
AWS Reinventing Itself at re:Invent — Accelerating the Business Value–Based Strategy This IDC Market Perspective provides highlights from AWS' signature global event re:Invent, which recently took place in Las Vegas and attracted more than 50 000 attendees from across the world. Due to the COVID-19 ... Read More
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Mini-Bids and Market Indexing: Strategies for Contracting Logistics Services
Mini-Bids and Market Indexing: Strategies for Contracting Logistics Services This IDC Perspective examines strategies for contracting transportation services across global logistics networks to address shortcomings of traditional approaches that have been exposed as insufficient in the face of disru ... Read More
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Telcos in the Metaverse Era
Telcos in the Metaverse Era This IDC Market Perspective explores the many definitions of the metaverse with a deep dive on how the telco industry engages with the metaverse. The report also introduces the IDC Metaverse Value Chain Framework. From this, it analyzes the different activities and initia ... Read More
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European Supply Chain Management Applications Forecast, 2022–2026
European Supply Chain Management Applications Forecast, 2022–2026 This IDC Market Forecast analyzes and sizes Europe's supply chain management applications market for 2019-2021 and features a 2022-2026 forecast. IDC assesses Europe's supply chain management applications market by functional segment ... Read More
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Salesforce Vendor Profile — How Salesforce Engages with Digital-Native Businesses and Accelerates Growth
Salesforce Vendor Profile — How Salesforce Engages with Digital-Native Businesses and Accelerates Growth This IDC Vendor Profile covers a vendor's digital-native, start-up, and scale-up engagement models from three different perspectives: its corporate venture arm, the partner perspective, and the c ... Read More
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IDC Buyer Case Study: The Role of IT in Doctolib's Success as a Digital-Native Business
IDC Buyer Case Study: The Role of IT in Doctolib's Success as a Digital-Native Business This IDC Perspective discusses how Doctolib, a European Health unicorn, has used IT to help grow its business. It discusses Doctolib's journey to growth, and how its IT strategy has evolved over that journey. It ... Read More
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Telco OSS/BSS Strategies to Improve CX Beyond Digital-First Investments
Telco OSS/BSS Strategies to Improve CX Beyond Digital-First Investments This IDC Market Perspective covers OSS/BSS investments that telcos are making across 2022 and 2023 to improve their customer experience and drive better customer outcomes. It also highlights the storytelling required to make CSP ... Read More