Omnichannel retail allows traditional retailers to connect their existing channels such as brick and mortar or call centers to digital channels - online store, mobile app, social shopping channels and others.
This presentation focuses on how this came to be, what are the bottlenecks in implementing omnichannel retail and why should retailers switch to this new approach.
Probably the most compelling reasons to adapt to omnichannel retailing are today's customer demands. The customer wants 24/7 service and the same experience on all sales channels, whether it is the offline store, the mobile app or the brick and mortar outlet.
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What is Omnichannel Retail? Past. Present. Future.
2. WE LIVE IN A CONNECTED WORLD
A WORLD CONNECTED THROUGH
THE INTERNET AND MOBILE DEVICES:
4. INSTEAD, A NEW
MODEL EMERGES,
COMBINING THE BEST
OF BOTH WORLDS.
THOUGH ECOMMERCE WAS
EXPECTED TO REPLACE
OFFLINE SHOPPING,
THATS PROBABLY NOT
GOING TO HAPPEN.
5. MILLENNIALS PREFER SHOPPING IN STORES AS
OPPOSED TO SHOPPING ONLINE
LETS HAVE A LOOK AT
THE NUMBERS:
Source: "Who are the Millennial shoppers? And what do they really want?" from Outlook 2013, No. 2, an Accenture publication.
7. AND AMAZONS BUSINESS MODEL
SEEMS LIKE A BETTER FIT FOR
GROWTH
Source: http://netonomy.net/2014/06/23/amazon-vs-walmart-comparison-in-one-essential-chart/
9. WELL, CUSTOMERS LIKE TO PURCHASE
IN STORES, BUT THEY DONT ALWAYS
DO THAT.
BORDERS EMPLOYED 19.500 PEOPLE
AND OPERATED 511 SUPERSTORES. IT
FILLED FOR BANKRUPTCY IN 2011.
10. PEOPLE LOVED THE BORDERS
EXPERIENCE, THEY LIKED TO TOUCH
AND BROWSE THE BOOKS
BUT THEN THEY WENT ONLINE AND
PURCHASED ON AMAZON.
Source: http://netonomy.net/2014/02/06/biggest-retailers-closing-stores-important/
12. IN THE FUTURE, THATS
WHAT STORES WILL BE:
SHOWROOMS. PLACES
WHERE CUSTOMERS CAN
EXPERIENCE PRODUCTS
WHICH CAN BE EITHER
PURCHASED IN STORE OR
SHIPPED HOME.
UNTIL THAN,
TRADITIONAL RETAILERS
FACE TODAYS
CHALLENGES:
14. THE COMPANY BUILT THE FIRST WALMART IN 1962 AND
STEADILY DEVELOPED INTO WHAT IT IS TODAY BY OPENING
STORES NEAR ITS CUSTOMERS.
TODAY IT HAS MORE THAN 11.000 STORES, IN 27 COUNTRIES
AND EMPLOYS MORE THAN 2.2 MILLION PEOPLE. THE
COMPANY IS THE BIGGEST RETAILER IN THE WORLD WITH A
REVENUE OF $485 BILLION.
TO SUPPORT THIS GROWTH THEYVE BUILT PROBABLY THE
MOST INNOVATIVE SUPPLY CHAIN IN THE WORLD.
LETS LOOK AT WALMARTS
PHILOSOPHY:
GET CLOSE TO THE
CUSTOMER
16. AND THEN AMAZON CAME
ALONG AND BET ON
DIVERSITY.
PROVIDE THE CUSTOMER
WITH LOTS OF CHOICES
17. Amazon offered more products than any of the typical brick
and mortar stores could, because of the economies they had
NOT actually stocking up on products.
18. NOR DID THEY HAD TO. THEIR BRAND WAS
STRONG, THEY WERE CLOSE TO A LARGE MARKET
AND HAD ADVANTAGES ONLINE PURE PLAYS DID
NOT.
MOST OF THESE HAD TO DO WITH BETTER
PARTNERSHIPS, BETTER SUPPLY CHAINS, A
BETTER DISTRIBUTION POLICY, AND MORE
MONEY TO SPEND ON ADVERTISING AND
MARKETING.
BUT THE LIKES OF
WALMART COULD NOT
JUST CLOSE STORES AND
OPEN ONLINE STORES
ONLY.
19. MOST TRADITIONAL RETAILERS UNDERSTOOD
THE IMPORTANCE OF ECOMMERCE. THEY DID NOT
UNDERSTAND HOW IMPORTANT IS AND HOW TO
MIX IT WITH THE OTHER CHANNELS.
SO THEYVE BUILT ADDITIONAL DIGITAL
CHANNELS ON TOP OF EXISTING STRUCTURES.
KIND OF LIKE THIS:
WHAT THEY DID NOT HAVE
WAS A CLEAR DIGITAL
STRATEGY
20. THE RETAIL SILOS
Brick and
mortar silo
Ecommerce
silo
Social
media silo
Call center
silo
Brand
21. HOW DO CUSTOMERS INTERACT
WITH RETAIL SILOS?
Brick and
mortar silo
Ecommerce
silo
Social
media silo
Call center
silo
Brand
22. THE OFFLINE STORES COMPETED WITH THE ONLINE STORES,
THE ONLINE STORES REFUSED TO IMPLEMENT PICK UP IN
STORES POLICIES AND
≒ EACH HAD ITS OWN INDIVIDUAL INVENTORY
≒ EACH HAD ITS OWN PRODUCT AND CUSTOMER DATABASE
≒ EACH WORKED WITH DIFFERENT MARKETING POLICIES
FOR EXAMPLE IT TOOK WALMART 11 YEARS TO IMPLEMENT A
SITE TO STORE PICK-UP POLICY:
HTTP://NETONOMY.NET/2015/04/22/3-STRATEGY-MISTAKES-BY-BIG-ONLINE-RETAILERS/
THE BIGGEST PROBLEM:
MOST OF THESE SILOS
WORKED INDEPENDENTLY
AND OFTEN, ONE AGAINST
THE OTHER.
23. THE CONCEPT OF
OMNICHANNEL RETAILING
WAS USHERED IN:
IT PROPOSES AN
UNIFICATION OF ALL
SALES CHANNELS IN ONE
SINGLE INTERFACE
AROUND THE CUSTOMER
24. A NEW WORLD MACYS
BET ON OMNICHANNEL
GROW THE BUSINESS
AROUND THE CUSTOMER
47. BIG DATA ANALYTICS /
PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS
By gathering data from
all channels, it systems
will shift from data
gathering and analyzing
to predictive analytics
and prescriptive courses
of action