4 books on Retail Software [PDF]

November 12, 2024

These books are covering popular retail software, inventory management, point-of-sale systems, customer relationship management, e-commerce integration, sales analytics, supply chain management and mobile payment solutions.

1. AI for Retail: A Practical Guide to Modernize Your Retail Business with AI and Automation
2023 by Francois Chaubard



The world of retail has always been a thrilling spectacle of organized chaos, where inventory mysteriously vanishes, customers insist on paying with expired coupons and pricing strategies are roughly as scientific as tossing darts at a wall. AI for Retail: A Practical Guide to Modernize Your Retail Business with AI and Automation is here to change all that—by handing over the reins to artificial intelligence, which, unlike humans, doesn’t take coffee breaks, forget to restock the bestsellers, or mysteriously misplace all the avocados. Written by AI researcher and retail tech CEO Francois Chaubard, this book demystifies how AI can revolutionize inventory management, supply chains, pricing and even loss prevention (because, let’s face it, human loss prevention officers still haven’t figured out how people smuggle entire frozen turkeys out of supermarkets). Covering everything from basic AI principles to deep profit-and-loss analysis, this guide takes you from having no AI strategy at all (beyond hoping for the best) to implementing a full-scale digital brain for your retail empire. If you’ve ever wanted to modernize your retail business, maximize efficiency and possibly impress your board members with phrases like machine learning-driven pricing elasticity, this book is your gateway to a future where AI does the heavy lifting—leaving you free to wonder why customers still leave their shopping carts in the middle of the parking lot.
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2. Retail Management: "Retail Management: Navigating the Path to Success in Modern Retail"
2019 by Prabhu TL



Running a retail business is a bit like steering a massive, unpredictable shopping trolley through a labyrinth of customer expectations, supply chain hiccups and marketing buzzwords—while it’s also on fire. Retail Management: Navigating the Path to Success in Modern Retail is your indispensable survival guide to making sense of this beautifully chaotic world before it steamrolls over you. Covering everything from the dark arts of inventory management (where products seem to vanish into a mysterious void) to the sorcery of omnichannel marketing (convincing customers to buy things they didn’t know they needed across multiple platforms), this book arms you with real-world case studies, retail trends and enough strategic wisdom to avoid common pitfalls—like accidentally stocking 5,000 units of an item no one actually wants. Whether you’re a retail manager, a business owner, a student, or just someone fascinated by why supermarkets rearrange their aisles just when you’ve memorized them, this guide will help you optimize operations, enchant customers and master the delicate balance of making profits without losing your sanity. Retail excellence awaits—provided you can survive the checkout line.
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3. Retail Category Management: Decision Support Systems for Assortment, Shelf Space, Inventory and Price Planning
2011 by Alexander Hübner



Retail category management, for those unfamiliar, is the dark and mysterious art of making sure customers find exactly what they want on the shelf—without causing a black hole in the store’s inventory system or driving the manager into an existential crisis. Retail Category Management: Decision Support Systems for Assortment, Shelf Space, Inventory and Price Planning bravely tackles the seemingly impossible task of keeping both retailers and consumers happy in a world where people expect infinite choices, dirt-cheap prices and fully stocked shelves at all times. This book dives deep into the mathematical wizardry of optimizing product variety, fine-tuning price points and ensuring that your store doesn’t look like a post-apocalyptic wasteland by 3 p.m. Using rigorous quantitative methods (because guessing isn’t a business strategy), it explores everything from assortment and shelf-space planning to inventory and price optimization, all while helping retailers avoid the dreaded moment when a customer angrily demands a product that exists in the system but, mysteriously, not in reality. If you've ever wondered how supermarkets somehow don’t implode under the sheer complexity of it all, this book holds the answers (spoiler: math is involved).
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4. Logistics and Retail Management: Insights Into Current Practice and Trends from Leading Experts
2004 by John Fernie, Leigh Sparks



Logistics is the art of making sure things get from somewhere to somewhere else in the right amount, at the right time, without mysteriously vanishing into the abyss of supply chain chaos. In theory, this should be simple. In reality, it is not. Logistics and Retail Management: Insights Into Current Practice and Trends from Leading Experts is here to help you navigate this perilous world of inventory, supply chains and the baffling mysteries of modern retail logistics—where products either arrive too late, too early, or in quantities that defy all human logic. Over the past decade, logistics has become the unsung hero (or villain) of retail, with businesses scrambling to optimize delivery speeds, keep shelves stocked just enough without tipping into overstocked madness and somehow make e-commerce work without every warehouse collapsing under the weight of bad planning. This book, written by actual experts who have stared into the logistical abyss and survived, covers everything from market trends and supply chain relationships to the peculiar world of temperature-controlled logistics (because no one likes melted ice cream). Whether you're a student, a logistics manager, or just someone who has wondered why your online order takes precisely 12 days no matter what, this book is your definitive guide to making retail logistics slightly less of a disaster.
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