Fashion
Quick Retailing, the dad or mum firm of Japanese trend chain retailer Uniqlo, is forming a three way partnership with administration consulting agency Accenture to speed up the digital innovation of shopper providers for its clients globally.
Increasing on a long-standing relationship, the 2 corporations will discover methods to increase their collaboration to ship personalised buyer experiences throughout all of Quick Retailing’s retail channels.
Quick Retailing – which has operations throughout Asia, Europe and the USA – owns seven main manufacturers: Uniqlo, GU, Principle, Comptoir des Cotonniers, Helmut Lang, Princesse tam.tam and J Model. To enhance the personalised multi-channel expertise for Quick Retailing’s clients, Accenture will assist the retailer develop new digital enterprise fashions that embed buyer innovation, knowledge analytics and digitised operations in product improvement, merchandising, manufacturing, logistics, advertising, gross sales and customer support. This could allow shoppers to pick, attempt, buy and obtain services anytime and anyplace, which is a key goal of Quick Retailing’s working mannequin.
As a part of the initiative, Accenture will assist Quick Retailing construct a cloud-based know-how platform, together with provide chain and buyer relationship administration techniques, to gather actionable buyer insights that may allow the personalisation of the client expertise. The know-how, together with provide chain and buyer relationship administration methods, will probably be absolutely reworked as a cloud based mostly infrastructure. Accenture Digital will present the digital commerce, mobility and analytics capabilities wanted to rework the client expertise.
Underneath the joint initiative, Accenture may even assist Quick Retailing practice and recruit the expertise mandatory to construct an enhanced buyer expertise staff, looking for candidates with expertise in digital applied sciences together with mobility, analytics and cloud. As well as, the 2 corporations will set up an advisory panel that features main teachers, opinion leaders and start-up corporations to assist form Quick Retailing’s future digital providers for its clients.
“We’re pursuing a coherent technique to determine an revolutionary enterprise scheme that seamlessly combines actual and digital markets and to take the lead within the altering retail business,” stated Tadashi Yanai, Chairman, President and CEO, Quick Retailing.
“By way of this collaborative framework with Accenture, Quick Retailing will globally current and introduce the potential of an revolutionary enterprise mannequin past the retail business and speed up creating the world’s main direct enterprise mannequin. Quick Retailing, partnering with Accenture, will improve retailer technique, create a state-of-the-art provide chain community and develop progressive expertise to satisfy the buyer calls for within the period of digitalisation.”
“Immediately’s retail clients are a formidable pressure with shifting expectations, demanding a seamless expertise – whether or not in shops or on-line – that’s on their phrases. Main retailers know that digital is the important thing to creating the seamless expertise clients need, and we’ll work with Quick Retailing to make sure they’re making sensible funding decisions to create new worth whereas making certain environment friendly and efficient operations throughout their complete organisation,” stated Gianfranco Casati, group chief government, Progress Markets at Accenture.
