Top Retail Industry Insights from 2025
As 2025 comes to a close, we’ve looked back at the retail trends that defined the year. From omnichannel transformations to seasonal demand planning, we highlighted insights that helped organizations navigate a changing retail landscape.
Check out our top retail insights from 2025 below.
RETAIL INSIGHTS FROM 2025
SAP’s Retail Industry Solutions
Retailers continue to face increasing pressure to maintain changing customer demands. With SAP’s innovative retail and eCommerce software, retailers can create shopping experiences that delight customers. Learn how SAP’s retail solutions can help your organization in this industry one-pager.
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Getting Started with SAP Promotion Management for Retail (PMR)
Retailers are continually looking for ways to make their promotional efforts more impactful and efficient. With SAP Promotion Management for Retail (PMR), available under SAP CAR, brands can optimize the planning, execution, management, and analysis of promotions.
Whether you're new to SAP or considering exploring a new SAP solution for your promotion strategy, this guide will help you understand how SAP PMR can elevate your efforts.
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How Retailers Can Ensure Omnichannel Fulfillment with SAP
Today’s shoppers expect a fluid and consistent experience, regardless of how they choose to browse, buy, or receive their goods. This is the essence of omnichannel retail, and for retailers to thrive, mastering omnichannel fulfillment is no longer a luxury. Explore how retailers can ensure seamless omnichannel fulfillment with SAP in this post.
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Enabling Retail Digital Transformation with SAP for a Leading Fashion Brand
A leading fashion retail brand across the globe, with operations in 32 countries and annual sales of over $6 billion USD, was looking to capitalize on its reach. To do so, the brand set out to grow one of its brands globally, increase profit margins and revenue across the enterprise, and drive consumer centricity. The company understood that technology would be the key enabler of this transformation. In this case study, we explore how the fashion brand realized its full potential and achieved digital transformation with SAP.
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Approaching Seasonal Demand Planning with SAP for Retailers
For retailers, seasonal peaks, from the back-to-school rush to the holiday surge, often account for a disproportionate share of annual sales and profit, but they also introduce major challenges. Forecasting demand for products that sell intensively over short periods, and then drop off sharply, requires agility and real-time coordination across the business, and traditional planning tools often fall short of this task.
In this post, we dive into why many leading retailers are turning to SAP’s integrated planning solutions to bring more intelligence and speed to their seasonal demand planning.
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