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    April 17, 2025
    CPG and retail risk insights
    With the ongoing chaos of recent U.S. trade policies unsettling the global economy, retailers and CPG companies fear that tariffs, or even the threat of them, may cause inflation, reduced consumer spending, and a global recession. Long-term planning, strategic investments, and recruitment are the chief concerns for retail and CPG leaders, according to Protiviti's latest Executive Perspectives on…

  • Flash Report

    April 30, 2025
    Trump 2.0: The First 100 Days – A Look at Industry Winners and Losers
    When Donald Trump took office on January 20 as the 47th President of the United States, U.S. chief executive officers (CEOs) were looking forward to 2025 with renewed optimism based on the expectation that business conditions would improve.  That sentiment was prevalent notwithstanding cautions from notable economists that the strategies of a second Trump administration might keep interest…

  • Client Story

    January 31, 2022
    Client story: Apparel company's 'Instagram project'
    Apparel company enhances key processes, customer experience using insights from shoppers’ digital sentimentsBusinesses generate vast amounts of data every single day, mostly so-called dark data or information that go unused. Long before the current pandemic-driven e-commerce boom, a search technology firm estimated that 7.5 septillion gigabytes of data were generated by businesses worldwide each…

  • Client Story

    March 17, 2021
    Financial lender and co-op owner get a fresh start with an integrated CRM solution
    The impending retirements of two key executives would constitute a significant disruption for any enterprise. It’s even more disruptive when the business’s legacy customer relationship management (CRM) system was home-built by the departing CIO, and other legacy systems split customer data into separate collections. Under such circumstances, a few agile interventions might be called for. As with…

  • Client Story

    March 15, 2021
    National Vision Sees Financial Reporting Clearly with SAP Business Planning and Consolidation and SAP Analytics Cloud
    National Vision, a leader in the U.S. optical industry, is a retailer that has seen tremendous growth since it was founded in 1990. National Vision turned to Protiviti, its long-standing partner, to extend the capabilities of SAP Business Planning and Consolidation, its full financial reporting, budgeting and forecasting tool, with SAP Analytics Cloud for planning. National Vision is one of the…

  • Client Story

    May 12, 2022
    A National Retailer Takes on Inventory Shrink to Improve Margins
    Protiviti created a transparent end-to-end process flow by identifying gaps and providing recommendations for improvement and savings. A data deep dive reviewed elements of sales, markdowns and shrink data and a statistical analyses of shrink, damages and manual markdowns provided a total loss calculation.

  • Podcast

    June 7, 2024
    Podcast | Strategic Sourcing: Gaining Advantage, Mitigating Risk – with Lucas Manganaro
    Supply chain management continues to be a hot topic in countless organisations in light of ongoing geopolitical challenges, evolving impacts of climate change, new tariffs, changing labor markets, and much more. How can supply chain and procurement leaders attack these and other challenges? It starts with building and implementing a strategic sourcing strategy.  Protiviti recently published…

  • Whitepaper

    September 16, 2020
    Strategies for Reducing Retail Shrink During Challenging Times
    Shrink has long represented a significant challenge for retailers. Unfortunately, during a time of tightening margins and declining sales, the issue shows no signs of withering away. According to the 2020 National Retail Security Survey of the National Retail Federation (NRF), shrink is at an all-time high. In 2019, it accounted for an average rate of 1.62% of inventory, calculated at retail,…

  • Whitepaper

    December 2, 2021
    Buy Now, Pay Later...and Gear Up for More Regulation
    First there were layaways. Conjured during the Great Depression when people were struggling to make ends meet, layaways allowed people to buy big-ticket items and pay in installments before walking away with their product. Layaways were especially popular around the holidays when many people reserved all their gifts in advance and started saving for them through a layaway programme. Then came the…

  • Client Story

    July 31, 2026
    Pet Health Retailer’s Fast-Track to SAP Cloud ERP
    Expanding its brands, SKUs and channels, this leading pet pharmacy and supplies retailer, needed to elevate operational efficiency and customer experience with a modern ERP environment. Protiviti deployed SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud which was chosen for its scalability, embedded native AI functionality and rapid update cadence.
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