Insight Search Search Submit Sort by: Relevance Date Search Sort by Relevance Date Order Asc Desc Resource Guide June 16, 2025 Navigating New Tariffs: Enhance Agility and Confidence Fluctuating tariffs and potential shifts in trade relationships are creating significant challenges for management teams. Companies across industries are pivoting to operate under greater volatility and uncertainty. While the direction, magnitude, and duration of tariffs remain unclear, companies need options and flexibility. Protiviti offers the expertise to help you develop agility and navigate… Survey 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 organizations 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 a… Podcast November 27, 2023 Risky Women Podcast | Strategic Risk Kimberly Dickerson, Executive Vice President - Global Head of Operations and Technology at Protiviti, speaks with Star McDade, Senior Vice President, Audit Services - Staff Agencies, Analytics & Insurance (SA&I) at USAA, about confronting stereotypes by demonstrating the positive influence of risk and assurance professionals, overcoming the challenges in the transformation of auditing… 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,… Load More