Retail Consulting Services

Improving long-term resiliency and your ability to adapt

Retail innovation and transformation has become the imperative for companies that want to remain relevant and competitive. Customer expectations and behaviors are driving incredible change across the retail sector. From the growth of ecommerce to an increased focus on omnichannel, environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues and the supply chain ecosystem, retail organizations face a vast number of challenges and opportunities.

Protiviti helps retail organizations build supply chain resiliency, utilize data analytics to achieve market intelligence, and implement technology solutions and skillsets required for the adoption of new digital technologies — all while helping to meet growing customer and investor expectations around sustainability and social responsibility.

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Executive Perspectives on Top Risks for 2024 and 2034

2024 Top Risks in the Consumer Products and Services Industry

The Consumer Products and Services industry group faces a long list of headwinds heading into 2024. Inflationary pressure, workforce attrition with talent gaps and protecting customers’ data are top on the list of major concerns weighing on the minds of senior executives in the consumer packaged goods (CPG) and retail industry group.

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Digital Transformation

From supporting growth in e-commerce to replacing legacy applications, we assist retailers through every stage of digital transformation to enrich experiences for the customer journey. Through enterprise automation, we work with organizations to reduce operational costs, process times, and manual mistakes.

Supply Chain Management

We help analyze and optimize supply chains, building resilience into your supply chain while lowering costs. We focus on procurement, customs, distribution, and system development, utilizing intelligent automation to transform supply chains.

Payment Solutions

We follow industry trends closely and work with retailers to utilize emerging payment systems while mitigating fraud and managing risks. We help design an infrastructure that supports a secure and seamless omnichannel customer experience.

Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG)

We help develop an ESG strategy and roadmap to meet investor and customer expectations while minimizing negative impacts on the environment. From here, we build systems to monitor sustainability program objectives and to report comprehensively and transparently.

Cloud and Emerging Technologies

Protiviti helps retailers incorporate cloud and other emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), augmented reality (AR), and Internet of Things (IoT), to help scale on-demand, improve resiliency, and deploy solutions rapidly and securely.

Data Privacy and Loyalty Programs

With the fast growth of e-commerce and an expansion of loyalty programs, there has been an increase in concerns over data privacy. We help organizations build, assess, and strengthen data privacy programs and ensure compliance with the growing list of privacy regulations to protect customer trust.

Finance Transformation

We drive retail finance transformation, from assessments through the execution of strategic initiatives to address the challenge now with a focus on the future of the enterprise. We provide solutions tailored to achieve your goals and provide a framework for continuous growth.

Build resiliency. Leverage data analytics. Implement technology solutions.

Retailers

We help retailers including apparel and specialty, food, beverage and tobacco, restaurants and food service, and home furnishings sectors reach customers where they are through business transformation efforts focused on evolving customer needs. We work with retailers to implement tools and technologies, mitigate risk from loyalty programs and payments, and to offer a personalized customer experience.