The Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA), the US trade association for leading retailers, has entered into a joint venture with Smarter Sorting, a start-up of machine-based platform automating decision making for unsalable items.
This partnership aims to connect retailers with artificial intelligence-based environmental compliance technology.
As a part of the collaboration, RILA and Smarter Sorting will co-host a summit on customised cutting-edge compliance, with retailers across the country in the coming year.
Today sustainability is the major concern for the retailers, and businesses around the globe are looking for innovative technology solutions that can help make environmental compliance operations more effective making them achieve larger company sustainability goals.
Further on the partnership, Tiffin Shewmake, Vice President and Executive Director, RILA’s Retail Compliance Center, stated “We’re enthusiastic about this partnership with Smarter Sorting, which helps retailers with sustainable solutions, and we look forward to moving the industry forward in this area together.”
“As a startup committed to advancing retail sustainability, Smarter Sorting is thrilled to partner with RILA to launch the first-ever Innovation in Action Retail Summit. Our goal is to create a space where retailers can explore new technologies like machine learning to tackle their most vexing compliance problems while advancing their zero waste goals,” said Chris Ripley, CEO, Smarter Sorting.
The announcement comes as RILA prepares to hold an annual meeting of retail environmental compliance and sustainability practitioners hosted by the University of Texas at Austin, which will include representatives from Smarter Sorting, as well as Austin Mayor Steve Adler, in a celebration of the city’s growing tech scene.
Smart Sorting machine learning platform helps the retailers make data-driven, automated decisions regarding all the unsold, damaged or returned items. This platform also provides real-time transparency for compliance programmes and helps limit waste cost business-wide.
