Retalon

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Whether losing sales to out-of-stocks, or facing overstocking costs and markdowns, inefficient stock replenishment has a huge impact on a retailer’s GMROI. Stock replenishment is the process of ordering and allocating inventory to replace missing products on store shelves. So, how are retailers managing stock replenishment today?

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Retalon

JANUARY 7, 2021

With seasonal product life-cycles becoming ever shorter, retailers need more strategic and granular ways to plan their seasonal assortments so they can maximize revenue while minimizing markdowns. Account for more variables in your seasonal merchandise planning. This is most obvious when a promotion doesn’t take inventory into account.

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Retalon

OCTOBER 8, 2020

More expensive than real estate, merchandising, or even labor — inventory is the largest investment your company makes. But getting the biggest return on that investment, especially in today’s tough retail environment, requires a more nuanced, data-driven approach to inventory management than most retailers are used to.

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Retalon

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Often resulting in inventory distortion that lead to lost sales and costly markdowns. Traditional analytics relies too much on past sales to plan and manage inventory. For instance, many retailers run promotions while lacking integration between promotion and inventory management processes.

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Retalon

APRIL 26, 2021

Product clustering (or grouping) is an increasingly common technique that leading retailers use to manage their planning, inventory, pricing, promotions, and markdowns. Most commonly, retailers use geographical clusters to better account for demographics, distribution cost, climate, and other relevant factors to their business.

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Retalon

JULY 28, 2021

Simply put, seasonal demand forecasting is a type of advanced demand forecasting that takes into account the many complex variables of predicting the performance of seasonal products (non-evergreen products). Retailers either lose sales and customer satisfaction due to inventory shortages or face drastic and expensive markdowns.

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Retalon

JULY 28, 2021

Simply put, seasonal demand forecasting is a type of advanced demand forecasting that takes into account the many complex variables of predicting the performance of seasonal products (non-evergreen products). Retailers either lose sales and customer satisfaction due to inventory shortages or face drastic and expensive markdowns.

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Retalon

JUNE 18, 2019

The math needed to account for these effects is hard enough. Keep in mind that promotions are not the same part of a product’s pricing lifecycle as Markdowns. In contrast, markdowns are permanent changes designed to clear inventories at the season’s end. All this down to the Store/SKU level. appeared first on Retalon.

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Retalon

JANUARY 5, 2021

Most of today’s inventory management issues start at the level of forecasting. For example, legacy forecasting methods fail to account for the fact that new products in an assortment will inevitably impact sales of older products.

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Retalon

JUNE 18, 2019

The math needed to account for these effects is hard enough. Keep in mind that promotions are not the same part of a product’s pricing lifecycle as Markdowns. In contrast, markdowns are permanent changes designed to clear inventories at the season’s end. All this down to the Store/SKU level.

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Retalon

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

The result of unreliable projections are inventory imbalances: mistakes in planning, purchasing, and inventory management, resulting in inventory levels that don’t match actual demand. Each year, inventory imbalances cost retailers an estimated $1.1 trillion annually. Key Takeaways.

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Retalon

MARCH 4, 2019

Inventory Management. Traditional inventory management is fragmented silo work that doesn’t take other processes into account. Things are done retroactively or not at all, and any changes made tend to be at a category level, not a SKU level, leading to lost sales and unnecessary markdowns.

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Retalon

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

The result of unreliable projections are inventory imbalances: mistakes in planning, purchasing, and inventory management, resulting in inventory levels that don’t match actual demand. Each year, inventory imbalances cost retailers an estimated $1.1 trillion annually. Key Takeaways.

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Retalon

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

The result of unreliable projections are inventory imbalances: mistakes in planning, purchasing, and inventory management, resulting in inventory levels that don’t match actual demand. Each year, inventory imbalances cost retailers an estimated $1.1 trillion annually. Key Takeaways.

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Retalon

APRIL 27, 2021

However, traditional spreadsheet analytics cannot account for store-by-store variations in the promotion’s effectiveness or secondary effects such as demand cannibalization. to optimize inventory for gross margins. In effect, this means a reduction of total inventories, maximized sales, and reduced markdowns.

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Retalon

APRIL 21, 2021

This means that optimizing your fulfillment across all channels requires building a holistic process that takes your specific company policies and labour considerations into account, while still finding the cheapest and fastest method for fulfilling omnichannel orders (while keeping your customers happy) — for every order.

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Retail Prophet

JULY 18, 2022

McClean had managed to reduce the cost of loading and unloading cargo from $5.83 Most companies today, according to Thorbeck, are accounting only for the front-end advantage that low cost might afford them. The myopic focus on low price has lead to an epidemic of markdowns and dead stock. per ton to just 16 cents.

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Retalon

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Better inventory management and visibility. Retailers need better inventory management practices to conduct BOPIS operations but at the same time, BOPIS makes your inventory management better. Your inventory system must be accurate in real-time. This benefit is a chicken-and-egg situation.

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Retalon

JANUARY 20, 2014

Retalon has helped businesses plan their operations, optimize prices and markdowns, and ensure efficiency in supply chain and inventory management processes. From inception, Retalon’s analytics have been built on a common analytic platform that takes into account the entire retail business process. FREMONT, Calif.–Nov

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Retalon

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Without a solid demand forecast, you risk misallocating inventory and missing your revenue targets while watching turns collapse. Fixing the problem through stock rebalancing or price markdowns will be expensive. Retailers need to also account for new products impacting the sales of other SKUs through product demand cannibalization.

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Retalon

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Are the current pricing and markdown strategies still the optimal ones based on the new forecast? And how can retailers determine and account for the shifts in demand that follow? Retalon’s solutions are built one unified platform to account for all factors influencing your business. What products might also see an uplift?

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Retalon

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Are the current pricing and markdown strategies still the optimal ones based on the new forecast? And how can retailers determine and account for the shifts in demand that follow? Retalon’s solutions are built one unified platform to account for all factors influencing your business. What products might also see an uplift?

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Retalon

AUGUST 2, 2019

Businesses collect more data than ever before and from every aspect of the supply and demand chain—logistics; vendor compliancy/lead times; POS data; inventory levels; traffic cameras; prices; markdowns; consumer behavior; demand forecasts; and more. Merchants and inventory managers attended more co-planning meetings.

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Retalon

AUGUST 2, 2019

Inventory levels (store, warehouse, distribution centers). Prices (markdowns, promotions, competitor prices, etc.). Because retailers can’t afford to lose money because inventory purchases didn’t account for future promotions, business leaders imposed processes to keep everyone on the same page. Demand forecasts.

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Retalon

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Yet, despite these challenges, some traditional retailers are managing to grow year-over-year, shredding previous sales records time and time again. Unfortunately, retail businesses are very complex, and there are too many correlations between factors (demand, price, inventory, product assortment, competitors, consumer behavior, etc.)

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Retalon

DECEMBER 8, 2021

This includes everything from purchasing inventory to returns management. Purchase order management is often the first stumbling block to a smooth fulfillment process. Changes in geodemographics, seasonality, pricing, new inventory, and cannibalization are only a few of the factors influencing product demand.

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Retalon

AUGUST 16, 2019

So, how can you juggle concerns like forecasting, inventory management, distribution, fulfillment, and more against the growing demand for personalization, all while continuing to create the consistent experience customers expect ? This is the level of exclusivity their customers expect and prefer.

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Retalon

AUGUST 16, 2019

How can you juggle concerns like forecasting, inventory management, distribution, fulfillment, and more against the growing demand for personalization, all while continuing to create the consistent experience customers expect? This is the level of exclusivity their customers expect and prefer.

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Retalon

OCTOBER 18, 2013

One of them is they try to manage inventory inside, sometimes they use a term, turning all my stores into one large distribution center rather than buying or catching a next purchase order from the vendor. Another thing that retailers are trying to do today is to monitor inventory in different locations. Bob Johns: Interesting.

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Retalon

DECEMBER 22, 2014

How much extra inventory should be ordered for planned promotions? What is the optimal pricing/markdown strategy to sell off inventory by end of season while a staying away from lost sales, and dead inventory? When is the right time to replenish inventory from the vendor and how much should you order?

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Retalon

DECEMBER 22, 2014

How much extra inventory should be ordered for planned promotions? What is the optimal pricing/markdown strategy to sell off inventory by end of season while a staying away from lost sales, and dead inventory? When is the right time to replenish inventory from the vendor and how much should you order?

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Retalon

JULY 4, 2018

These tools are not able to account for new products, categories, and markets, or used & exchanged items, let alone suggest accurate and tangible actions going forward. Here’s more detail on how Retalon’s Inter-store inventory & assortment balancing process works.

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