Retalon

MAY 10, 2024

One way that OTB funds can be managed is by categories, such as women’s wear in the apparel department. At home, the gift budget may need to be significantly higher in December than in January to account for holidays. Retail budgeting is sectioned off in much the same way. Decide at which level the budget will be set.

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Retalon

MAY 10, 2024

One way that OTB funds can be managed is by categories, such as women’s wear in the apparel department. At home, the gift budget may need to be significantly higher in December than in January to account for holidays. Retail budgeting is sectioned off in much the same way. Decide at which level the budget will be set.

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Retalon

JUNE 18, 2019

Promotion planning is a constant balancing act. You have many types of promotions to choose from, each with its own effects on consumer behaviour and the resulting outcome. These promotions must also fit within your overall promotional strategy which supports your company’s business goals.

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M19 Retail

MARCH 17, 2021

MIAMI, FLORIDA March 17, 2021 – Mi9 Retail, the number one vendor for tier one retailers (RIS 2021 Software Leaderboard) that enables them to automate and optimize merchandise management and demand planning, is pleased to announce the release of its new merchandise management mobile application (MMA).

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365 Retail

DECEMBER 3, 2021

DemandTec , a pioneer in retail price and promotion optimization technology, today launched Unify by DemandTec, the industry’s first autonomous unified merchandising platform for retailers. Unified merchandising as a strategic advantage. It’s a critical time for retailers, all around the world,” said Todd P.

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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. Planning for seasonal sales has always been a bit of a gamble.

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Retalon

JUNE 18, 2019

Retail Sales Promotion Goals, Examples, and How AI is Optimizing Them. Promotion planning is a constant balancing act. You have many types of promotions to choose from, each with its own effects on consumer behaviour and the resulting outcome. The math needed to account for these effects is hard enough.

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Retalon

JANUARY 17, 2022

Granted, many retailers have developed pricing strategies that account for multiple factors affecting product price, such as; Production and distribution costs Competitor pricing Revenue goals. So, it came as no surprise when Gartner reported an increasing number of retailers are looking to invest in price management analytics solutions.

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Retalon

MARCH 7, 2022

Retalon, a Toronto-based retail AI company, has been recognized for advancing retail technology in supply chain and merchandising in 2022. Retail Today considered nearly 7,000 nominees for these awards. “Retail CIO Radar 2022 helps CIOs and Retail business leaders to stay on top of the latest innovations.

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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. New products, moving holidays, new promotions, changes in demand, competition, vendor costs and other factors make last year’s sales data unreliable.

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Retalon

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Other benefits of OTB management include: More flexible inventory. Fewer markdowns. Essentially, OTB is a purchasing plan which takes into account current inventory levels and projected sales for a set time period. Where you expect to finish is your closing inventory plus your planned sales and markdowns. OTB management.

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Retalon

JUNE 10, 2020

Pricing right is the fastest and most effective way for managers to increase profits.” ( McKinsey & Company ). may cover generic approaches to managing and optimizing price for any given product, but they don’t account for the most critical variables that determine your pricing success.

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Retalon

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Price elasticity of demand, meaning the effect that a set price will have on demand, is an important consideration when setting prices, running promotions, or markdowns. Changes made by competitors Changes in geodemographics Changes in promotional calendars and strategies Changes in seasonality Changes in vendor pricing.

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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

OCTOBER 8, 2020

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. The way you manage the inventory investments for your stores, warehouses, and distribution centers determines your success as a retailer.

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Retalon

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

POS / customer engagement software Ecommerce platforms Data analytics and business intelligence software Order management software. Retail IT services: Tech support Field support Device management Software management Disaster recovery Software integration Custom development. Why invest in pricing and promotions?

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Retalon

JUNE 29, 2013

In order to achieve this there is a lot of thought put into inventory management, allocation, and replenishment processes. For Example: When products don’t sell well at specific stores, retailers are forced to markdown inventory in order to clear the inventory. Originally Published on PA Times. However, not all solutions are equal.

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Retalon

APRIL 27, 2021

Although e-commerce gets all of the attention, the past two decades of technological change have transformed every aspect of the retail business — from planning, inventory, pricing, and promotions — all the way down to customer service and the in-store experience. Online sales now account for more than 20% of total retail sales.

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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. Replenishing stock is a key facet of inventory management which helps to balance inventory levels during a selling period. What is replenishment? What is replenishment stock?

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Retalon

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Business Intelligence (BI) and traditional forecasting methodology can provide visibility into a retailer’s past sales, promotions, stock levels, and more. 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.

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Retalon

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Business Intelligence (BI) and traditional forecasting methodology can provide visibility into a retailer’s past sales, promotions, stock levels, and more. 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.

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Retalon

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Business Intelligence (BI) and traditional forecasting methodology can provide visibility into a retailer’s past sales, promotions, stock levels, and more. 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.

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Retalon

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Without historical data to draw upon, how do you predict the best way to allocate them to stores, pricing, promotional demand, and balance online versus in-store sales? Co-marketing funds you receive require investments in store merchandising and promotional campaigns. – all costly mistakes. What should initial pricing look like?

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Indigo 9 Digital

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Source: Bloomberg "[Forever 21] has lost much of the excitement and oomph which is critical to driving footfall and sales and is now something of an also-ran which is too easily overlooked," said Neil Saunders, the managing director of GlobalData Retail. An inability to leverage social media effectively. Large stores are inherently risky.

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Retalon

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

For example, one retailer might want to manage their inventory better, so they would use KPIs like inventory to sales ratios or inventory integrity. This dramatically increases revenue from transfers, lowers inventory costs and increases sales while helping you avoid unnecessary markdowns and subsequent allocations. Promotion Lift.

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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. And this is just the tip of the iceberg.

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Retalon

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

For example, one retailer might want to manage their inventory better, so they would use KPIs like inventory to sales ratios or inventory integrity. This dramatically increases revenue from transfers, lowers inventory costs and increases sales while helping you avoid unnecessary markdowns and subsequent allocations. Promotion Lift.

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Retalon

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

For example, one retailer might want to manage their inventory better, so they would use KPIs like inventory to sales ratios or inventory integrity. This dramatically increases revenue from transfers, lowers inventory costs and increases sales while helping you avoid unnecessary markdowns and subsequent allocations. Promotion Lift.

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Retalon

MARCH 9, 2021

Low prices leave little room for promotions or end-of-lifecycle markdowns. Balancing the tradeoffs and identifying the best pricing strategy or combination of pricing strategies has always required deep retail management expertise. An initial promotion introduces customers to a service that they continue to use and pay for.

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Retalon

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Let’s take a closer look at how sustainable supply chain management results in efficient, cost-saving operations that are better suited to our current social, and environmental needs. Common challenges and conflicts in sustainable supply chain management. 3 sustainability issues in supply chain management: 1.

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Retalon

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

In order to understand how to take full advantage of this new technology, we will first explain what demand forecasting actually is, the most common methods of demand forecasting in retail, key constraints that need to be accounted for, and modern examples of accurate demand forecasting. What is Demand Forecasting?

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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. How will a promotion during a seasonal peak affect the uplift in demand?

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Retalon

JUNE 22, 2020

New products, seasonal peaks, price changes, promotions, competition, moving holidays and dozens of other factors that influence your business make it impossible to simply rely on what happened this time last year. But don’t wait too long. One of the biggest mistakes retailers make is overthinking their approach with new technology.

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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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Retalon

AUGUST 2, 2019

Prices (markdowns, promotions, competitor prices, etc.). How will a promotion during a seasonal peak affect the uplift in demand? 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.

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Retalon

JANUARY 20, 2014

This annual list of companies is selected by a panel of experts and members of CIO Review’s editorial board to recognize and promote technology entrepreneurship. Retalon has helped businesses plan their operations, optimize prices and markdowns, and ensure efficiency in supply chain and inventory management processes.

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Retalon

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

There are several different approaches that companies take to measuring GMROI, each based on the nuances of their unique internal accounting systems. While the formula for GMROI will be similar in most situations, the costs taken into account will be very different depending on your goal. its purpose should still be the same.

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