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How Hot Topic and Lamps Plus Mastered Inventory Management and More

Retail TouchPoints

Smart retailers are realizing that their increasingly complex omnichannel offerings have made strong supply chain management more important than ever. Retailers need to handle inventory in stores and distribution centers, keep an eye on both digital and physical shelves and keep costs down with efficient logistics and routing.

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How to Revolutionize Inventory Management

Independent Retailer

Retailers had to revolutionize inventory and planning when the pandemic hit, and many businesses are still finding their feet in the post-pandemic economy. With so many factors impacting fragile, interconnected supply chains, how can retailers use data to react effectively to disruptions? Common Inventory Management Headaches.

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How independent eCommerce retailers can optimise stock inventory management during peak

365 Retail

Many small to medium-sized retailers often think that in order to grow they’ll need to make large-scale investments into robust stock inventory management systems to meet demand effectively. At the touch of a button, they can find savings, identify the most profitable stock lines, and maximise margins. The power of automation .

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Customer returns: Five fundamentals to recoup revenue

365 Retail

But with great gains come great returns. Significant revenue gets lost when mass quantities of orders are returned, leaving retailers with a ton of inventory that is then discounted, liquidated, or even thrown out. Here, we outline five fundamental approaches to building an efficient returns strategy to recoup at-risk revenue.

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Preparing For Peak; Five Tips For Getting Supply Chains Fit For The Festive Season

Retail Focus

Ben Balfour, Business Operations Director at Advanced Supply Chain Group , shares top tips about how retailers can prepare their supply chains for a Black Friday and Christmas sales surge. Ben Balfour, Business Operations Director at Advanced Supply Chain Group. 1) Don’t play the waiting game.

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Demand Forecasting in Supply Chain – Getting it Right in 2024

Retalon

While nearly three-quarters of all retailers still rely on simple, and consequently limited, tools such as Excel spreadsheets, the integration of AI-driven technologies in supply chain management is revolutionizing how demand forecasting for forward-thinking retailers. What is supply chain demand forecasting?

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It’s Official – Amazon is an Ecommerce Enabler First and a Retailer Second

Retail TouchPoints

Dharmesh Mehta, VP of Worldwide Selling Partner Services at Amazon , is celebrating his 10th anniversary with the company this year, and so he kicked off the fourth annual Amazon Accelerate conference for sellers by comparing the differences between the ecommerce platform today and 10 years ago.