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Product Substitution: How Savvy Retailers and Manufacturers can Build Supply Chain Resiliency, Reduce Costs and Improve Customer Experiences

Retail TouchPoints

Shipping delays and stockouts lead to frustration and disappointment, especially when logistical problems impact time-sensitive purchases, such as special occasion gifts, event tickets or prescription medications. In manufacturing, product substitution can be a valuable tool for optimizing inventory management.

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5 Ways to Increase Efficiency from RFQ to Invoice

Global Shop

In the last four years, I’ve visited over 50 manufacturers and had the privilege of deep diving into their systems to provide insights on how they can improve their processes. Inventory & Purchasing: Check inventory for product and create Purchase Orders for materials that are not in stock.

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4 Ways to Improve Productivity on the Shop Floor

Global Shop

Productivity plays an important role in the profitability and competitiveness of manufacturers by measuring the rate of output per unit of output. What sometimes gets overlooked is the ability to improve productivity using ERP software. Here’s an example of how automating manual processes can boost your productivity.

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7 Questions Every Retailer Should be Asking Itself About Ecommerce and Shopper Loyalty

Retail TouchPoints

Ecommerce first promised consumers convenience, but in the last decade it has also brought increasing value to market by combining its transactional data with shopper journey data — offering manufacturers near-real-time metrics on campaign performance. Kerr also founded several successful software development companies.

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How Ecommerce Tech Can Reduce the Environmental Damage it Caused in the First Place

Retail TouchPoints

But alongside that dizzying sales growth, we’ve also witnessed a growing consciousness about how damaging all of those online sales are to the environment, and throughout the product lifecycle, from manufacturing to delivery to eventual disposal. Fortunately, research shows that 73% of returns can be remedied by retailers themselves.

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How RedMart by Lazada is navigating Singapore’s changing grocery market

Inside Retail

An ever-evolving space According to Dr Seshan Ramaswami, associate professor of marketing education at Singapore Management University, Singaporeans were already in the process of transitioning to e-shopping for purchases before the pandemic hit.

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How Amazon’s Anti-Counterfeit Unit Keeps Fake Products off its Site

Retail TouchPoints

We’ve been working up the supply chain, all the way to counterfeit manufacturers in places like China and Turkey, as well as working with law enforcement in the U.S., Europe and China,” said Smith. We’ve also sued [counterfeiters] in partnership with small, medium-sized and luxury brands.”