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Avoid Inventory Imbalances by Leveraging Retail Predictive Analytics

Retalon

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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Avoid Inventory Imbalances by Leveraging Retail Predictive Analytics

Retalon

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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4 Critical Steps for Optimizing Omnichannel Order Fulfillment in 2021

Retalon

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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How Predictive Analytics Are Transforming Omni-Channel Retail

Retalon

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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How Predictive Analytics Are Transforming Omni-Channel Retail

Retalon

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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Predictive Analytics Brings Retailers Closer To Omni-Channel Customers

Retalon

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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The Future of Retail in the New Era of Risk

Retail Prophet

Most companies today, according to Thorbeck, are accounting only for the front-end advantage that low cost might afford them. The result is slow turns, deep markdowns, write-offs, and heaps of dead stock in warehouses, much of which eventually becomes landfill. Risks, he says, that make businesses far less competitive.