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As the Holidays Approach, it’s Time to Rethink Retail Pricing Methodology…and AI Can Help

Retail TouchPoints

In this kind of shopping environment, how should retailers align their promotions and markdowns for the greatest impact? Keeping in mind as well the need to optimize their supply chain fulfillment to meet consumer delivery expectations while managing parcel carrier costs?

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Avoid Inventory Imbalances by Leveraging Retail Predictive Analytics

Retalon

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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Avoid Inventory Imbalances by Leveraging Retail Predictive Analytics

Retalon

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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4 Critical Steps for Optimizing Omnichannel Order Fulfillment in 2021

Retalon

At its most basic, it only requires integrating live inventory counts from your ERP / inventory management software with your e-commerce platform, ensuring customers can get accurate information about which store has the items they’re looking for (or give them the option to ship to store). Book a personalized demo with our team.

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How Predictive Analytics Are Transforming Omni-Channel Retail

Retalon

The marketing and loyalty department provide consumer/promotion data, the POS system provides sales/returns data. The DCs and logistics functions provide inventory/supply chain data, as well as the procurement/purchasing department, e-commerce, and more. How much extra inventory should be ordered for planned promotions?

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How Predictive Analytics Are Transforming Omni-Channel Retail

Retalon

The marketing and loyalty department provide consumer/promotion data, the POS system provides sales/returns data. The DCs and logistics functions provide inventory/supply chain data, as well as the procurement/purchasing department, e-commerce, and more. How much extra inventory should be ordered for planned promotions?

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Predictive Analytics Brings Retailers Closer To Omni-Channel Customers

Retalon

seasonality, price-elasticity, geo-demographic diversity, past promotions) and applies sophisticated mathematics to your specific business rules, policies, and costs constraints. Usually by purchasing more inventory they already have in other locations, or marking down inventory that is selling too slow.