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The Solution for Smart Fulfillment and Omni Channel Retailing

Retalon

What retailers need is a strategy to allow stores to become fulfillment centers. This means that a store must not only carry enough inventory to satisfy forecasted demand, but also additional stock to satisfy any online or mobile orders that will be fulfilled though their location. How do you build a smart fulfillment strategy?

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Marks & Spencer’s Turnaround Strategy, Why it’s Working

Indigo 9 Digital

Marks & Spencer is in the midst of a multi-year transformation that former CEO Steve Rowe began in 2018 and it’s working. That means if there is slow moving merchandise the retailer doesn’t have to worry about taking markdowns to sell the inventory. Marks & Spencer’s revenues last year were up 21.5%

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How retailers are optimizing and automating their business

Retalon

Retail is changing faster than ever, and keeping up fulfilment needs, competitive pricing, and trendy assortment is costly. Inventory Management. Traditional inventory management is fragmented silo work that doesn’t take other processes into account. Modern retailing requires a different approach.

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Improve Key KPIs & Meet Yearly Goals with Predictive Analytics

Retalon

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. In-Stock Percent.

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Predictive Analytics Brings Retailers Closer To Omni-Channel Customers

Retalon

If you’re a retailer reading this in 2018, you need to pat yourself on the back! Ultimately many retailers will often compete on the fulfillment strategy. A Forrester research team surveyed retailers on what they plan to implement to support fulfillment efforts. Here’s the list of stores closing this year.).

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How RFID Powers Retail: Past, Present and Future

Retail TouchPoints

According to the researchers at the Auburn University RFID Lab, a typical brick-and-mortar retailer without RFID has about 60% SKU-level accuracy, which is simply not acceptable anymore to keep up with consumer demands for speedy fulfillment and a wide product selection. RFID can raise inventory visibility up to 99%. RFID and Beyond.

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How Predictive Analytics Are Transforming Omni-Channel Retail

Retalon

Retalon is known for Smart Fulfillment. Smart Fulfillment is a small, but important part of it, and I will address it in the next question. Regarding omni-channel fulfillment, how does predictive analytics help retailers take action on the data and deliver better results? Originally posted on Retail IT Insights.