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What are Retail Markdowns?

Wiser

Inventory management will rarely be the only thing that makes a retailer successful, but it can absolutely be the something that breaks you. Knowing what your customers like is one thing, but understanding how much of each item you need on shelves and how to price them is where inventory management can go awry.

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Gartner Hype Cycle for Retail Technologies 2018

Retalon

Unified Price, Promotion and Markdown Optimization. The post Gartner Hype Cycle for Retail Technologies 2018 appeared first on Retalon. Entering the Plateau. Algorithmic Merchandise Optimization. Appendixes. Hype Cycle Phases, Benefit Ratings and Maturity Levels. Gartner Recommended Reading.

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Guide for Unified Price, Promotion and Markdown Optimization Applications

Retalon

Getting your product pricing right is absolutely critical to customer cross-channel experience, but the promise of unified price, promotion and markdown optimization is hard to achieve. The post Guide for Unified Price, Promotion and Markdown Optimization Applications appeared first on Retalon. In this report: Market Definition.

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What is Everyday Low Pricing?

Wiser

It’s a complex decision that involves customer behavior, marketing, supply chain and inventory management, and other functional areas. High-Low Pricing is a strategy where a brand starts with a high price and later decreases it via promotions, clearance, or markdowns. What is Everyday Low Pricing? Here are a few signs.

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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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How retailers are optimizing and automating their business

Retalon

Inventory Management. Traditional inventory management is fragmented silo work that doesn’t take other processes into account. Things are done retroactively or not at all, and any changes made tend to be at a category level, not a SKU level, leading to lost sales and unnecessary markdowns.

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The Impact of Sustainability in Shaping Retail

Retail Next

Furthermore, the ever-growing frequency of markdowns also causes overstocking, further exacerbating the problem. The most common solution for this problem is better inventory management which, nowadays, involves better digital documentation, IoT devices and even machine learning solutions. Offsetting.