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How Improving Markdowns Will Impact Your Most Important Supply Chain KPIs

Retail TouchPoints

So why should these teams expand their focus to consider markdown planning in addition to their already full slate of targets? Because better markdowns have the potential to significantly improve the traditional KPIs that supply chain teams are evaluated on.

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7 Indicators You’re Managing Bad Inventory (and How to Fix It)

Retalon

You’ve heard it referred to as, overstocks, write-offs, dead-stock, excess, spoiled, expired, and unsold. Drastic Markdowns. Last minute markdowns that offload stock at a loss. There is constant manual intervention, this may be transferring inventory between stores or ordering new stock.

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The Future of Retail in the New Era of Risk

Retail Prophet

In 1956, after almost two decades of planning, McClean’s musings became reality got when he loaded 58 metal containers in Port Newark onto the S.S. The result is slow turns, deep markdowns, write-offs, and heaps of dead stock in warehouses, much of which eventually becomes landfill. Image Credit: Hip To Save).