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How Smaller Assortments, Lower Inventory Levels Can Maximize Post-COVID Success

Retail TouchPoints

By creating narrower product assortments and limiting inventory levels — especially for product shipments headed to brick-and-mortar stores —merchants would gain the ability to react more quickly to changing consumer trends, and even potentially reduce their need for markdowns. Richard Maicki. Keith Jelinek.

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Preparing for the Rise in Online Retail Returns

Retail TouchPoints

Returns are increasing labor costs due to inspection and restocking time and often cause markdowns, out-of-stock and logistics expenses to increase. A 2019 study found that 46% of returns were attributed to the “wrong size, fit, or color.” Retailers can also create a return policy that avoids waste.

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Press Release: enVista brings Retalon’s AI to their Unified Commerce Solutions.

Retalon

Combining Retalon’s artificial intelligence (AI) and predictive analytics tools with enVista’s cloud-native, Order Management System (OMS) will offer retailers an integrated solution to make smarter inventory and fulfillment decisions, resulting in increased revenue and profits. About Retalon: . appeared first on Retalon.

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

Indigo 9 Digital

That means if there is slow moving merchandise the retailer doesn’t have to worry about taking markdowns to sell the inventory. Ocado is an online grocer and Marks & Spencer paid £750 million for a 50% stake in Ocado’s UK retail business in 2019. 57% of Amazon’s unit sales in come from third party sellers on its platform.

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Retailers: Leverage AI For A Greener Planet And Greener Financial Statements

Retalon

And retailers are rushing to offer new fulfillment options, like “buy online, pick up in-store” (BOPIS), curbside pickups, cashless checkouts, drop-shipping, mobile shopping and more. Increased Carbon Footprint: The shift to “next-day” e-commerce has increased the logistics associated with fulfilling an order and accepting returns.

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How to Get Results from your Big Data with Retail AI

Retalon

Businesses collect more data than ever before and from every aspect of the supply and demand chain—logistics; vendor compliancy/lead times; POS data; inventory levels; traffic cameras; prices; markdowns; consumer behavior; demand forecasts; and more. Consider the way retailers traditionally forecast fulfillment.

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Causes of Retail Overstock and Best Ways to Avoid Them.

Retalon

Not only do overstock situations force retailers to markdown inventory at the end of a season at slim-to-no profit margins, but it also takes up physical space in stores warehouses, accruing carrying costs, and ties up extra cash that could be used towards advancing business goals. 3. Logistics and fulfillment challenges.