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Pacsun Improves Profitability with Intelligent Allocation and Replenishment with Antuit.ai

Retail Focus

With a strong commitment to supporting self-expression amongst its community of younger shoppers, it launched its PacCares initiative in 2020 to support and partner with companies that matched its values of good mental health, diversity and equality. But this fast ecommerce growth didn’t come without challenges.

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How Retailers can Overcome the Challenges Faced on the Path to Sustainability

Retail TouchPoints

This year saw the proposal of the Fashion Sustainability and Social Accountability Act. To help address this, some retailers have been using advanced artificial intelligence (AI) to improve forecasting capabilities and optimize markdown processes to reduce product waste. A Starting Point. Walmart estimates this will reduce the 1.4

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7 Expert Tips Guaranteed to Reduce Inventory Costs (2020)

Retalon

But getting the biggest return on that investment, especially in today’s tough retail environment, requires a more nuanced, data-driven approach to inventory management than most retailers are used to. They quickly learn to time their purchases for the inevitable markdowns rather than buying products during the main lifecycle.

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Pacsun Improves Profitability with Intelligent Allocation and Replenishment with Antuit.ai

365 Retail

With a strong commitment to supporting self-expression amongst its community of younger shoppers, it launched its PacCares initiative in 2020 to support and partner with companies that matched its values of good mental health, diversity and equality. But this fast ecommerce growth didn’t come without challenges.

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How to Forecast Demand in Retail (2020)

Retalon

In order to understand how to take full advantage of this new technology, we will first explain what demand forecasting actually is, the most common methods of demand forecasting in retail, key constraints that need to be accounted for, and modern examples of accurate demand forecasting. What is Demand Forecasting?

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More recessions lessons from Greenlit Brands, Camilla, Super Retail

Inside Retail

Advice: Any CEO is measured by the profit margin they generate from the turnover of their inventory, so it’s critical to always measure your return on working capital. With liquidity being key, we knew that if the product was not selling now, it would not sell in November, being summer, so we had to take the markdowns and be ruthless.

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5 Major Retail Digital Transformations to Watch For in 2021

Retalon

However, traditional spreadsheet analytics cannot account for store-by-store variations in the promotion’s effectiveness or secondary effects such as demand cannibalization. Advanced analytics has the capacity to integrate every channel of a multi-channel business into its forecast to maximize the return on promotion investments.