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Lowe’s Expands DC-Based Delivery of Bulky Products to 8 More Regions

Retail TouchPoints

Under the new market delivery model, large items are shipped directly from DCs to the customer, reducing the number of “touches” for each order and freeing up space at brick-and-mortar stores. Lowe’s kicked off the transition to the market delivery model in 2021 in its Florida and Ohio Valley regions. During the call on Nov.

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Mejuri Leverages Real-Time Profitability Data to Inform Decision-Making

Retail TouchPoints

Mejuri sells through multiple channels, including ecommerce, call center and physical store locations, processing orders for fulfillment across multiple locations and a variety of shipping methods. Mejuri uses the real-time tracking to swiftly, and fluidly, pivot strategies. Retailer Plans to Use Solution Across Multiple Channels.

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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. What can the retailer learn from and improve?

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4 Critical Steps for Optimizing Omnichannel Order Fulfillment in 2021

Retalon

Maintaining margins within business constraints while efficiently providing order fulfillment to customers is a tall order, especially considering each customer purchase requires a real-time fulfillment decision within a shifting context of inventory, demand, returns, delivery times, and shipping costs. That’s the billion dollar question.

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5 Critical Steps to a Profitable Replenishment Plan (2021)

Retalon

Replenishment planning is the process of figuring out how to profitably replenish inventory throughout the season, at what quantities, through which vendors / shippers, and how frequently — with the goal of minimizing out-of-stocks, unnecessary markdowns, and overall costs. Why is replenishment planning so complicated?

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5 Major Retail Digital Transformations to Watch For in 2021

Retalon

In effect, this means a reduction of total inventories, maximized sales, and reduced markdowns. Retail AI identifies the fulfillment options that balance customer satisfaction with the cost of shipping and handling by accounting for inventory levels, transportation costs, and other factors, in real-time.

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An Overview of how the BOPIS Retail Strategy is Transforming the Industry (2021)

Retalon

Instead of only shipping to customers’ homes, retailers let online customers shop from their local and online store’s inventory and pick up their orders from their closest brick-and-mortar location the same day. This product is shipped to the store where the customer picks it up. Lower shipping costs. Saves time and money.