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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. Will you deny returns at a store level?

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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. 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. What is bad inventory called day-to-day?

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How Predictive Analytics Are Transforming Omni-Channel Retail

Retalon

The marketing and loyalty department provide consumer/promotion data, the POS system provides sales/returns data. What is the optimal pricing/markdown strategy to sell off inventory by end of season while a staying away from lost sales, and dead inventory? How do you calculate optimal safety stock levels?

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How Predictive Analytics Are Transforming Omni-Channel Retail

Retalon

The marketing and loyalty department provide consumer/promotion data, the POS system provides sales/returns data. What is the optimal pricing/markdown strategy to sell off inventory by end of season while a staying away from lost sales, and dead inventory? How do you calculate optimal safety stock levels?

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Sustainable Supply Chains in 2022 (and Beyond)

Retalon

This was possible because: Talented labor in other countries was cheaper than domestic workers Overseas factories began producing high-quality products at lower prices Consumers wanted goods to be equally attainable for all financial classes Increased margins allowed retailers to stock more inventory and carry larger assortments.

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[Webinar] Increasing Your Share of Shelf with Suggestive Selling

Wiser

Today we see brands leveraging a combination of both sales metrics and in-store checks to prioritize visits to high potential stores for the highest return. Now, obviously, there’s going to be accounts where no matter how good the data shows, right, you won’t get that authorization to make changes to the home shelf.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 252 – Amazon FBA Roll-ups with Chris Bell CEO of Perch

Retail Geek

By some accounts, these firms have cumulatively raised over $1B in capitol, and are rapidly acquiring brands. People used to record ideas on dead trees and sometimes you need a copy of the dead tree so you could actually make a machine that duplicated the dead tree. 17:44] We want to see stronger gaming performance.