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How Hot Topic and Lamps Plus Mastered Inventory Management and More

Retail TouchPoints

The retailer has seen digital sales shift away from next-day deliveries, which now account for just 18.2% of orders, toward two -day or later windows, which account for 80%. Another key challenge for Hot Topic’s inventory management system is ensuring its BOPIS options run smoothly even as it fulfills orders across multiple channels.

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How Pack & Send solves online retailers’ biggest pain point: logistics

Inside Retail

By offering 3PL and order fulfilment solutions, through our Pack & Send Live platform, we ultimately offer customers a one-stop shop, including storage, pick and pack and bundling, and inventory management. Smart packing solutions take weight and dimensions into account to achieve the best shipping experience. “We

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4 Ways to Improve Productivity on the Shop Floor

Global Shop

Market-leading productivity can be achieved by testing and defining workflows, simplifying material ordering, ongoing training for employees, regular maintenance of machinery and equipment, and identifying bottlenecks on the shop floor. And it does it in real time, so your inventory counts are always up to date.

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Does Procurement Play a Role in Retail Recovery?

Retail TouchPoints

For most stores with multiple locations, procurement has largely been a centralized process, with each location requesting and receiving inventory from the parent corporation, as needed. But supply chain disruptions resulting from the pandemic forced many store managers to go rogue and do whatever was needed to stay in business.

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How smart new technologies are improving sales and reducing costs for retailers

Inside Retail

The task management solution ensures those clean and clear instructions are passed on so you get great productivity out of the employee.” Salespeople on the shop floor can use these devices to seek a colleague’s assistance in locating a certain size or style of a product instead of leaving the customer alone while the salesperson finds it.

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Retail’s tech revolution sets laser-like focus on the consumer

Inside Retail

This is not just a transient trend but a robust response to the changing consumer, who now craves the tactile satisfaction of in-store shopping along with the personalisation and convenience of online commerce. This is especially crucial in managing seasonal or event-driven merchandise.

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Custom PoS benefits and 6 essential features

365 Retail

PoS systems are becoming essential for managing everyday commercial operations, from simple payment processing to inventory management and sales analytics in retail companies. Modern PoS systems often offer cloud-based or remote access features, allowing managers to monitor business operations from anywhere.