Retalon

APRIL 26, 2021

Product clustering (or grouping) is an increasingly common technique that leading retailers use to manage their planning, inventory, pricing, promotions, and markdowns. Retailers may cluster these substitute products together to manage inventory more efficiently. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

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Retalon

JULY 28, 2021

Simply put, seasonal demand forecasting is a type of advanced demand forecasting that takes into account the many complex variables of predicting the performance of seasonal products (non-evergreen products). Retailers either lose sales and customer satisfaction due to inventory shortages or face drastic and expensive markdowns.

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Retalon

JULY 28, 2021

Simply put, seasonal demand forecasting is a type of advanced demand forecasting that takes into account the many complex variables of predicting the performance of seasonal products (non-evergreen products). Retailers either lose sales and customer satisfaction due to inventory shortages or face drastic and expensive markdowns.

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Retalon

JANUARY 5, 2021

An inaccurate forecast, unpredictable changes to consumer preferences, shifts in the competitive landscape, or major economic events can all completely throw your planning and purchasing off-track, leaving you with major inventory distortions despite your best plans.

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Retalon

MARCH 4, 2019

Modern retailers take advantage of advanced retail predictive analytics planning solutions. With multiple plans, and several levels of planners, plans may go through lots of re-consolidations, merging, and adding up to the “master plan”. This means that changes to plans are very cumbersome. Inventory Management.

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Retalon

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

The result of unreliable projections are inventory imbalances: mistakes in planning, purchasing, and inventory management, resulting in inventory levels that don’t match actual demand. Each year, inventory imbalances cost retailers an estimated $1.1 Inventory imbalances happen at a high price to retailers.

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Retalon

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

The result of unreliable projections are inventory imbalances: mistakes in planning, purchasing, and inventory management, resulting in inventory levels that don’t match actual demand. Each year, inventory imbalances cost retailers an estimated $1.1 Inventory imbalances happen at a high price to retailers.

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Retalon

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

The result of unreliable projections are inventory imbalances: mistakes in planning, purchasing, and inventory management, resulting in inventory levels that don’t match actual demand. Each year, inventory imbalances cost retailers an estimated $1.1 Inventory imbalances happen at a high price to retailers.

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Retalon

APRIL 27, 2021

Although e-commerce gets all of the attention, the past two decades of technological change have transformed every aspect of the retail business — from planning, inventory, pricing, and promotions — all the way down to customer service and the in-store experience. to optimize inventory for gross margins.

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Retalon

APRIL 21, 2021

This means that optimizing your fulfillment across all channels requires building a holistic process that takes your specific company policies and labour considerations into account, while still finding the cheapest and fastest method for fulfilling omnichannel orders (while keeping your customers happy) — for every order.

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Retalon

JANUARY 20, 2014

Retalon has helped businesses plan their operations, optimize prices and markdowns, and ensure efficiency in supply chain and inventory management processes. From inception, Retalon’s analytics have been built on a common analytic platform that takes into account the entire retail business process.

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Retalon

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Better inventory management and visibility. Retailers need better inventory management practices to conduct BOPIS operations but at the same time, BOPIS makes your inventory management better. Accurate store inventory counts aren’t enough. Your inventory system must be accurate in real-time.

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Retalon

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Are the current pricing and markdown strategies still the optimal ones based on the new forecast? And how can retailers determine and account for the shifts in demand that follow? Retalon’s solutions are built one unified platform to account for all factors influencing your business. What products might also see an uplift?

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Retalon

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Are the current pricing and markdown strategies still the optimal ones based on the new forecast? And how can retailers determine and account for the shifts in demand that follow? Retalon’s solutions are built one unified platform to account for all factors influencing your business. What products might also see an uplift?

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Retalon

AUGUST 2, 2019

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. Unifying Big Data across Forecasting, Planning, and Operations.

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Retalon

AUGUST 16, 2019

So, how can you juggle concerns like forecasting, inventory management, distribution, fulfillment, and more against the growing demand for personalization, all while continuing to create the consistent experience customers expect ? There are, of course, challenges to overcome with real-world and e-commerce personalization.

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Retalon

AUGUST 16, 2019

How can you juggle concerns like forecasting, inventory management, distribution, fulfillment, and more against the growing demand for personalization, all while continuing to create the consistent experience customers expect? There are, of course, challenges to overcome with real-world and e-commerce personalization.

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Retalon

AUGUST 2, 2019

Inventory levels (store, warehouse, distribution centers). Prices (markdowns, promotions, competitor prices, etc.). Unifying Big Data across Forecasting, Planning, and Operations. Merchants and inventory managers attended more co-planning meetings. POS data (sales, returns, etc.). Demand forecasts.

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M19 Retail

MARCH 17, 2021

MIAMI, FLORIDA March 17, 2021 – Mi9 Retail, the number one vendor for tier one retailers (RIS 2021 Software Leaderboard) that enables them to automate and optimize merchandise management and demand planning, is pleased to announce the release of its new merchandise management mobile application (MMA). About Mi9 Retail.

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Retalon

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Unfortunately, retail businesses are very complex, and there are too many correlations between factors (demand, price, inventory, product assortment, competitors, consumer behavior, etc.) for any human to account for all of them manually. Promotions and inventory management).

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Retalon

DECEMBER 22, 2014

How to you distribute/allocate inventory to stores while considering dozens of factors such as geo-demographic diversity, store capacity, consumer demand, local promotions, and special/rare events (eg. How much extra inventory should be ordered for planned promotions? Super bowl in your city)?

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Retalon

DECEMBER 22, 2014

How to you distribute/allocate inventory to stores while considering dozens of factors such as geo-demographic diversity, store capacity, consumer demand, local promotions, and special/rare events (eg. How much extra inventory should be ordered for planned promotions? Super bowl in your city)?

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Retalon

JULY 4, 2018

These tools are not able to account for new products, categories, and markets, or used & exchanged items, let alone suggest accurate and tangible actions going forward. A Forrester research team surveyed retailers on what they plan to implement to support fulfillment efforts.

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Retalon

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Changes in geodemographics, seasonality, pricing, new inventory, and cannibalization are only a few of the factors influencing product demand. An accurate forecast must account for how relevant factors will affect each SKU at the store level. Unfortunately, a host of factors can make past sales history a poor indicator of future sales.

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Retalon

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Often resulting in inventory distortion that lead to lost sales and costly markdowns. Traditional analytics relies too much on past sales to plan and manage inventory. For instance, many retailers run promotions while lacking integration between promotion and inventory management processes.

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Retalon

JUNE 18, 2019

Promotion planning is a constant balancing act. The math needed to account for these effects is hard enough. Multiply that effort by the hundreds, or thousands, of promotions you run every year and the workload quickly balloons beyond the capacity of any planning team. Sometimes, that will mean a focus on increasing sales.

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M19 Retail

APRIL 14, 2021

The multiplication of choices induced by this model translates into a drop in productivity of the physical store space and an increase in markdowns at the end of the season to sell unsold products. This complexity requires more planning effort than only large data analysis and algorithms using artificial intelligence can help manage.

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Retalon

JUNE 18, 2019

Promotion planning is a constant balancing act. The math needed to account for these effects is hard enough. Multiply that effort by the hundreds, or thousands, of promotions you run every year and the workload quickly balloons beyond the capacity of any planning team. Sometimes, that will mean a focus on increasing sales.

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Retail Prophet

JULY 18, 2022

In 1956, after almost two decades of planning, McClean’s musings became reality got when he loaded 58 metal containers in Port Newark onto the S.S. Most companies today, according to Thorbeck, are accounting only for the front-end advantage that low cost might afford them. A huge saving of time and labor, he thought.

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Retalon

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Other directions that I should mention here is retailers are trying to establish relations between inventory levels and other drivers such as prices and promotions. And if you use these numbers to forecast your next year data, you’ll basically plan yourself to be out of stock next year. So how can we account for all these factors?

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