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.

Fulfillment 41

Fulfillment Markdowns Promotions Returns 41

Retalon

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Business Intelligence (BI) and traditional forecasting methodology can provide visibility into a retailer’s past sales, promotions, stock levels, and more. 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.

Markdowns 32

Markdowns Inventory Management Promotions Accounting 32

Retalon

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Business Intelligence (BI) and traditional forecasting methodology can provide visibility into a retailer’s past sales, promotions, stock levels, and more. 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.

Markdowns 32

Markdowns Inventory Management Promotions Accounting 32

Retalon

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Business Intelligence (BI) and traditional forecasting methodology can provide visibility into a retailer’s past sales, promotions, stock levels, and more. 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.

Markdowns 32

Markdowns Inventory Management Promotions Accounting 32

Retalon

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Without historical data to draw upon, how do you predict the best way to allocate them to stores, pricing, promotional demand, and balance online versus in-store sales? Guess wrong and you will run out of inventory, have too much inventory, or have the right inventory in the wrong place. – all costly mistakes.

Promotions 41

Promotions Markdowns Inventory Management Accounting 41

Retalon

JANUARY 5, 2021

Most of today’s inventory management issues start at the level of forecasting. For example, legacy forecasting methods fail to account for the fact that new products in an assortment will inevitably impact sales of older products. And this is just the tip of the iceberg.

Location 41

Location Inventory Management Markdowns Fulfillment 41

Retalon

JANUARY 20, 2014

This annual list of companies is selected by a panel of experts and members of CIO Review’s editorial board to recognize and promote technology entrepreneurship. Retalon has helped businesses plan their operations, optimize prices and markdowns, and ensure efficiency in supply chain and inventory management processes.

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Markdowns Inventory Management Accounting Promotions 32

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. How will a promotion during a seasonal peak affect the uplift in demand?

Merchant Services 39

Merchant Services Fulfillment Accounting Markdowns 39

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?

Markdowns 32

Markdowns Fashion Inventory Management Accounting 32

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?

Markdowns 32

Markdowns Fashion Inventory Management Accounting 32

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.

Fulfillment 41

Fulfillment Drop-Shipping Shipping Returns 41

Retalon

AUGUST 2, 2019

Inventory levels (store, warehouse, distribution centers). Prices (markdowns, promotions, competitor prices, etc.). How will a promotion during a seasonal peak affect the uplift in demand? Merchants and inventory managers attended more co-planning meetings. POS data (sales, returns, etc.). Demand forecasts.

Merchant Services 32

Merchant Services Fulfillment Accounting Markdowns 32

Retalon

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Once a customer comes into the store to pick up their order they are probably going to be looking around at the inventory on the shelves. In addition, they can be greeted by sales associates who can recommend products or inform customers of promotions and events. Better inventory management and visibility.

Fulfillment 41

Fulfillment Payment Services Inventory Management Shipping 41

Retalon

DECEMBER 22, 2014

The marketing and loyalty department provide consumer/promotion data, the POS system provides sales/returns data. The DCs and logistics functions provide inventory/supply chain data, as well as the procurement/purchasing department, e-commerce, and more. How much extra inventory should be ordered for planned promotions?

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Dead-Stock Promotions Fulfillment Markdowns 32

Retalon

DECEMBER 22, 2014

The marketing and loyalty department provide consumer/promotion data, the POS system provides sales/returns data. The DCs and logistics functions provide inventory/supply chain data, as well as the procurement/purchasing department, e-commerce, and more. How much extra inventory should be ordered for planned promotions?

Dead-Stock 32

Dead-Stock Promotions Fulfillment Markdowns 32

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. Usually by purchasing more inventory they already have in other locations, or marking down inventory that is selling too slow.

Promotions 32

Promotions Fulfillment Shipping Markdowns 32

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 ? This is the level of exclusivity their customers expect and prefer.

Fulfillment 32

Fulfillment Customer Experience Markdowns Consumer 32

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? This is the level of exclusivity their customers expect and prefer.

Customer Experience 32

Customer Experience Fulfillment Markdowns Consumer 32

M19 Retail

MARCH 17, 2021

Mi9 Retail continues to make significant product investments in its flagship Merchandise Management platform to help its loyal customer base adapt to changing trends and strengthen their unified commerce strategies. Mi9 Retail Launches New In-Store Mobile App to Help Retailers Improve Inventory Management. Recent Posts.

Inventory Management 40

Inventory Management Management Markdowns Planning 40

Retalon

JUNE 18, 2019

Promotion planning is a constant balancing act. You have many types of promotions to choose from, each with its own effects on consumer behaviour and the resulting outcome. These promotions must also fit within your overall promotional strategy which supports your company’s business goals.

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Promotions Markdowns Payment Services Inventory Management 32

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).

Accounting 47

Accounting Markdowns Management Inventory Management 47

Retalon

JUNE 18, 2019

Retail Sales Promotion Goals, Examples, and How AI is Optimizing Them. Promotion planning is a constant balancing act. You have many types of promotions to choose from, each with its own effects on consumer behaviour and the resulting outcome. The math needed to account for these effects is hard enough.

Promotions 32

Promotions Markdowns Inventory Management Payment Services 32

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.

Merchant Services 41

Merchant Services Fulfillment Drop-Shipping Shipping 41

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. New products, moving holidays, new promotions, changes in demand, competition, vendor costs and other factors make last year’s sales data unreliable.

Fashion 41

Fashion Markdowns Promotions Accounting 41

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. So how can we account for all these factors? When you change the promotion, the system should know about your inventory level. Bob Johns: Interesting.

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Markdowns Promotions Planning Accounting 32