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Different Things to Consider Outsourcing in Your Retail Business (and Why)

Retail Focus

Accounting and Bookkeeping Maintaining accurate financial records is crucial for the long-term success of any retail business. Outsourcing accounting and bookkeeping tasks to professionals can help you keep track of expenses, revenues, and taxes efficiently.

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How is AI Reshaping the Retail Industry

Retail Gazette

AI algorithms can accurately predict demand and adjust inventory levels in real time by analysing historical sales data, market trends, and external factors such as weather patterns and economic indicators.

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4 Top Inventory Management Techniques and Best Practices

RETAIL MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

Account for items you can’t sell – If you cannot sell an item due to damage, make sure it is classified as non-sellable. Offering discounts and promotions are effective methods for moving stagnant inventory through the purchase cycle. These items need to be replaced and either returned to the vendor or donated.

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Top 3 Challenges in Demand Forecasting, and How Analytics Solves Them (2022)

Retalon

Price elasticity of demand, meaning the effect that a set price will have on demand, is an important consideration when setting prices, running promotions, or markdowns. When Inventory is proactively allocated among locations to meet demand, customers are not repeatedly met with empty shelves pushing them to other retailers.

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What is Open to Buy? – definition, formula, examples

Retalon

Essentially, OTB is a purchasing plan which takes into account current inventory levels and projected sales for a set time period. There is one exception: sold but undelivered products are not counted as Beginning of Month Inventory. Other sales periods, such as promotional seasons, are also useful. What is open to buy?

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Category Management new trends to Boost Sales in 2021

Shopper Motion

They also contribute to the profitability of the company by fostering sales via marketing and in-store promotions and they manage everything related to product inventory, either they order new items or try to improve the speed of inventory turnover. Local Promotions. KPIs for products from a promotional flyer.