Inside Retail

JANUARY 30, 2024

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. That extends the opportunity for the salesperson to build a rapport with the customer and potentially upsell.

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365 Retail

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

With 330 bricks-and-mortar stores globally, its digital fashion offering, available in both the UK and US, has experienced fast-growth, and now accounts for 40% of its sales. To do so requires leveraging granular forecasting for online fulfilment and store sales demand, while taking returns into account.”

Markdowns 52

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Retalon

JANUARY 7, 2021

With seasonal product life-cycles becoming ever shorter, retailers need more strategic and granular ways to plan their seasonal assortments so they can maximize revenue while minimizing markdowns. Account for more variables in your seasonal merchandise planning. Planning for seasonal sales has always been a bit of a gamble.

Markdowns 41

Markdowns Promotions Accounting Planning 41

Retalon

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

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.

Markdowns 41

Markdowns Inventory Turnover Fulfillment Accounting 41

Retalon

JANUARY 6, 2021

In reality, replenishment planning is a fairly complicated process that has to account for many variables, including logistics routes, timelines, availability, and cost. The purpose of replenishment is to ensure that a retailer has the right quantity of product, at the right location, at the right time to maximize sales and minimize costs.

Planning 41

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Retalon

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Before we go any further it is important to make a clear distinction between price management and price optimization : Price optimization is the process of identifying the optimal price point for any given product at any given location that will yield the highest profit. You cannot optimize prices without managing them, however.

Management 41

Management Markdowns Accounting Retailing Pricing 41

Retalon

MARCH 2, 2021

Destination resorts that run gift shops must account for occupation rates in their hotels as well as weather. . What sizes should you offer for each product at each location? What unique features, processes, or variables you’d like to include as a business rule or want to be accounted for. For instance, . Do you run promotions?

Fashion 41

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Retalon

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Whether losing sales to out-of-stocks, or facing overstocking costs and markdowns, inefficient stock replenishment has a huge impact on a retailer’s GMROI. There are multiple factors and variables to account for and stay ahead of. In order to shorten replenishment time, the best medicine, as is often the case, is prevention.

Inventory Management 47

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Retalon

APRIL 14, 2021

It needs to be relevant to the current (and upcoming trends), as well as sensitive to the unique geo0demographics of your channels and locations. Don’t use the same product assortment across all locations. Clustering retail locations by common attributes let you tailor the assortment more closely.

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RETAIL MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

MARCH 11, 2022

It is beneficial to exhaust your resources first, so you don’t end up with the excess products in one store that you eventually have to markdown. Account for items you can’t sell – If you cannot sell an item due to damage, make sure it is classified as non-sellable.

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Inventory Management Management Inventory Turnover Drop-Shipping 92

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. Most commonly, retailers use geographical clusters to better account for demographics, distribution cost, climate, and other relevant factors to their business.

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Retalon

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

In turn, consumers now expect these same options to be available across all retail locations (both online and in-store). Advanced analytics tools can pinpoint demand for a specific SKU at a specific location or channel. As a result, retailers are able to have better control and even avoid out-of-stocks and overstocks.

Fulfillment 41

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Retalon

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Drastic Markdowns. Last minute markdowns that offload stock at a loss. Inventory storage, overstock management, ROI lost to markdowns, even lost sales due to stockouts, are all tangible costs of bad inventory. Accounting for all relevant factors requires advanced mathematics and powerful computing. .

Inventory Turnover 41

Inventory Turnover Management Inventory Management Dead-Stock 41

Retalon

OCTOBER 8, 2020

And at the end of the sales season (or at the end of a product’s lifecycle), markdowns you set to clear out excess inventory can easily wipe out the product’s lifecycle profitability. They quickly learn to time their purchases for the inevitable markdowns rather than buying products during the main lifecycle.

Markdowns 41

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Mass Relators

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Shuttering stores will “reduce costs, drive improved profitability and ensure that we have a healthy foundation to grow from, with the right stores in the right locations, for the communities we serve and for our business,” Donigan said. Prescription sales from continuing operations accounted for 71.1 percent of total drugstore sales.

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Retail Adventures

AUGUST 8, 2023

Where are important basics and hot sellers located on the sales floor? o How does the retailer differentiate between full price and markdown merchandise? Google Alerts are still important but you’ll also want to set up free accounts with Mention.com to and TalkWalker.com to learn what’s being said about your store online.

Shopping 52

Shopping Merchant Services Visual Merchandising Markdowns 52

Retalon

APRIL 21, 2021

direct-to-consumer e-commerce orders), retailers now have to worry about fulfilling orders across multiple complex channels and B&M locations. Instead of turning every B&M store into a fulfillment node, some retailers have realized massive cost savings by centralizing fulfillment to a select few locations.

Fulfillment 41

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Retalon

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Retailers carry tens or hundreds of thousands of SKUs, far too many for buyers to accurately forecast every product at each channel/location. The problem stems from business intelligence, buyer intuition, or company targets lacking the ability to account for all factors that affect demand. Key Takeaways. Request a personalized demo.

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Retalon

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Typically unexpected, this situation can be extremely detrimental for retailers and also has the potential to create additional issues such as: Inventory Imbalances Overstocks Markdowns. These advanced analytics solutions generate a highly accurate demand forecast that has already accounted for product cannibalization. Seasonality.

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Retalon

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Retailers carry tens or hundreds of thousands of SKUs, far too many for buyers to accurately forecast every product at each channel/location. The problem stems from business intelligence, buyer intuition, or company targets lacking the ability to account for all factors that affect demand. Key Takeaways.

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Retalon

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Retailers carry tens or hundreds of thousands of SKUs, far too many for buyers to accurately forecast every product at each channel/location. The problem stems from business intelligence, buyer intuition, or company targets lacking the ability to account for all factors that affect demand. Key Takeaways.

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Retalon

APRIL 27, 2021

However, traditional spreadsheet analytics cannot account for store-by-store variations in the promotion’s effectiveness or secondary effects such as demand cannibalization. In effect, this means a reduction of total inventories, maximized sales, and reduced markdowns. Online sales now account for more than 20% of total retail sales.

Fulfillment 41

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Retalon

JUNE 22, 2020

The Cons of using a Sales-based forecast: The problem with this approach is that if you’re a modern retailer that sells through multiple channels, with multiple locations and DCs, a sales-based forecasting will result in far too many exceptions. Demand Forecast Definition.

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Retail Adventures

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

Where are important basics and hot sellers located on the sales floor? o How does the retailer differentiate between full price and markdown merchandise? Google Alerts are still important but you’ll also want to set up free accounts with Mention to and TalkWalker to learn what’s being said about your store online.

Shopping 52

Shopping Merchant Services Visual Merchandising Markdowns 52

Retalon

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

All costs associated with the transfer — from logistics and store capacity to demographic diversity and the sizes and colors most likely to sell at the specific location — are incorporated automatically. In-Stock Percent. But for most retailers, the restocking process doesn’t begin until inventory starts to run low at a specific store.

Markdowns 32

Markdowns Promotions Customer Experience Fulfillment 32

Retalon

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

All costs associated with the transfer — from logistics and store capacity to demographic diversity and the sizes and colors most likely to sell at the specific location — are incorporated automatically. In-Stock Percent. But for most retailers, the restocking process doesn’t begin until inventory starts to run low at a specific store.

Markdowns 32

Markdowns Promotions Customer Experience Fulfillment 32

Retalon

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

All costs associated with the transfer — from logistics and store capacity to demographic diversity and the sizes and colors most likely to sell at the specific location — are incorporated automatically. In-Stock Percent. But for most retailers, the restocking process doesn’t begin until inventory starts to run low at a specific store.

Markdowns 32

Markdowns Promotions Customer Experience Fulfillment 32

Retalon

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Are the right products in stock at the right locations/channels to support the shift in demand? 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? What products might also see an uplift?

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Markdowns Fashion Inventory Management Accounting 32

Retalon

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Are the right products in stock at the right locations/channels to support the shift in demand? 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? What products might also see an uplift?

Markdowns 32

Markdowns Fashion Inventory Management Accounting 32

Retalon

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

In order to understand how to take full advantage of this new technology, we will first explain what demand forecasting actually is, the most common methods of demand forecasting in retail, key constraints that need to be accounted for, and modern examples of accurate demand forecasting. What is Demand Forecasting?

Payment Services 41

Payment Services Promotions Accounting Fulfillment 41

Retalon

DECEMBER 8, 2021

As mentioned earlier, in its simplest form, order fulfillment is the physical process of getting a purchased product from a storage location to the customer. Some factors affecting this decision include the proximity of the storage location to the customer, inventory availability, and the labour involved. What is order fulfillment?

Merchant Services 41

Merchant Services Fulfillment Drop-Shipping Shipping 41

Retalon

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Instead of only shipping to customers’ homes, retailers let online customers shop from their local and online store’s inventory and pick up their orders from their closest brick-and-mortar location the same day. Store-specific information about curbside or in-store pickup locations. Payment, return, and exchange policies.

Fulfillment 41

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Retalon

MARCH 4, 2019

It then calculates the demand of every individual SKU across each location and/or channel and then proactively makes profitable recommendations. Every time a number is changed, the entire plan must be re-calibrated to consolidate the number and make sure it works across all locations, products etc. Inventory Management.

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Retalon

AUGUST 16, 2019

Delivering an experience that feels personalized to shoppers, while also… Creating a consistent experience across retail locations and channels so that customer can enjoy the comfortable familiarity of your brand. Any business that caters to a consumer marketplace deals with 2 common challenges.

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Retalon

AUGUST 16, 2019

In any business undertaking that caters to a consumer marketplace, there are two major challenges – delivering an experience that feels personalized to shoppers, while simultaneously creating a consistent experience across retail locations and channels so that customer can enjoy the comfortable familiarity of your brand.

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Retalon

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

for any human to account for all of them manually. Thus, in order to accurately forecast the future and account for the most important correlations, retail predictive analytics must use a combination of AI, advanced mathematics, and intelligent automation. Are my analytics tools in various retail functions accounting for each other?

Accounting 47

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Retalon

MARCH 9, 2021

Low prices leave little room for promotions or end-of-lifecycle markdowns. These Advanced Analytics tools can account for all of your business constraints, analyze how pricing affects sales performance in your stores, and evaluate many different strategy combinations. Pricing determines your long-term profitability.

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