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The Top 5 Retail ERP Software Features to Look For

Retail TouchPoints

Every business has a number of core processes, units and departments that each function as vital cogs in the machinery, including manufacturing, order management, purchasing inventory, accounting, human resources, financial management and so much more. A supply chain management module can help you with this as well.

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How to Build a Modern Supply Chain That’s Built to Last

Retail TouchPoints

Retailers are well aware of the limitations of traditional supply chain management tactics. Companies with supply chains that span the globe often struggle with standardizing their processes, partly because different locations use different systems of record.

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How Hot Topic and Lamps Plus Mastered Inventory Management and More

Retail TouchPoints

Smart retailers are realizing that their increasingly complex omnichannel offerings have made strong supply chain management more important than ever. The retailer has seen digital sales shift away from next-day deliveries, which now account for just 18.2%

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Demand Forecasting in Supply Chain – Getting it Right in 2024

Retalon

While nearly three-quarters of all retailers still rely on simple, and consequently limited, tools such as Excel spreadsheets, the integration of AI-driven technologies in supply chain management is revolutionizing how demand forecasting for forward-thinking retailers. What is supply chain demand forecasting?

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Five key strategies for retailers to master private label success

Inside Retail

” Globally, private-label products account for 19.4 Using Centric PLM’s supplier portal and its real-time communication capabilities, retailers can access up-to-date information on suppliers, lead times, costs and other data needed for effective product development and supply chain management.

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Analysis: Synergies begin to show after merger of SEA hypermarkets

Inside Retail

Makro, the biggest cash-and-carry operator in Southeast Asia, was already something of a beast in wholesale and retail terms: it operated 154 warehouse-style units with an average size of just under 5,400sqm, selling to both retailers and end consumers in major cities and secondary locations, mostly in Thailand and Malaysia. billion baht ($9.4

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How global beauty brands will benefit from JD.com’s latest logistics move

Inside Retail

Xue stated that JD Logistics already operates several self-operated warehouses across key European locations, including the UK, France, Germany and more. For example, in 2023, beauty and skincare products from France accounted for 58 per cent of all French goods ordered on JD’s cross-border e-commerce platform,” he pointed out.