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What are Retail Markdowns?

Wiser

Inventory management will rarely be the only thing that makes a retailer successful, but it can absolutely be the something that breaks you. Knowing what your customers like is one thing, but understanding how much of each item you need on shelves and how to price them is where inventory management can go awry.

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Academy Sports + Outdoors Expands Revionics Partnership to Optimize Customer-Centric Pricing

Retail TouchPoints

As part of the new multiyear agreement — which builds upon a partnership that started in 2016 — Academy will use the Revionics Base Price and Markdown solutions to not only optimize its pricing strategy but better manage inventory levels throughout the product lifecycle.

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7 Expert Tips Guaranteed to Reduce Inventory Costs (2020)

Retalon

More expensive than real estate, merchandising, or even labor — inventory is the largest investment your company makes. But getting the biggest return on that investment, especially in today’s tough retail environment, requires a more nuanced, data-driven approach to inventory management than most retailers are used to.

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Mi9 Retail and Planalytics Partner to Improve Demand Forecasting Accuracy and Increase Profitability for Retailers by Incorporating Weather Analytics

M19 Retail

MIAMI, FLORIDA, March 22, 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 retail planning is pleased to announce a strategic partnership with Planalytics, the leading provider of weather-informed demand analytics and insights.

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The Order Fulfillment Process in 2022 and Beyond

Retalon

Many cope by using generalized approaches for allocation like category-level inventory management. Knowing demand at SKU/store level means that inventory is allocated to the customer’s closest location. Fulfillment models that work for apparel may not work as well for appliances. Order Processing.

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How Data Analytics is Saving the Fashion Industry (2020)

Retalon

Fashion and apparel retailers are also dealing with distribution of sizes, colors, and styles, all of which are complicated further by shifting seasonality. 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.

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Causes of Retail Overstock and Best Ways to Avoid Them.

Retalon

Not only do overstock situations force retailers to markdown inventory at the end of a season at slim-to-no profit margins, but it also takes up physical space in stores warehouses, accruing carrying costs, and ties up extra cash that could be used towards advancing business goals. 6. Buying and assortment planning.