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. Stock replenishment is the process of ordering and allocating inventory to replace missing products on store shelves. What is replenishment? What is replenishment stock?

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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. Calculate the seasonality for every SKU, at every store. Account for more variables in your seasonal merchandise planning.

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Retalon

OCTOBER 8, 2020

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. Below, we’ll describe 7 guaranteed inventory reduction ideas in some detail. What does reducing inventory levels really mean?

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In addition to this timing variation, over 60% of shoppers plan to do their browsing online, yet 85% expect to buy at least one product in a store. Add it all up and it’s clear that the timing duration, and location of holiday shopping is not like the old days.

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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. Customers stay in their vehicles at designated parking spots, and employees bring their purchases out to the car.

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M19 Retail

MARCH 22, 2021

By incorporating weather information into their forecasts, retailers can realize annual forecast accuracy improvements of up to 30 percent for specific products, time periods, and locations. Up to 70 basis points of additional profit due to increased sales and reduced inventory costs (e.g. carrying costs, markdowns, shrink, etc.).

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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. But at best, this only happens once a quarter (and often at longer intervals). Everything you need to know about product clustering / grouping.

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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

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

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. Each year, inventory imbalances cost retailers an estimated $1.1 trillion annually. Key Takeaways.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 3, 2023

It was at that point that putting the technology and operations in place to fulfill from an increasingly complex supply chain network embarked upon its next frontier. The digital channel typically had one or more dedicated facilities, which ironically were often planned and managed like an individual additional brick-and-mortar location.

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Retalon

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

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. Each year, inventory imbalances cost retailers an estimated $1.1 trillion annually. Key Takeaways.

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Retalon

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

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. Each year, inventory imbalances cost retailers an estimated $1.1 trillion annually. Key Takeaways.

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Retalon

APRIL 21, 2021

At its most basic, order fulfillment is the combination of steps required to get products into the hands of customers. This includes everything from storing inventory, processing orders, picking stock, shipping packages, and delivering orders to the end consumer. Will you deny returns at a store level? Centralizing fulfillment.

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Retalon

DECEMBER 8, 2021

This article will answer those questions while also looking at the best practices being used today, and how to pick the right order fulfillment model. 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. What is order fulfillment?

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Retalon

APRIL 27, 2021

It can analyze billions of data points and predict demand at a level of granularity that’s simply impossible to reach using Excel. to optimize inventory for gross margins. In effect, this means a reduction of total inventories, maximized sales, and reduced markdowns. Order fulfillment automation.

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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? Predictive Analytics looks at data from across your business and can both answer questions and proactively offer solutions.

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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? Predictive Analytics looks at data from across your business and can both answer questions and proactively offer solutions.

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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

AUGUST 20, 2019

The debate over bricks (physical locations) versus clicks (online stores) has long centered on several key factors, including: – Cost efficiency. If you doubt the benefit of such a strategy, just consider the speed at which Amazon has started to acquire physical locations – over 500, including Wholefoods and book stores.

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Retalon

AUGUST 20, 2019

The debate over bricks (physical locations) versus clicks (online stores) has long centered on several key factors, including: – Cost efficiency. If you doubt the benefit of such a strategy, just consider the speed at which Amazon has started to acquire physical locations – over 500, including Wholefoods and book stores.

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Retalon

JULY 4, 2018

Based on the amount of retailers that have been forced to shut their doors in the last three years, there is a major shift that is moving through the retail industry at full force. So what’s the real challenge at hand? If you’re a retailer reading this in 2018, you need to pat yourself on the back!

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M19 Retail

MARCH 17, 2021

MMA is a full-featured mobile application that provides comprehensive in-store inventory management including purchasing, receiving, transfers, stock movements, stock adjustments, and more. Mi9 Retail Launches New In-Store Mobile App to Help Retailers Improve Inventory Management. About Mi9 Retail. Recent Posts.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 20, 2023

GenAI can adapt to resonate and connect at the appropriate level, given the task or resolution at hand. By adjusting prices in real time based on this analysis, retailers can increase revenue, reduce markdowns, and remain competitive in a constantly changing market. GenAI is also transforming inventory management.

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Retalon

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Meanwhile, mobile technology has surged allowing consumers to go shopping on their personal device from their pocket at anytime. This means that no matter where the customer purchases the product they should be able to receive it very quickly at a minimum cost to them, and to the retailer. How do you build a smart fulfillment strategy?

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Retalon

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Meanwhile, mobile technology has surged allowing consumers to go shopping on their personal device from their pocket at anytime. This means that no matter where the customer purchases the product they should be able to receive it very quickly at a minimum cost to them, and to the retailer. How do you build a smart fulfillment strategy?

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Retalon

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

To explain what makes advanced analytics so special, we need to start at the beginning. Retail data analytics is the process of collecting and studying retail data (sales, inventory, pricing, etc.) Promotions and inventory management). What is Retail Data Analytics? Types of Retail Data Analytics. Descriptive Analytics.

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Retalon

NOVEMBER 29, 2014

Meanwhile, mobile technology has surged allowing consumers to go shopping on their personal device from their pocket at anytime. This means that no matter where the customer purchases the product they should be able to receive it very quickly at a minimum cost to them, and to the retailer. How do you build a smart fulfillment strategy?

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I Vend

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

By now, you know you need something more for your inventory management—pen and paper just aren’t going to cut it—but you still have questions about cloud-based inventory management software. Earlier this year, 56% of retail business owners said their inventory management was not accurate. What is it?

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Retalon

JULY 15, 2019

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. How much safety stock is ideal?

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M19 Retail

APRIL 14, 2021

The multiplication of choices induced by this model translates into a drop in productivity of the physical store space and an increase in markdowns at the end of the season to sell unsold products. Retailers today group stores based on a combination of a limited number of attributes such as volume and location.

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Retalon

AUGUST 5, 2020

Is the right product getting to the right place at the right time? But of the myriad options, what are the KPIs in retail that will truly drive profitability and make the best use of a retailer’s substantial inventory investment? Maintaining a healthy In-Stock Percentage at an efficient cost requires a unified approach to retailing.

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Retalon

OCTOBER 18, 2013

One of them is they try to manage inventory inside, sometimes they use a term, turning all my stores into one large distribution center rather than buying or catching a next purchase order from the vendor. Another thing that retailers are trying to do today is to monitor inventory in different locations.

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Retail Prophet

JULY 18, 2022

Indeed, the entire global shipping industry had seemingly run aground – if only metaphorically – as dock workers at many of the world’s largest ports reeled with the effects of the virus. Fully half of the factories in Britain at the time were for cotton production. Less than 200 years earlier, a similar breakdown played out.

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