Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 6, 2023

Opportunity #1: Cost-efficient inventory management. When the amount of recommerce inventory grows, sourcing products can become a complex endeavor. Levi’s probably doesn’t have that issue, as it has created a recommerce model that streamlines inventory management.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 10, 2023

For consumer-packaged goods (CPG) brands wanting to lead their category at major retailers, it’s critical to be strategic and adaptable with a logistics strategy. While many brands try to shave pennies off transactional transportation costs, that won’t drive long-term success in retail locations.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

As Zebra Technologies’ downloadable e-book Lift Productivity and Improve Execution for the Next-Gen Workforce explains, today’s customers want retailers’ workforces to pick their goods, pack them, ship them, deliver them and return them – all without diminishing in-store service.

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Retail Focus

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Ben Balfour, Business Operations Director at Advanced Supply Chain Group , shares top tips about how retailers can prepare their supply chains for a Black Friday and Christmas sales surge. Ben Balfour, Business Operations Director at Advanced Supply Chain Group. The first affects stock inventory management.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 3, 2024

Think about the everyday shopper: for many, the nearest returns location isn’t just around the corner. Then there’s the hassle of printing a return label, carefully repackaging the dress and taking time out of her busy day to drop it off at a shipping location. So why do customers delay returns?

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Inside Retail

MARCH 7, 2024

The brand was co-founded in 2014 by best friends Sarah Miller and Jessie Gargan, who were 23 and 26, respectively, at the time. They had met five years prior when Gargan hired Miller as a Christmas casual at Sportsgirl.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 20, 2022

For most stores with multiple locations, procurement has largely been a centralized process, with each location requesting and receiving inventory from the parent corporation, as needed. Vishal Patel is VP of Product Marketing and Technology at Ivalua. But that’s only part of the story.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Here are four key ways retailers can secure sales this season: Understand inventory Retailers need to have an accurate understanding of inventory. If retailers are to thrive this holiday season, they must improve inventory data and its visibility. Jamie Cairns is chief strategy officer at Fluent Commerce.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 11, 2021

The dramatic increase in ecommerce volume triggered by the pandemic increased many retailers’ topline revenues, but many are finding it difficult to contain the costs of new types of order fulfillment such as BOPIS, ship-from-store and curbside pickup, according to a report from Incisiv , commissioned by Manhattan Associates Inc.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The Retail TouchPoints 2022 Retail Strategy & Planning (#RSP22) webinar series, now available on-demand, offered a wealth of tips and best practices across critical areas including pricing, location-based technology, inventory management and marketplaces. Differentiating on product and price has become harder and harder.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

This instability, together with increased gas and energy prices, has affected shipping costs. Set benchmarks for inventory management, including the rate of inventory turnover and tracking and fill rate. Unstable political environments in Europe and the Middle East can disrupt supply chains. per cent and 1.8

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Last year, COVID-19 lockdowns that restricted shopping at brick-and-mortar stores sent shoppers online. But this “new normal” requires retailers to have access to accurate inventory data — often across multiple channels, both in-store and online. Ashish Sahu is Head of Product and Solution Marketing at Redis.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 28, 2022

According to recent research, the global warehouse automation market is estimated to grow at a CAGR of 14%, reaching $30 billion by 2026. They offer the greatest flexibility and visibility in the network and reduce systemwide inventory carrying costs; and.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 21, 2022

Companies with supply chains that span the globe often struggle with standardizing their processes, partly because different locations use different systems of record. All they know is that shipping delays require them to look elsewhere to meet their needs. 3 Ways to Modernize Your Supply Chain Management Processes.

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Retail Minded

OCTOBER 20, 2022

In this guide, you’ll learn about improving your online store’s inventory system by keeping track of the necessary online store and stock management requirements. Automate With An Inventory Management System. A manual inventory system should be enough when your online store is still in its first few months of operation.

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Rain Pros

AUGUST 18, 2023

Customers can easily access different products, compare prices, discover new brands and make purchases from anywhere, anytime, at their own pace. It can differentiate retail stores online and put you ahead of your competitors by ensuring you can deliver the right products faster, to the right place, on time and at the right price.

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Rain Pros

AUGUST 18, 2023

Customers can easily access different products, compare prices, discover new brands and make purchases from anywhere, anytime, at their own pace. It can differentiate retail stores online and put you ahead of your competitors by ensuring you can deliver the right products faster, to the right place, on time and at the right price.

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Retail Bound

APRIL 17, 2023

A 3PL provider can handle everything from warehousing and transportation to order fulfillment and inventory management. Location and Transportation For an eCommerce brand, shipping costs can account for between 50% to 80% of the product’s landed cost. Choosing the right 3PL is crucial to the success of your business.

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Retail Bound

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Reduced Shipping Costs and Time-To-Customer. Currently, Amazon can ship to 72% of the US population in just a day. Since customers are highly influenced by delivery timelines and shipping costs, working with a 3PL with strategically located distribution centers can give your business competitive delivery and cost options.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 25, 2022

In the retail industry, many organizations are at a pivotal moment of forging a path forward to define the future-state customer experience where the physical and digital converge. If shipping is delayed and orders are late, tell your customers. 4) Think Big: Improve supply chain and inventory management.

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Retail Times

MARCH 16, 2021

It may not be the sexiest part of your store, and it doesn’t get a lot of customer eyeballs, but your stockroom is still a critical part of your physical location. Manage it right, and the stockroom will help you run a tight ship. Utilize inventory management software. But if you mismanage it? Good news, though!

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Wiser

DECEMBER 15, 2020

As an eCommerce or direct-to-consumer business , you don’t have the luxury of working with retail partners that can help with shipping, warehousing, distribution, and other key supply chain tasks. Some 3PL providers simply cover partial supply chain services, offering only warehousing, distribution, shipping and receiving, etc.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 2, 2023

One such advancement is the development of Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs), which have been implemented by a range of companies – including Catch, Toys R Us , and a number of other retailers – for task enhancements ranging from inventory management, order fulfilment, delivery and customer service.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Spanish fashion retailer Encuentro Moda is deploying a radio frequency identification solution across its 125 stores, both to meet omnichannel requirements and to gain visibility into the stock availability at each store and throughout the supply chain. D Cloud RFID inventory-management software. Each store employs the Nedap !D

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365 Retail

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Ben Balfour, Business Operations Director at Advanced Supply Chain Group , shares top tips about how retailers can prepare their supply chains for a Black Friday and Christmas sales surge. Ben Balfour, Business Operations Director at Advanced Supply Chain Group. The first affects stock inventory management.

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Retail Focus

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Senior retail consultant at Univers Retail | Published author | Visiting lecturer. As consumption is becoming less focused on the product and more focused on the experience of accessing the product, new brand management practices are being shaped, whether at luxury or mass industry levels. Ghalia BOUSTANI, PhD.

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Independent Retailer

JANUARY 19, 2023

With an omnichannel customer strategy, real-time inventory management, returns of online goods, personalized shopping, and touch-free, frictionless checkouts, a proper IT network in place is critically important. To support options such as curbside pickup or buy online and ship to store , these connections must always be on.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 20, 2020

While the latter may be true, excess inventory also has a silver lining of hidden pathways to optimizing excess inventory that lead straight to your bottom line through distribution in the off-price retail market. In turn, brands should view their affiliation with off-price retailers as opportunistic partnerships.

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Retalon

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Stock replenishment is the process of ordering and allocating inventory to replace missing products on store shelves. Replenishing stock is a key facet of inventory management which helps to balance inventory levels during a selling period. Let’s take a look at the pros and cons of the 4 most commonly used strategies: 1.

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Small Biz Trends

JUNE 25, 2022

Take a look at the online businesses for sale in June. The seller is going to provide training on CRM systems, website and Instagram upkeep, and maintenance of inventory. The business is located in Colmar, PA with an asking price of $300,000 and a cash flow of $165,000. READ MORE: How to Buy a Business. Online Pet Gadget Store.

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Small Biz Trends

JUNE 29, 2023

Multitasking abilities: Representatives often handle multiple tasks and a variety of customer concerns at once. Customer Service Representative Officer Job Description: Templates for Hiring at Your Business To simplify the process, here are some templates you can use and customize to fit your organization’s needs.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 29, 2020

The company owns and operates 34 locations, both flagships or outlets, and the remainder are owned and operated by partners such as high-end resorts. That’s my job at Burton nowadays,” she recalled. The Burton name is on 66 stores in 10. countries and the principality of Andorra, as well as the U.S.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 24, 2023

In-store innovation Retailers continue to overhaul legacy systems and integrate in-store tech at pace, with one goal – a seamless customer experience. Retailers are sitting on a wealth of data that can be leveraged to predict behaviours, opening the door to personalised experiences that can be accessed at any brand touchpoint.

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Wiser

DECEMBER 29, 2020

In this article, we’ll look at fourth-party logistics. 3PL is the process of outsourcing logistics processes, such as inventory management, procurement, warehousing, and fulfillment, to a specialized provider. Look at Your 3PL Partner First. Can They Work With Your Existing 3PL Providers?

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Global Shop

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

After going live with Global Shop Solutions ERP software, CSS experienced improved inventory management and scheduling, particularly when they implemented automated processes. Go Digital For Inventory and Material Movement Poor inventory management has more impact on productivity than any process, with the exception of scheduling.

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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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Wiser

JANUARY 19, 2021

Should you ship your products directly to retail stores and bypass the go-between, or is there something to be said for letting your retail partners own the distribution to individual stores? This is a question every brand and manufacturer has to contend with at some point. Fragile products are at a disadvantage here.

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