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4 Critical Steps for Optimizing Omnichannel Order Fulfillment in 2021

Retalon

Omnichannel order fulfillment that drives customer experience (and boosts profits). Consumer expectations have evolved in the digital age, and retailers are now offering a multitude of flexible order delivery methods such as “Buy online, pick up in-store”, “curbside pickup”, “order in store, deliver home” and more.

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Is Your Fulfillment Strategy Healthy Enough to Keep Pace with Customer Expectations?

Retail TouchPoints

It was no longer enough to route orders to a handful of DCs and drop ship vendors. Doing extensive online research, and then opting for the speed of curbside pickup over ship to address? Checking inventory in a local store but not placing an order?

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Top 3 Challenges in Demand Forecasting, and How Analytics Solves Them (2022)

Retalon

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. Customer experience. Unfortunately, approximations often lead to lost sales, drastic markdowns, and unfulfilled potential. Reduced markdowns.

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The Order Fulfillment Process in 2022 and Beyond

Retalon

Some factors affecting this decision include the proximity of the storage location to the customer, inventory availability, and the labour involved. Methods are established to transfer inventory from storage to customer. Customer preference (fulfillment). Why is this happening? What fulfillment options are available? Allocation.

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Marks & Spencer’s Turnaround Strategy, Why it’s Working

Indigo 9 Digital

That means if there is slow moving merchandise the retailer doesn’t have to worry about taking markdowns to sell the inventory. To attract more digital customers Marks & Spencer has deployed shopping features like scan & shop as well as click and collect. While this may seem counterintuitive it gives customers more control.

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How Smaller Assortments, Lower Inventory Levels Can Maximize Post-COVID Success

Retail TouchPoints

By creating narrower product assortments and limiting inventory levels — especially for product shipments headed to brick-and-mortar stores —merchants would gain the ability to react more quickly to changing consumer trends, and even potentially reduce their need for markdowns. Richard Maicki. Keith Jelinek.