Retalon

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Bad inventory is an expensive problem. Trillion annually as a result of bad inventory. Managing inventory becomes exponentially more complicated as a retailer grows; and often becomes an overwhelming challenge. Identifying bad inventory can mean the difference between bringing in profits or losses at the end of the year.

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Retalon

JUNE 29, 2013

In order to achieve this there is a lot of thought put into inventory management, allocation, and replenishment processes. Most retailers begin by creating a plan based on the big picture of their business process, and then they purchase the inventory, and allocate it to stores from the DC. Originally Published on PA Times.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Optimizing inventory based on trends and historical data means the customer will get the exact item they are looking for. Returns are increasing labor costs due to inspection and restocking time and often cause markdowns, out-of-stock and logistics expenses to increase. Retailers can also create a return policy that avoids waste.

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Retalon

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Why should retailers care about their Order Fulfillment Process? Order fulfillment may seem like a fairly straightforward process and according to the generic “high-level” definition, it is. In today’s market, putting the right fulfillment system in place gets you a competitive edge. What is order fulfillment?

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Retalon

APRIL 21, 2021

Omnichannel order fulfillment that drives customer experience (and boosts profits). Although the trend towards omnichannel fulfillment is not new, the pandemic changed many retailers’ business models almost overnight, and these changes are not going away. What is omnichannel order fulfillment in retail?

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 3, 2023

By my recollection, the world of flexible fulfillment hit an inflection point about 15 years ago. 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. Let’s start with demand forecasting and inventory deployment.

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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. So, how are retailers managing stock replenishment today?

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In this kind of shopping environment, how should retailers align their promotions and markdowns for the greatest impact? Keeping in mind as well the need to optimize their supply chain fulfillment to meet consumer delivery expectations while managing parcel carrier costs?

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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. A retail fulfillment process that is known as BOPIS — Buy Online, Pickup In-Store. What is BOPIS?

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Retalon

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

What retailers need is a strategy to allow stores to become fulfillment centers. This means that a store must not only carry enough inventory to satisfy forecasted demand, but also additional stock to satisfy any online or mobile orders that will be fulfilled though their location. How do you build a smart fulfillment strategy?

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Retalon

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

What retailers need is a strategy to allow stores to become fulfillment centers. This means that a store must not only carry enough inventory to satisfy forecasted demand, but also additional stock to satisfy any online or mobile orders that will be fulfilled though their location. How do you build a smart fulfillment strategy?

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Retalon

NOVEMBER 29, 2014

What retailers need is a strategy to allow stores to become fulfillment centers. This means that a store must not only carry enough inventory to satisfy forecasted demand, but also additional stock to satisfy any online or mobile orders that will be fulfilled though their location. How do you build a smart fulfillment strategy?

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Retalon

APRIL 27, 2021

to optimize inventory for gross margins. In effect, this means a reduction of total inventories, maximized sales, and reduced markdowns. More importantly, an analytics-driven retailer no longer reacts to sales and inventory reports, but instead proactively optimizes its business. Order fulfillment automation.

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Retalon

MARCH 4, 2019

Retail is changing faster than ever, and keeping up fulfilment needs, competitive pricing, and trendy assortment is costly. Inventory Management. Traditional inventory management is fragmented silo work that doesn’t take other processes into account. Modern retailing requires a different approach.

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Retalon

JANUARY 5, 2021

Most of today’s inventory management issues start at the level of forecasting. For example, allocation applications use modeling tools to divide incoming inventory among stores, warehouses, and fulfillment centers based on a dynamic demand forecast. Why isn’t the current method working?

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Retalon

AUGUST 20, 2019

What do consumer purchasing habits look like, and how streamlined is your fulfillment process? For starters, you need omni-channel visibility that ensures customers have access to the same inventory across platforms. – Inventory management. – Price management & optimization. – Inventory needs.

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Retalon

AUGUST 20, 2019

What do consumer purchasing habits look like, and how streamlined is your fulfillment process? For starters, you need omni-channel visibility that ensures customers have access to the same inventory across platforms. – Inventory management. – Price management & optimization. – Inventory needs.

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Retalon

AUGUST 16, 2019

How can you juggle concerns like forecasting, inventory management, distribution, fulfillment, and more against the growing demand for personalization, all while continuing to create the consistent experience customers expect? From a Customer side, nobody likes being bombarded by ads & products they don’t want or need.

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Retalon

AUGUST 2, 2019

Businesses collect more data than ever before and from every aspect of the supply and demand chain—logistics; vendor compliancy/lead times; POS data; inventory levels; traffic cameras; prices; markdowns; consumer behavior; demand forecasts; and more. Consider the way retailers traditionally forecast fulfillment.

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Retalon

AUGUST 16, 2019

So, how can you juggle concerns like forecasting, inventory management, distribution, fulfillment, and more against the growing demand for personalization, all while continuing to create the consistent experience customers expect ? From a Customer side, nobody likes being bombarded by ads & products they don’t want or need.

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Retalon

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Without a solid demand forecast, you risk misallocating inventory and missing your revenue targets while watching turns collapse. Fixing the problem through stock rebalancing or price markdowns will be expensive. Not to mention lost opportunity of bringing another product instead and losing cash.

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Retalon

AUGUST 2, 2019

Inventory levels (store, warehouse, distribution centers). Prices (markdowns, promotions, competitor prices, etc.). Consider the way retailers traditionally forecast fulfillment. Add in a final fly-by-your-gut manual tweak and the fulfillment forecast would be ready. POS data (sales, returns, etc.). Demand forecasts.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

According to the researchers at the Auburn University RFID Lab, a typical brick-and-mortar retailer without RFID has about 60% SKU-level accuracy, which is simply not acceptable anymore to keep up with consumer demands for speedy fulfillment and a wide product selection. RFID can raise inventory visibility up to 99%. RFID and Beyond.

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Retalon

JULY 4, 2018

Ultimately many retailers will often compete on the fulfillment strategy. A Forrester research team surveyed retailers on what they plan to implement to support fulfillment efforts. This dynamic fulfillment approach isn’t just the reality of where retailers need to be today, but it is also highly profitable.

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Retalon

DECEMBER 22, 2014

Retalon is known for Smart Fulfillment. Smart Fulfillment is a small, but important part of it, and I will address it in the next question. Regarding omni-channel fulfillment, how does predictive analytics help retailers take action on the data and deliver better results? Originally posted on Retail IT Insights.

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Retalon

DECEMBER 22, 2014

Retalon is known for Smart Fulfillment. Smart Fulfillment is a small, but important part of it, and I will address it in the next question. Regarding omni-channel fulfillment, how does predictive analytics help retailers take action on the data and deliver better results? Originally posted on Retail IT Insights.

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Retalon

AUGUST 14, 2023

Inventory management, order fulfillment, and sales data are integrated in one centralized system instead of siloed by channel. Why Omnichannel Ecommerce Strategy is Important for High-Revenue Retailers Omnichannel strategy is especially crucial for high-volume retailers managing millions in revenue.

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Retalon

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

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. For instance, many retailers run promotions while lacking integration between promotion and inventory management processes.

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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. 3. Logistics and fulfillment challenges.

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Retalon

AUGUST 5, 2020

The inventory sitting in stores and warehouses is the single biggest investment that a retailer makes. Throughout the history of retail, success and failure has come down to how well a company manages — and profits from — its inventory investment. How to Improve Inventory Turnover Ratio. In-Stock Percentage.

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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. Bob Johns: Interesting.

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