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Inventory Accuracy: The Not-so-Secret Ingredient for Holiday Sales Success

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With Salesforce’s 2023 holiday predictions forecasting that BOPIS (buying items online for in-store or curbside pickup) will influence $28 billion in incremental sales during the holiday season, retailers seeking to capitalize on this revenue opportunity need to ensure their store operations and inventory management practices are up to par.

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Nordstrom Issues Supplier Mandate for RFID Tagging

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RFID-ticketed products are not yet required for drop-ship suppliers. FineLine Technologies is working with vendors that RFID source-tag at their factories, Davidson reported, and that now use the technology for automated outbound shipment verification and automatic advance shipping notification generation.

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How to Win in the Real-Time Holiday Retail Era

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This enables a robust omnichannel retail strategy that delivers a unified, seamless and consistent customer experience across all physical stores, websites and mobile apps. Contemporaneous inventory capabilities, enabling a consistent view of stock availability across every internal and external-facing channel.

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Digital Transformation Propels Burton’s Omnichannel Growth Plans

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After investigating multiple solutions over a period of months, Burton selected the NewStore Omnichannel Platform, which provides mobile POS through iPhone apps and gives personnel on the retail floor visibility into customer, product and inventory data. It’s really a holistic approach,” she said. “We

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

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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. Checking inventory in a local store but not placing an order?

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Vitamin Shoppe CEO Sharon Leite Went Undercover in Her Stores. Here’s What She Learned.

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Leite’s experience on the show not only amplified her “people-first” leadership philosophy, but also prompted a number of investments to address problems she uncovered while undercover, including: $500,000 on product education for store associates, known as Health Enthusiasts; $1.5 million on inventory management solutions; $1.2

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Despite COVID, Spanish Retailer Rolls Out RFID Across 125 Stores in One Month

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D Cloud RFID inventory-management software. The retailer can track stock levels at each store and warehouse in real time, enabling online stores to reflect accurate stock levels at all sites. RFID tag-read data is captured, stored and analyzed in Nedap’s ! . The rollout was completed in October 2020.