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Product Substitution: How Savvy Retailers and Manufacturers can Build Supply Chain Resiliency, Reduce Costs and Improve Customer Experiences

Retail TouchPoints

Shipping delays and stockouts lead to frustration and disappointment, especially when logistical problems impact time-sensitive purchases, such as special occasion gifts, event tickets or prescription medications. In manufacturing, product substitution can be a valuable tool for optimizing inventory management.

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Different Things to Consider Outsourcing in Your Retail Business (and Why)

Retail Focus

Order Fulfillment When outsourcing, retailers can benefit from streamlined inventory management, order processing, and shipping. Third-party logistic experts possess the infrastructure, expertise, and technology required to handle outsourcing order fulfillment with precision.

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Five Best Practices In Retail Inventory Management

Retail Minded

These scanners use radio waves to read electronic tags on products, allowing quick and accurate inventory location and quantity identification. Streamlined Fulfillment Processes In retail inventory management, fulfillment processes can be a source of costly errors like incorrect order quantities or shipping delays.

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4 Top Inventory Management Techniques and Best Practices

RETAIL MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

Offering discounts and promotions are effective methods for moving stagnant inventory through the purchase cycle. Utilize drop shipments to avoid excess inventory on hand – Drop-shipping products allow you transfer customer orders directly to the manufacturer.

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

Retalon

When Inventory is proactively allocated among locations to meet demand, customers are not repeatedly met with empty shelves pushing them to other retailers. Order fulfillment becomes more efficient; meeting consumer expectations by enabling lower shipping costs, faster fulfillment, and a greater variety of fulfillment options.

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How the Supply Chain Disruption Is Sparking Holiday Risk & Resilience

Rangeme

Shipping delays. Trans-Pacific cargo ships face bottlenecks in major ports like Los Angeles, and these shipping delays threaten access to merchandise. Product prices will continue to rise as companies incur higher shipping, labor, and raw material costs. Labor constraints push Amazon to redirect inventory.