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

Retail TouchPoints

Applying this practice, retailers can proactively troubleshoot stockouts and delays to ensure that customers’ orders can still be fulfilled to their satisfaction in a timely manner. 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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How China’s Missfresh Makes Rapid Grocery Delivery Pay

Retail TouchPoints

In China small local shops, known as “neighborhood retail,” are big business, generating 1.3 It is common practice for customers to shop daily for the fresh produce they need, and Missfresh’s goal is to digitize that local fresh food experience with the added convenience of doorstep delivery. A New Kind of ‘Neighborhood Retail’.

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How to Revolutionize Inventory Management

Independent Retailer

Having insufficient stock to fulfill demand results in missed sales, causes reputational damage, and sends customers to competitors. Next-generation analytical and planning tools interpret vast volumes of data so that retailers can predict and react to disruptions before they affect inventory levels. by Paula Biste.

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How the Supply Chain Disruption Is Sparking Holiday Risk & Resilience

Rangeme

To avoid out-of-stocks, many companies have conscientiously prepared for an earlier surge in holiday shopping. Beauty rival Sephora is using artificial intelligence (AI)-based demand forecasting to increase inventory turnover and product availability with greater accuracy and efficiency. Retail Dive. October 4, 2021.

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The four essential functions of a retail POS system

I Vend

This level of flexibility reduces lost sales, maximises inventory turnover and increases customer satisfaction along with revenue and profit. It will help to manage loyalty for example, so that your customers are recognised and rewarded in the same way no matter how and where they shop.