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How Hot Topic and Lamps Plus Mastered Inventory Management and More

Retail TouchPoints

Smart retailers are realizing that their increasingly complex omnichannel offerings have made strong supply chain management more important than ever. Retailers need to handle inventory in stores and distribution centers, keep an eye on both digital and physical shelves and keep costs down with efficient logistics and routing.

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How to Build a Modern Supply Chain That’s Built to Last

Retail TouchPoints

Retailers are well aware of the limitations of traditional supply chain management tactics. Companies with supply chains that span the globe often struggle with standardizing their processes, partly because different locations use different systems of record. Develop concurrency across your supply chain.

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Preparing For Peak; Five Tips For Getting Supply Chains Fit For The Festive Season

Retail Focus

There are numerous headlines about shipping delays and stock shortages, and growing concerns about getting goods to the UK in time to satisfy festive sales demand. Months and months of rising shipping costs are creating some optimism that the surge in transportation prices is nearing its peak. 2) Create contingencies.

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Demand Forecasting in Supply Chain – Getting it Right in 2024

Retalon

While nearly three-quarters of all retailers still rely on simple, and consequently limited, tools such as Excel spreadsheets, the integration of AI-driven technologies in supply chain management is revolutionizing how demand forecasting for forward-thinking retailers. What is supply chain demand forecasting?

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Survival guide: The keys to resilience and success in tough times

Inside Retail

Unstable political environments in Europe and the Middle East can disrupt supply chains. This instability, together with increased gas and energy prices, has affected shipping costs. Set benchmarks for inventory management, including the rate of inventory turnover and tracking and fill rate. per cent and 1.8

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How to Win in the Real-Time Holiday Retail Era

Retail TouchPoints

With potentially fewer items available on the shelves this year and shipping timelines longer than ever before, retailers must be able to identify where items are located at a given moment, at the right price. Optimized supply chain management to avoid stockouts and overstocking.

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Preparing For Peak; Five Tips For Getting Supply Chains Fit For The Festive Season

365 Retail

There are numerous headlines about shipping delays and stock shortages, and growing concerns about getting goods to the UK in time to satisfy festive sales demand. Months and months of rising shipping costs are creating some optimism that the surge in transportation prices is nearing its peak. 2) Create contingencies.