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

Retail Focus

Supply chains must be agile enough to cope with unexpected gaps in workforces, which involves two levels of contingency planning. The first affects stock inventory management. The second level of contingency planning involves personnel resourcing strategies. 3) Scale up scenario planning.

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

365 Retail

Supply chains must be agile enough to cope with unexpected gaps in workforces, which involves two levels of contingency planning. The first affects stock inventory management. The second level of contingency planning involves personnel resourcing strategies. 3) Scale up scenario planning.

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As the Holidays Approach, it’s Time to Rethink Retail Pricing Methodology…and AI Can Help

Retail TouchPoints

In addition to this timing variation, over 60% of shoppers plan to do their browsing online, yet 85% expect to buy at least one product in a store. Many retailers used to approach promotions in a standardized, blanketed way, but with AI, they can now zero in on what Gartner calls the customer’s “biting point.”

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5 Killer Ecommerce Pricing Strategies for Max Profits (2023)

Retalon

Ready to master the art and science of profitable online retail pricing? Understanding the Basics of Ecommerce Pricing Strategies Before looking at specific tactics and tools, we need to cover some ecommerce pricing fundamentals. Inelastic demand for a higher-priced product can lead to excess inventory accumulating.

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Online vs. Offline Retail – Blurring the Line between Bricks and Clicks

Retalon

Over the last couple of decades, the challenges facing retailers have changed significantly, causing brands to rethink traditional strategies. It used to be that brands differentiated by delivering unique, hard-to-find products, or by lowering retail pricing to undercut direct competitors. – Inventory management.

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Retail AI & Predictive Analytics Blur the Line between Bricks and Clicks

Retalon

Over the last couple of decades, the challenges facing retailers have changed significantly, causing brands to rethink traditional strategies. It used to be that brands differentiated by delivering unique, hard-to-find products, or by lowering retail pricing to undercut direct competitors. – Inventory management.

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Ideoclick Expands Advertising Expertise to Instacart, Walmart and Target

Retail TouchPoints

Other benefits of the platform include: Ability to measure share of search on Amazon : Brands can use Ideoclick’s flagship methodology to compare with peers on percentage of estimated traffic, star ratings, review counts, price points and more for chosen search terms; Holistic “one-stop-shop” management: Ideoclick strategists can help companies build (..)