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7 Tips for Wholesale Inventory Management

Independent Retailer

Wholesale inventory bloat, combined with a softening demand in the economy, is taking its toll on cash flow and earnings at retailers. . billion of inventory in October, a 21% increase from last year, according to the U.S. “Seemingly overnight, shortages are flipping to inventory surpluses in certain categories.

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Choosing a Distribution Model: Drop Shipping vs Traditional Inventory

Retail Bound

One of the topics that consistently comes up in the retail world is the logistics of shipping. From the manufacturers to the distributors, to your retail store – there are many factors and unexpected costs to consider during the shipping process that can be often overlooked. Choose a model that can scale with your growth trajectory.

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Do You Have What It Takes to go from Wholesale to DTC?

Retail TouchPoints

If you’re a wholesale retailer or brand owner and you haven’t already launched a direct-to-consumer sales channel, you’d better be thinking about it. The global pandemic not only accelerated the growth in ecommerce, it highlighted the shortcomings of wholesale-only sales channels. to visit your website. Fulfillment and Returns.

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Dropshipping: Fashion’s favourite fulfilment method?

Inside Retail

Now, we’re moving further up the supply chain, with manufacturers and suppliers doing the same, shunning wholesale distribution in favour of a different model. Brand fulfilment and digital concessions are on the rise, which is more or less a form of dropshipping, except the goods are shipped directly from the supplier in branded packaging.

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Meet Nakedvice, the brand founded by best friends in the Sportsgirl stockroom

Inside Retail

Both Miller and Gargan worked at Tiger Mist, another Australian fashion brand, before Miller moved on to work at Sass & Bide and Gargan went into product development at S&R Fashions, a design, development and supplier of women’s fashion garments to retailers and branded wholesalers.

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Aloha wegg® Fans: Get Ready for Our Next Wegginar® With Kiani Wong from Kaka?ako Kasuals on 11/3 at 11AM CT

LS Retail

She specializes in B2B wholesale trade, sourcing, inventory management and product development for her company. Kiakahi (Kiani) Wong is the President and CEO of Kaka?ako ako Kasuals, a Native Hawaiian-owned and operated footwear company based in Honolulu, Hawai'i.

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Digital Transformation Propels Burton’s Omnichannel Growth Plans

Retail TouchPoints

Burton’s business has changed over the years, from almost exclusively wholesale to a 75%/25% mix of wholesale and DTC, but its systems hadn’t changed with it, explained Josee Larocque, Burton’s SVP of DTC and Digital Transformation in an interview with Retail TouchPoints.

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