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Why Data Will Drive the Future of Inventory Management

Retail TouchPoints

While COVID-19 slowed the world down to a standstill, it greatly accelerated the growth of online shopping. Today’s customers have high expectations, so any retailer must ensure customers have the best possible experience when shopping with them. In the years to come, AI will prove extremely useful in supply chain management.

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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 Revolutionize Inventory Management

Independent Retailer

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. COVID-19 lockdowns accelerated a shift to online shopping that was already well underway. Common Inventory Management Headaches. by Paula Biste.

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Grocery expo highlights tech’s role in ‘unified’ shopping experiences

Retail Customer Experience

The technology displayed at groceryshop covered many aspects of grocery retailing — from omnichannel integration to in-store promotions to inventory management to visual merchandising to supply chain management — much including self service applications.

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How independent eCommerce retailers can optimise stock inventory management during peak

365 Retail

According to Google, online sales throughout November and December can account for up to 30% of a company’s annual sales, while peak shopping dates such as Black Friday deliver upwards of three times more traffic for online retailers. With the right solution, and support, they don’t need to be supply chain experts to do this.

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From smart mirrors to in-car shopping: the tech shaping retail’s future

Inside Retail

This can be seen by the adoption of QR codes – the use of which accelerated amid Covid-19 restrictions – self checkout in supermarkets and autonomous mobile robots, which are being utilised by major retailers for (among other things) logistical, supply chain and other inventory management tasks.

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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 most efficient and effective supply chains embrace uncertainty – something that’s turbocharged during planning for peak.