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

Retail TouchPoints

Shipping delays and stockouts lead to frustration and disappointment, especially when logistical problems impact time-sensitive purchases, such as special occasion gifts, event tickets or prescription medications. Saxena’s previous product experience is in building retail planning solutions at Blue Yonder.

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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. This frees up your time to focus on strategic decision-making, financial planning, and growth initiatives. This leads to improved inventory turnover and reduced instances of overstock or stockouts.

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

Inside Retail

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. Continue to review minimum stock limits and develop contingency plans should supply issues emerge.

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Five Best Practices In Retail Inventory Management

Retail Minded

Streamlined Fulfillment Processes In retail inventory management, fulfillment processes can be a source of costly errors like incorrect order quantities or shipping delays. Efficient Reordering Retail inventory management requires efficient reordering to prevent stockouts and overstocking, which can be costly for your business.

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How the Supply Chain Disruption Is Sparking Holiday Risk & Resilience

Rangeme

Shipping delays. Trans-Pacific cargo ships face bottlenecks in major ports like Los Angeles, and these shipping delays threaten access to merchandise. As contingency plans, more executives are finding new vendor partners and sourcing domestically to keep their supply chains closer to home. Source: SEI. 2 Unglesbee, Ben.

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4 Top Inventory Management Techniques and Best Practices

RETAIL MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

Check data and reports regularly – Consistently checking data will give you a good idea of how your inventory is performing overall. Plan before buying your inventory- Use your data to determine what you should order. Maximize inventory turnover- Increase turn rate to move product gradually through the purchasing cycle.

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Top 3 Challenges in Demand Forecasting, and How Analytics Solves Them (2022)

Retalon

The forecast of future sales demand informs almost all of the decisions a retailer makes throughout the product journey: Planning. What’s more, you’re able to buy enough inventory to meet demand without being left with overstock. Planning inventory based on sales history depends on a logical approximation. Let’s find out.