Retail Minded

AUGUST 27, 2022

The lucky ones managed to balance stock levels reactively, replenishing a steady. Among them, a global supply chain crisis – rife with driver shortages and lengthy shipping. It’s even affecting the US retail giants, with Target recently admitting its plans to ‘right-size its. planning and demand forecasting software.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 3, 2023

It was no longer enough to route orders to a handful of DCs and drop ship vendors. When it came to inventory planning and optimization, stores were planned, allocated and/or replenished, and transacted with their customers entirely separately from the digital channel. Checking inventory in a local store but not placing an order?

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Retalon

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The forecast of future sales demand informs almost all of the decisions a retailer makes throughout the product journey: Planning. Price elasticity of demand, meaning the effect that a set price will have on demand, is an important consideration when setting prices, running promotions, or markdowns. Let’s find out. Customer experience.

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Retalon

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

POS / customer engagement software Ecommerce platforms Data analytics and business intelligence software Order management software. Retail IT services: Tech support Field support Device management Software management Disaster recovery Software integration Custom development. Why invest in fulfillment technology?

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Retalon

APRIL 21, 2021

Maintaining margins within business constraints while efficiently providing order fulfillment to customers is a tall order, especially considering each customer purchase requires a real-time fulfillment decision within a shifting context of inventory, demand, returns, delivery times, and shipping costs. That’s the billion dollar question.

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Independent Retailer

AUGUST 19, 2022

More than two years after the global pandemic sparked supply chain chaos, shoppers are anticipating shipping delays and inventory challenges to hinder their annual retail indulgence. Consumers will only stop buying gifts when the shipping deadline for Christmas delivery has passed. Start Holiday Preparations Early.

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Retalon

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Whether losing sales to out-of-stocks, or facing overstocking costs and markdowns, inefficient stock replenishment has a huge impact on a retailer’s GMROI. Meeting sales demand has always been challenging, effective replenishment should mitigate issues that arise from poor planning and allocation. What is replenishment?

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Indigo 9 Digital

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

That means if there is slow moving merchandise the retailer doesn’t have to worry about taking markdowns to sell the inventory. Marks & Spencer plans to lean more into its food offerings in the future. It also allows a retailer to have a much larger product range without having to make a large investment to buy and hold more stock.

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Indigo 9 Digital

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Shein is vertically integrated allowing it to go from design to shipping in as little as three days. Inditex, Zara’s parent company planned to close up to 1,200 stores by the end of 2022 and open 450 new stores. If you can’t move all of the inventory then markdowns are required which eats into sales per sq.

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Retalon

DECEMBER 8, 2021

How, when, and where the customer prefers to experience their product fulfillment affects the sourcing and shipping decisions. This includes everything from purchasing inventory to returns management. Purchase order management is often the first stumbling block to a smooth fulfillment process. Customer preference (fulfillment).

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

An increase in volatility in any one of these variables would be troublesome for a retailer, but when all six are in play it makes for a perfect planning storm. The planners in turn use data and adopt planning methodologies of varying complexity to move stock at optimum price and margin. .

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Retalon

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Instead of only shipping to customers’ homes, retailers let online customers shop from their local and online store’s inventory and pick up their orders from their closest brick-and-mortar location the same day. This product is shipped to the store where the customer picks it up. Lower shipping costs. Saves time and money.

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Retalon

APRIL 27, 2021

Although e-commerce gets all of the attention, the past two decades of technological change have transformed every aspect of the retail business — from planning, inventory, pricing, and promotions — all the way down to customer service and the in-store experience. to optimize inventory for gross margins.

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Retail Next

MARCH 3, 2020

Last year (2019) was undoubtedly the most eventful yet, with a number of major global players announcing plans to reduce the amount of plastic they use and make their packaging more recyclable, including Procter & Gamble, PepsiCo, Nestlé , Unilever , Aldi and Walmart , just to name a few. 1% for the Planet is the perfect example of this.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 31, 2023

of retail sales, has multiple causes, including inaccurate demand planning, lack of inventory visibility and inadequate staff training. This has mostly been worked through and demonstrates that retailers are becoming more effective in managing their inventory levels and avoiding excessive stockpiling in 2023.”

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Retalon

AUGUST 20, 2019

You can also beef up fulfillment options so that customers can pick-up in local stores or ship directly from other stores, mirroring the convenience of online ordering. – Inventory management. – Merchandise, Assortment, and Store planning. – Price management & optimization. – and more.

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Retalon

AUGUST 20, 2019

You can also beef up fulfillment options so that customers can pick-up in local stores or ship directly from other stores, mirroring the convenience of online ordering. – Inventory management. – Merchandise, Assortment, and Store planning. – Price management & optimization. – and more.

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Retalon

JULY 4, 2018

A Forrester research team surveyed retailers on what they plan to implement to support fulfillment efforts. Here’s what they said: Buy via mobile or web site in-store, pick up in-store (64%); Buy online, pick up in-store (62%); Buy via mobile or web site in-store, ship to home (60%); Buy online, return to store (50%); and.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Retailers, particularly those in the apparel, footwear and soft goods verticals, have an opportunity to turn the lemons from COVID-19 into lemonade, according to Keith Jelinek and Richard Maicki, Managing Directors in the Performance Improvement Practice of Berkeley Research Group (BRG). What can the retailer learn from and improve?

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Retalon

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Many retailers are already set up to reach their customers, what they need is a smart fulfillment strategy that will have the inventory in place in advance to avoid unnecessary transfers, and markdowns. Recently Amazon has caught a lot of attention claiming that they could now ship products before the customer even orders it.

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Retalon

NOVEMBER 29, 2014

Many retailers are already set up to reach their customers, what they need is a smart fulfillment strategy that will have the inventory in place in advance to avoid unnecessary transfers, and markdowns. Recently Amazon has caught a lot of attention claiming that they could now ship products before the customer even orders it.

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Retalon

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

For example, global supply chains have long been: Overproducing goods in foreign factories with lax labor laws Monopolizing finite raw materials in Third World countries Relying on trade agreements to keep international shipping cheap Using just-in-time inventory practices, taking the resilience of supply chains for granted.

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Retail Prophet

JULY 18, 2022

If a single image has come to define the failure of global supply chains amid the Covid-19 crisis it’s that of the Ever Given – one of the world’s largest container ships – seized in a diagonal death grip inside the Suez Canal, heavy with more than twenty thousand units of cargo aboard. Slave laborers load cotton onto waiting ships.

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