Small Biz Trends

JULY 9, 2025

Supply chain management software is crucial for businesses aiming to improve their operational efficiency. Key Takeaways Supply Chain Management Software streamlines complex processes by integrating features like demand planning and forecasting for improved efficiency.

Supply Chain Management

I Vend

APRIL 2, 2025

If youre an ambitious mid-sized retailer, youre probably aware of retail management software, and understand that it can be a powerful tool to help you automate and streamline your operations. You know that its more than simply a point of sale, and that it offers a comprehensive platform for managing the entire retail operation.

Management

Small Biz Trends

JUNE 18, 2025

An exceptional experience encourages customers to return and recommend your store to others, leading to increased sales and brand loyalty. Friendly and attentive service creates a positive interaction, encouraging customers to return. Utilizing effective supply chain management ensures you maintain a steady flow of products.

Customer Experience

CJ Retail Solutions

JULY 25, 2025

Many retailers are now implementing take-back programs that encourage you to return used products for recycling or repurposing. Brands that offer refillable containers or encourage you to return packaging for reuse demonstrate their commitment to sustainability while also fostering customer loyalty.

Consumer

Small Biz Trends

JULY 25, 2025

Tracking Performance : Monitor metrics from influencer campaigns such as engagement rates and conversion metrics to measure your return on investment. Supply Chain Management : Sourcing materials and managing production require careful planning.

Fashion

Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Japanese retailer Uniqlo is investing heavily in radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology to accelerate supply chain efficiencies, with an ambition to embed RFID into its global product range, facilitating improved inventory management and the customer self-checkout experience.

Payment Services

Retail TouchPoints

MAY 30, 2022

A huge part of retaining customers is having a return policy that is clear and concise, giving customers the security they expect and want. In trying to accommodate all customer demands while simultaneously fighting for market share in a rapidly expanding and competitive fashion industry, retailers are relaxing their return policies.

Returns

Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 28, 2023

For many years, permissive returns policies have been the norm in ecommerce. For the post-holiday season just past, it’s estimated that the total value of returned goods will be around $171 billion. retailers were revisiting their returns policies as of late 2022. With numbers like these, it’s no wonder that most U.S.

Returns

Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 7, 2022

It’s been another year of record-breaking ecommerce sales combined with unprecedented snarls across shipping and inventory ecosystems, so it should come as no surprise that return rates for 2021 are expected to have gone through the roof. Getting at the Root of Apparel and Footwear Returns.

Returns

Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 2, 2023

Smart retailers are realizing that their increasingly complex omnichannel offerings have made strong supply chain management more important than ever. Another key challenge for Hot Topic’s inventory management system is ensuring its BOPIS options run smoothly even as it fulfills orders across multiple channels.

Inventory Management

Retail TouchPoints

JULY 22, 2024

Flawless execution of fulfillment operations is the baseline for competing in the marketplace, and traditional warehouse management systems (WMS) can’t keep up. That’s where a modern fulfillment management system (FMS) steps in to meet both internal and external needs.

Fulfillment

Retail TouchPoints

MAY 4, 2022

Purple has appointed supply chain veteran Eric Haynor as its COO, effective June 6, 2022. In his current position, Haynor was directly responsible for North American supply chain operations in addition to end-to-end supply chain for the industrial business group. “As

Supply Chain Management

Retail TouchPoints

MAY 2, 2022

Mitigating Returns. Product returns in particular represent a huge portion of the negative impact that ecommerce has on the environment. When a consumer returns an item, that’s two legs of shipping — and the concomitant environmental impact — that essentially occurred for naught. This is particularly true for clothes.

Drop-Shipping

Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Every business has a number of core processes, units and departments that each function as vital cogs in the machinery, including manufacturing, order management, purchasing inventory, accounting, human resources, financial management and so much more. What Should you Look for in your Retail ERP System? That is not all.

Supply Chain Management

Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Thomas Goldsby But after the wild pendulum swings caused by COVID — first not enough product, then a glut of it — the state of global supply chains deserves more sustained attention. RTP: What impact do returns have on supply chain costs? We’re now battle-tested.”

Returns

Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 25, 2024

Operational agility is all about efficiently managing your company’s orders, inventories and other operational aspects. Financial control refers to the procedures and policies by which a company monitors and manages its cash flow and revenue. Operational agility. Automation is the key piece here. Financial control. Connectivity.

Shipping

Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 18, 2020

Organizations would do well to identify secondary suppliers that can help mitigate risks in their supply chain. Many supply chain leaders cite predictive analytics as the Holy Grail of enterprise risk management, but more often than not, their organizations lack any meaningful ability to generate and act upon these analytics.

Supply Chain Management

M19 Retail

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Why Your Supply Chain Management System Depends on the Right Retail Inventory Management Software In today’s complex retail environment, managing a supply chain management system is no small feat.

Supply Chain Management

Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 28, 2022

There is no doubt that customers value convenience over sustainability, which is why same-day shipping remains a popular delivery option along with the increasing rate of returns in ecommerce. Step 3: Digitization and Automation to Increase Transparency in the Supply Chain. Step 5: Returns Analysis and Recommerce.

Planning

Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Inventory management Predictive analytics: This helps optimise your stock levels, preventing overstocking and stockouts. We all know that omnichannel is a challenge to manage against the product and customer objectives of your brand or business. This means you can get the most out of each product you are selling.

Loss Prevention

Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Now the store is viewed as a flexible asset, capable of fulfilling a variety of needs: Distribution center supplying inventory to other locations Ecommerce fulfillment Amazon return hub Curbside pickup Private bubble/pod shopping location Retooled for more buying, less shopping Emphasis on health and safety, contactless shopping.

Retail Trends

Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 21, 2022

5G is expected to be a powerful catalyst to disrupt retail operations, from optimizing warehouses and supply chain management to transforming the in-store customer experience through personalization and product engagement. 5G can Drive Consumer Engagement.

Payment Services

Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Here’s a look at how Amazon is moving even further away from the domain of retailer with the debut of new services in supply chain management, shipping, banking, market research, product development, inventory management and more.

Payment Services

Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 30, 2023

In the past, many of these consumers have returned to national brands once the economy has recovered. Sourcing responsibly while maintaining an optimal balance between price and quality may seem daunting, but as with most challenges related to supply chain management, digitalization makes it possible.

Consumer

Wiser

JUNE 5, 2023

As a small business owner, managing supply chain issues is nothing new. Because smaller retailers cannot always order in bulk or far in advance like many larger retailers do, any supply chain disruptions are often felt faster and stronger by small businesses.

Management

Retail TouchPoints

JULY 27, 2020

And the backlash — the desire for a return to substantive human interactions — had already begun too. Being relevant now means offering purchase protection with delivery coverage, extending return windows and facilitating curbside pickup. The yearning for in-person contact is now stronger than ever.

Retail Trends

Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

“When you’re talking about same-day or next-day delivery and the last mile, it’s not only the labor and equipment needed to move it; it’s also inventory positioning,” said Matt Katz, Managing Partner at SSA & Co. in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. Unemployment is at 3.5%

Fulfillment

Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 4, 2020

The result would have been a shorter shortage period that would throttle down panic buying behavior and ensure a swifter return to baseline demand in this category. The Flour Shortage: How Packaging Impacts Supply Chains. Retail will not return to the “normal” that we were all used to.

Fulfillment

Independent Retailer

AUGUST 1, 2022

Some analysts have predicted that it could take until mid-2024 for supply chains to return to relative normal, but that period of ‘normal’ could be short-lived since McKinsey reports that significant disruptions to manufacturing production now occur every 3.7 Common Inventory Management Headaches. years, on average. .

Inventory Management

Retail Focus

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

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.

Supply Chain Management

Inside Retail

MARCH 26, 2024

In the realm of commerce, a gap exists in the market – along with a major opportunity – particularly FOR large-scale item returns, within the domain of consumer-to-business (C2B) reverse logistics. Returns aren’t great for consumers or vendors. Also, certain product categories are more complex to process when returned.

Returns

Inside Retail

AUGUST 25, 2021

As we closed out 2020, all data sources pointed towards households reverting to pre-Covid behaviours and a return to a more consistent and predictable purchasing rhythm. Sporadic outbreaks aside, the supermarket industry was returning to something close to normality. Scope a project with us.

Consumer

Retail Focus

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Optimizing Supply Chain Management Digital technologies provide: Real-time visibility in supply chain management. Management of inventory sales. It makes the supply chain management process more efficient and reduces costs. Allowing retailers to track product movement.

Supply Chain Management

Inside Retail

DECEMBER 21, 2022

With inventory availability being one of the top priorities for shoppers this holiday season, retailers must leverage their inventory management and customer experience tools to optimise their merchandise strategies. Not only will this help ensure margins are managed, but it will ensure customer expectations are met.

Supply Chain Management

Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 19, 2021

Unsurprisingly, customers facing unexpected charges upon delivery are often refusing to accept deliveries of products, and this is causing 30% of orders to be returned , according to Statista data. Christophe Pecoraro is Managing Director, PFS Europe . As Managing Director, he oversees all PFS operations across Europe.

Fulfillment

Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Now, the company aims to create its own e-commerce supply-chain system, incorporating warehousing, transportation, delivery, returns management and, of course, analytics on user behaviour and shopping habits. More sales means more returns . Higher customer expectations . Warehouse dilemma: humans or robots .

Social Commerce

Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Russel Creedy, group CEO, joined the business in 2001 as supply chain manager and served as GM for Pizza Hut in New Zealand. Restaurant Brands is a corporate franchisee and specialises in managing multi-site branded food retail chains. He took on the CEO role in 2007. Creedy will retire on 31 March next year. “I

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