Retalon

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Why should retailers care about their Order Fulfillment Process? Order fulfillment may seem like a fairly straightforward process and according to the generic “high-level” definition, it is. In fact, the best order fulfillment processes become sources of revenue, profit, and even customer loyalty.

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Retail Minded

AUGUST 27, 2022

final nail in the coffin for retailers – while other reports describe merchants being overstocked. inventory’ by making additional markdowns across the board. service they provide. Inventory Planner saves eCommerce merchants time and money when purchasing inventory to better meet. customer demand.

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Retalon

AUGUST 22, 2023

Retail merchandise planning is the strategic process retailers use to determine what products to stock, in what quantities, and where to allocate inventory across stores and e-commerce channels. For instance, a merchant may have a hunch that fluorescent tracksuits will trend this season.

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Retail Adventures

AUGUST 8, 2023

Stop in each important area of the sales floor and watch shoppers, trying to see the merchandising and customer service through their eyes. Don’t forget to visit service areas, classrooms, and rest rooms, too. o How does the retailer differentiate between full price and markdown merchandise? Is coverage adequate?

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Independent Retailer

AUGUST 19, 2022

Total search volume for “Halloween” from mid-August to early November even rivaled key Christmas keywords in December, suggesting an exciting opportunity for merchants this year. Exceptional service: If a customer has a poor experience with a delivery person, the results range in lasting, negative effects.

Shipping 85

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Retalon

AUGUST 2, 2019

Businesses collect more data than ever before and from every aspect of the supply and demand chain—logistics; vendor compliancy/lead times; POS data; inventory levels; traffic cameras; prices; markdowns; consumer behavior; demand forecasts; and more. Merchants and inventory managers attended more co-planning meetings.

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Retail Adventures

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

Stop in each important area of the sales floor and watch shoppers, trying to see the merchandising and customer service through their eyes. Don’t forget to visit service areas, classrooms, and rest rooms, too. o How does the retailer differentiate between full price and markdown merchandise?

Shopping 52

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The Retail Creative and Consulting Agency

AUGUST 30, 2022

We make that feeling happen more often for the consumer in a way that doesn’t take merchants or marketers, hundreds of hours to manually put together a beautifully curated story and email. So what I, what I hate to see happen is these poor merchants spending 40 hours to curate this beautiful landing page. Bacharach: Yeah, exactly.

Marketing 40

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Indigo 9 Digital

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Overal, "the overriding goal between now [2020] and 2022 is to speed up full implementation of our integrated store concept, driven by the notion of being able to offer our customers uninterrupted service no matter where they find themselves, on any device and at any time of the day," said Pablo Isla Zara’s former CEO.

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Retalon

AUGUST 2, 2019

Retail businesses collect more data than ever before, and from every aspect of the supply chain, including: Logistics data (vendor compliance, lead times, etc.). Prices (markdowns, promotions, competitor prices, etc.). Predictive analytics systems go beyond traditional forecasting by letting you unify processes within your business.

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Retalon

JUNE 22, 2020

Demand forecasting is the process of removing the effect of factors that influence sales data to uncover true past demand for your products at all locations and channels. It’s a must have for any merchant that wants to experience success with their retail business in the digital age. Demand Forecast Definition. Conclusion.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

By creating narrower product assortments and limiting inventory levels — especially for product shipments headed to brick-and-mortar stores —merchants would gain the ability to react more quickly to changing consumer trends, and even potentially reduce their need for markdowns. It’s a different approach and a different thought process.

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Retalon

AUGUST 5, 2020

Merchants and inventory analysts must be aware of how well they are getting their products to the stores. Retailers must maintain a healthy In-Stock Percentage for every product at every store, in order to avoid out-of-stocks, lost sales, failed promotions, and costly markdowns. This avoids markdowns that cut into profit margins.

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Retail Prophet

JULY 18, 2022

Soon, merchants everywhere began to experience what many thought could only happen in third-world economies and banana republics – panic buying, empty shelves and bottomless backlogs to fill them. But in the process also opened global consumer markets to risks that would make the cotton collapse of 1861 look like a picnic.

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Retail Geek

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Scot: [6:16] Should be over should be like part of the onboarding. So it’s an area where companies are looking to save money very quickly because you’re not locked into certainty or anything like that like you would, be with some software as a service platforms.

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