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. Richard Maicki.

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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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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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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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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. According to a 2019 McKinsey report , retailers that use advanced analytics are outperforming their competition by over 68% — with the number growing exponentially.

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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. billion in 2019.

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