Retalon

JANUARY 7, 2021

With seasonal product life-cycles becoming ever shorter, retailers need more strategic and granular ways to plan their seasonal assortments so they can maximize revenue while minimizing markdowns. Account for more variables in your seasonal merchandise planning. This is most obvious when a promotion doesn’t take inventory into account.

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Retalon

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Bad inventory is an expensive problem. Trillion annually as a result of bad inventory. Managing inventory becomes exponentially more complicated as a retailer grows; and often becomes an overwhelming challenge. Indicators you’re managing bad inventory. Drastic Markdowns. Siloed inventory management.

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Retalon

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Often resulting in inventory distortion that lead to lost sales and costly markdowns. For instance, many retailers run promotions while lacking integration between promotion and inventory management processes. These retailers are therefore unable to account the demand uplift resulting from the promotion.

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Retalon

OCTOBER 8, 2020

More expensive than real estate, merchandising, or even labor — inventory is the largest investment your company makes. But getting the biggest return on that investment, especially in today’s tough retail environment, requires a more nuanced, data-driven approach to inventory management than most retailers are used to.

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M19 Retail

APRIL 14, 2021

The multiplication of choices induced by this model translates into a drop in productivity of the physical store space and an increase in markdowns at the end of the season to sell unsold products. For all of these reasons, supply management is one of the current priorities of many retailers, the health crisis having served as an accelerator.

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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. Stock replenishment is the process of ordering and allocating inventory to replace missing products on store shelves. Inventory Management Software.

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Retalon

APRIL 26, 2021

Product clustering (or grouping) is an increasingly common technique that leading retailers use to manage their planning, inventory, pricing, promotions, and markdowns. Most commonly, retailers use geographical clusters to better account for demographics, distribution cost, climate, and other relevant factors to their business.

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Retalon

JANUARY 20, 2014

Retalon has helped businesses plan their operations, optimize prices and markdowns, and ensure efficiency in supply chain and inventory management processes. From inception, Retalon’s analytics have been built on a common analytic platform that takes into account the entire retail business process. About CIO Review.

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Retalon

JUNE 18, 2019

The math needed to account for these effects is hard enough. Keep in mind that promotions are not the same part of a product’s pricing lifecycle as Markdowns. In contrast, markdowns are permanent changes designed to clear inventories at the season’s end. All this down to the Store/SKU level. appeared first on Retalon.

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Retalon

JULY 28, 2021

Simply put, seasonal demand forecasting is a type of advanced demand forecasting that takes into account the many complex variables of predicting the performance of seasonal products (non-evergreen products). Retailers either lose sales and customer satisfaction due to inventory shortages or face drastic and expensive markdowns.

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Retalon

JULY 28, 2021

Simply put, seasonal demand forecasting is a type of advanced demand forecasting that takes into account the many complex variables of predicting the performance of seasonal products (non-evergreen products). Retailers either lose sales and customer satisfaction due to inventory shortages or face drastic and expensive markdowns.

Markdowns 41

Markdowns Inventory Management Accounting Management 41

Retalon

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

The result of unreliable projections are inventory imbalances: mistakes in planning, purchasing, and inventory management, resulting in inventory levels that don’t match actual demand. Each year, inventory imbalances cost retailers an estimated $1.1 trillion annually. Key Takeaways.

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Retalon

JANUARY 5, 2021

Most of today’s inventory management issues start at the level of forecasting. For example, legacy forecasting methods fail to account for the fact that new products in an assortment will inevitably impact sales of older products.

Location 41

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Retalon

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

The result of unreliable projections are inventory imbalances: mistakes in planning, purchasing, and inventory management, resulting in inventory levels that don’t match actual demand. Each year, inventory imbalances cost retailers an estimated $1.1 trillion annually. Key Takeaways.

Markdowns 32

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Retalon

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

The result of unreliable projections are inventory imbalances: mistakes in planning, purchasing, and inventory management, resulting in inventory levels that don’t match actual demand. Each year, inventory imbalances cost retailers an estimated $1.1 trillion annually. Key Takeaways.

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Markdowns Inventory Management Promotions Accounting 32

Retalon

JUNE 18, 2019

The math needed to account for these effects is hard enough. Keep in mind that promotions are not the same part of a product’s pricing lifecycle as Markdowns. In contrast, markdowns are permanent changes designed to clear inventories at the season’s end. All this down to the Store/SKU level.

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Retalon

MARCH 4, 2019

Inventory Management. Traditional inventory management is fragmented silo work that doesn’t take other processes into account. Things are done retroactively or not at all, and any changes made tend to be at a category level, not a SKU level, leading to lost sales and unnecessary markdowns.

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Retalon

APRIL 27, 2021

However, traditional spreadsheet analytics cannot account for store-by-store variations in the promotion’s effectiveness or secondary effects such as demand cannibalization. to optimize inventory for gross margins. In effect, this means a reduction of total inventories, maximized sales, and reduced markdowns.

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Retalon

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Without a solid demand forecast, you risk misallocating inventory and missing your revenue targets while watching turns collapse. Fixing the problem through stock rebalancing or price markdowns will be expensive. Retailers need to also account for new products impacting the sales of other SKUs through product demand cannibalization.

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Retail Prophet

JULY 18, 2022

Most companies today, according to Thorbeck, are accounting only for the front-end advantage that low cost might afford them. The result is slow turns, deep markdowns, write-offs, and heaps of dead stock in warehouses, much of which eventually becomes landfill. Risks, he says, that make businesses far less competitive.

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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

APRIL 21, 2021

This means that optimizing your fulfillment across all channels requires building a holistic process that takes your specific company policies and labour considerations into account, while still finding the cheapest and fastest method for fulfilling omnichannel orders (while keeping your customers happy) — for every order.

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Retalon

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Are the current pricing and markdown strategies still the optimal ones based on the new forecast? And how can retailers determine and account for the shifts in demand that follow? Retalon’s solutions are built one unified platform to account for all factors influencing your business. What products might also see an uplift?

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Retalon

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Are the current pricing and markdown strategies still the optimal ones based on the new forecast? And how can retailers determine and account for the shifts in demand that follow? Retalon’s solutions are built one unified platform to account for all factors influencing your business. What products might also see an uplift?

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Retalon

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Other directions that I should mention here is retailers are trying to establish relations between inventory levels and other drivers such as prices and promotions. So how can we account for all these factors? When you change the promotion, the system should know about your inventory level. Bob Johns: Interesting.

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Retalon

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Better inventory management and visibility. Retailers need better inventory management practices to conduct BOPIS operations but at the same time, BOPIS makes your inventory management better. Accurate store inventory counts aren’t enough. Your inventory system must be accurate in real-time.

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Retalon

DECEMBER 22, 2014

How much extra inventory should be ordered for planned promotions? What is the optimal pricing/markdown strategy to sell off inventory by end of season while a staying away from lost sales, and dead inventory? When is the right time to replenish inventory from the vendor and how much should you order?

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Retalon

DECEMBER 22, 2014

How much extra inventory should be ordered for planned promotions? What is the optimal pricing/markdown strategy to sell off inventory by end of season while a staying away from lost sales, and dead inventory? When is the right time to replenish inventory from the vendor and how much should you order?

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Retalon

AUGUST 2, 2019

Inventory levels (store, warehouse, distribution centers). Prices (markdowns, promotions, competitor prices, etc.). Because retailers can’t afford to lose money because inventory purchases didn’t account for future promotions, business leaders imposed processes to keep everyone on the same page. Demand forecasts.

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Retalon

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Unfortunately, retail businesses are very complex, and there are too many correlations between factors (demand, price, inventory, product assortment, competitors, consumer behavior, etc.) for any human to account for all of them manually. Promotions and inventory management).

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Retalon

AUGUST 16, 2019

So, how can you juggle concerns like forecasting, inventory management, distribution, fulfillment, and more against the growing demand for personalization, all while continuing to create the consistent experience customers expect ? This is the level of exclusivity their customers expect and prefer.

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Retalon

AUGUST 16, 2019

How can you juggle concerns like forecasting, inventory management, distribution, fulfillment, and more against the growing demand for personalization, all while continuing to create the consistent experience customers expect? This is the level of exclusivity their customers expect and prefer.

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Retalon

JULY 4, 2018

These tools are not able to account for new products, categories, and markets, or used & exchanged items, let alone suggest accurate and tangible actions going forward. Here’s more detail on how Retalon’s Inter-store inventory & assortment balancing process works.

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Retalon

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Changes in geodemographics, seasonality, pricing, new inventory, and cannibalization are only a few of the factors influencing product demand. An accurate forecast must account for how relevant factors will affect each SKU at the store level. Unfortunately, a host of factors can make past sales history a poor indicator of future sales.

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Retalon

MARCH 7, 2022

Retalon, a Toronto-based retail AI company, has been recognized for advancing retail technology in supply chain and merchandising in 2022. Retail Today considered nearly 7,000 nominees for these awards. “Retail CIO Radar 2022 helps CIOs and Retail business leaders to stay on top of the latest innovations.

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Retalon

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

To build an optimal assortment, retailers can employ AI-driven Assortment Planning tools , which enable planning at the most granular levels while accounting for all the factors that may impact product demand. You look at your computer and see how much inventory has been sold in each store location. Yes, its possible.

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