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Understanding the Modern Category Manager: Overcoming Daily Challenges with Smarter Solutions

Wiser

They are responsible for building a profitable, well-curated product assortment while ensuring pricing, promotions, and merchandising strategies align with business objectives. Misreading consumer demand could mean investing in the wrong products, missing a key trend, or failing to pull underperforming SKUs before they drain profitability.

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Essential Knowledge for Streamlining Your Retail Audit Process

Wiser

Essential Knowledge to Optimize Your Retail Audit Process A well-executed retail audit provides critical visibility into everything from shelf conditions and associate performance to customer sentiment and promotional effectiveness. Photo documentationespecially for displays and endcapsensures promotional efforts are executed correctly.

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How China’s Missfresh Makes Rapid Grocery Delivery Pay

Retail TouchPoints

As grocers around the world work furiously to meet consumers’ demand for delivery without breaking the bank, Chinese online grocer Missfresh looks to have a winning model. Where Chinese consumers do need some convincing, however, is in buying fresh produce online. One way to ensure the freshness Chinese consumers demand is speed.

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Product Substitution: How Savvy Retailers and Manufacturers can Build Supply Chain Resiliency, Reduce Costs and Improve Customer Experiences

Retail TouchPoints

Market conditions are dynamic, and consumer preferences change — retailers and manufacturers need to adapt to these factors quickly. Product substitution capabilities ensure they can respond to demand shifts, consumer trends and emerging technologies. Using substitution tactics, retailers can recalibrate inventory levels.

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Using Prebuilt Data Models? You Should Be

Retail TouchPoints

Analysis-ready models eliminate the need for manual data engineering, science and analysis, all of which can be time-consuming and prone to error. Different departments can collaborate more easily and work toward a common understanding of the data, promoting better decision-making.

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What is Inventory Turnover in Retail? (Formulas, Benchmarks, Examples)

Retalon

One of the key inventory metrics retailers track is inventory turnover. Inventory turnover measures how many times a company sells and replaces its inventory during a period. It indicates how efficiently inventory is managed and whether excess inventory is tying up too much capital.

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Survival guide: The keys to resilience and success in tough times

Inside Retail

There are several economic factors playing havoc with consumers and business operations that are likely to persist into 2024. Consumer sentiment remains low as households stagger under higher costs of living and interest rates. Set benchmarks for inventory management, including the rate of inventory turnover and tracking and fill rate.