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How Improving Markdowns Will Impact Your Most Important Supply Chain KPIs

Retail TouchPoints

Managing retail supply chains is complicated, heads-down work. At the same time, it’s also important to ensure the retailer doesn’t have excess inventory clogging up stores and distribution centers past the planned deletion date, tying up both capital and space in inventory that’s effectively “dead.”.

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‘Like a ghost town’: Retailers react to the Omicron wave

Inside Retail

We then struggle to get deliveries and stock, as their workers are also in isolation. Managing staff in isolation means a drop in sales as well, given 20 per cent more people are locked in the house undergoing isolation. Naturally, we then suffer lower sales, as our customers [are] also in isolation. It goes on and on.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 273 – Amazon FBA Roll-ups with Alex Kopco of Forum Brands

Retail Geek

Scot: [11:03] A lot of people that have worked at Amazon that start companies they bring a lot of the management principles over is that something you plan on doing or you’re just like starting with the clean white board. Catalog management and digital shelf for you doing like magic pricing logic are you doing like ad.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 252 – Amazon FBA Roll-ups with Chris Bell CEO of Perch

Retail Geek

People used to record ideas on dead trees and sometimes you need a copy of the dead tree so you could actually make a machine that duplicated the dead tree. Over and over again and so what we manage that without cannibalizing too many of our organic sales and so a lot of those. [28:37]

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Small retail businesses are under threat. Here’s how they can prosper

Inside Retail

The earliest version was to manage newspaper home delivery, connecting newsagents with publishers and enabling the list and instructions that paper boys would use to make deliveries. For example, around 25 per cent of retail businesses are out of stock of their top-selling items for at least 30 to 40 per cent of the time.