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Want to Cut the Cost of Fast Fulfillment? It All Starts with Inventory Placement

Retail TouchPoints

The problems with getting products to people quickly and cheaply are well-known: consumers want fast fulfillment, which is costly to provide, but they don’t want to pay high (or really any) shipping fees. Even Amazon , the trendsetter in fast fulfillment, isn’t immune to higher labor costs. Unemployment is at 3.5%

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White Paper: Making the case for store- and aisle-friendly fulfilment

Inside Retail

Along with other retail trends, e-commerce has changed the amount of inventory retailers are keeping on store shelves, and the frequency with which those shelves are restocked,” says Steve Dimitrovski, senior sales consultant, retail and e-commerce, for Swisslog Australia and New Zealand. To download the full white paper, please click here.

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Old is the New New: How to Take Control of Retail Fundamentals Ahead of Peak Season

Retail TouchPoints

In an ideal world, no retailer would wind up with excess inventory because they would have the right insights to understand where and when their product most needs to be fulfilled. Take Back Control With Tech-Enabled, End-to-End Supply Chain Management. Better Inventory Forecasting = Happier Customers.

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Can Nearshoring Prevent the Next Supply Chain Crisis?

Retail TouchPoints

“While we’ve returned to some sense of normalcy, the VUCA [volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous] proposition has become a reality,” said Dr. Thomas Goldsby, Professor and Chair in Logistics in the Supply Chain Management Department of the University of Tennessee. We’re now battle-tested.” To provide a 99.5%

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Retail Trends in 2021 — Overcoming 2020’s Challenges

Retail TouchPoints

Traditionally, the brick-and-mortar store delivered a fairly static and conventional experience to the customer. In addition, mall operators are being asked to convert empty commercial space into mini-fulfillment centers for retail tenants. Look for this to get messy as rezoning debates get heated.

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How to Win in the Real-Time Holiday Retail Era

Retail TouchPoints

Optimized supply chain management to avoid stockouts and overstocking. A fast, flexible and responsive fulfilment process. Successfully optimizing the digital supply chain also can result in more efficient order fulfillment, cost management and forecasting across the business.

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AI in Retail: Optimizing Operations from Supply Chains to Employee Scheduling

Retail TouchPoints

Seeing this, a supply chain manager would want to know exactly how this would affect the trucks carrying their company’s products. When AI-powered solutions work in tandem with IoT sensors and visibility software, that value is multiplied. He gave the example of truck congestion along the U.S.-Mexico Mexico border.