Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 26, 2023

And in 2014, Inditex SA, which owns fast-fashion giant Zara, implemented RFID to effectively track all its products at every step in the process. A number of major retailers have had some form of adoption because of its ability to materially improve inventory management, but it hasn’t offered the same benefit to the customer experience.

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Retalon

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Why should retailers care about their Order Fulfillment Process? Order fulfillment may seem like a fairly straightforward process and according to the generic “high-level” definition, it is. In fact, the best order fulfillment processes become sources of revenue, profit, and even customer loyalty.

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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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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

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.). Inventory levels (store, warehouse, distribution centers). Prices (markdowns, promotions, competitor prices, etc.). POS data (sales, returns, etc.). The result?

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Retalon

AUGUST 5, 2020

Throughout the history of retail, success and failure has come down to how well a company manages — and profits from — its inventory investment. Inventory management teams calculate the In-Stock Percentage by dividing the number of stores that have a SKU in stock by the number of stores that should stock that SKU.

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