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How Online Businesses can Master Inventory Management to Impact Operations

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There’s an inventory sweet spot you’re always looking to achieve — not overstocking, not understocking, and still managing to keep up with changing buyer demands. Learning to master your inventory management processes can net significant bottom-line results in your ecommerce business.

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Madewell and J.Crew Streamline Inventory Planning as Retail Faces Product Glut

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J.Crew and its sister company Madewell have both implemented a new integrated inventory planning solution that allows the retailers to increase efficiency when creating new products and tap into comprehensive data insights to inform assortment and merchandising decisions.

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Shopify to Acquire Deliverr in $2.1B Deal to Fortify Fulfillment Offerings

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With the Deliverr acquisition and integration of its 6 River Systems ’ warehouse automation technology, the ecommerce platform plans to fortify its Shopify Fulfillment Network (SFN). In February, Walmart launched a partnership with last mile solution provider Cognetry Labs to provide its Walmart GoLocal last mile services to Cognetry clients.

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Ubers Eats Enhances Customer Experience with Extended Ordering Hours, Live Tracking

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Uber is expanding Uber Eats’ services with new features such as the ability to place orders when grocery stores aren’t open for later delivery, live tracking of orders from store to door and easier product replacements. The improvements will start in select cities before rolling out across the country throughout the summer. and Costco.

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Is It Too Late for JCPenney to ‘Make it Count’? Inside the Retailer’s $1B Turnaround Plan

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A new POS system will create a centralized view of inventory for customers and associates, and improved WiFi — coupled with associate mobile POS devices — will help enrich customer service in stores. JCPenney’s “Make it Count” customer strategy and brand proposition is the centerpiece of the turnaround plan.

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A Retailer’s Guide to Preparing Your Warehouse for Ecommerce Success

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Those businesses clinging to rudimentary paper-based processes and a belief system that “we’ve always been able to make money doing things this way, why do we need to change?” Inertia and not knowing where to start when it comes to implementing ecommerce into their warehouse operations are holding back many merchants.

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How Retailers like Rothy’s and Shinola are ‘De-Risking’ Product Design with Consumer Data

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Technological innovations have optimized and enhanced almost all areas of the retail organization, from marketing to fulfillment, but the process of bringing products to market has been markedly slower to advance. But these legacy processes don’t work as well as they once did, and COVID made that fact hard to ignore. “A

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