Retail Focus

AUGUST 4, 2021

Claire Webb from Advanced Supply Chain Group looks at why playing a waiting game won’t help retailers beat soaring shipping costs. Many retailers are looking to protect margins against rapidly rising shipping costs. The factors have triggered a long-running period of disruption and caused shipping costs to escalate.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 15, 2023

Additionally, GoBolt’s real-time inventory management offering can lower the chances that retailers will run out of stock, since the portal enables them to monitor current stock levels and the status of inbound shipments.

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Merchant Services Fulfillment Inventory Management Shipping 277

Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 25, 2022

Sales-to-inventory forecasting not only determines sales numbers but also informs other business decisions, ranging from hiring and resource management to marketing decisions and inventory and shipping procedures. Navigating the Dynamic and Evolving Shipping Industry.

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RETAIL MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

MARCH 11, 2022

Do you know how to manage your inventory as effectively as possible? What are the inventory management best practices? If you can’t answer these questions, it’s time to reconsider how you manage your inventory. Do you have enough stock on hand?

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Inventory Management Management Inventory Turnover Drop-Shipping 111

Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

With new services like Supply Chain by Amazon and Amazon Shipping joining existing offerings such as FBA and Amazon Lending, Amazon is firmly positioning itself more and more as a tech-powered service company and less and less as a retailer.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 28, 2023

Having adequate inventory to ship is job one for any ecommerce business. Knowing how much of each item is in stock at any moment, and forecasting how much inventory is needed, are critical components to holiday fulfillment success. Everything from shipping materials to labels to printer ink are very important.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Party City has been faced with both challenges that are affecting retail in general — such as inflation and higher shipping costs — and those that are unique to its business, such as a helium shortage. The retailer had about $121.5 billion in debt.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 6, 2022

The goal is to provide a turnkey end-to-end solution for independent brands through localized fulfillment and enhanced last-mile options, regardless of whether or not they use the Shopify platform.

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Retail Focus

MARCH 25, 2025

Retailers face mounting expenses throughout supply chains, from manufacturing to shipping fees. In order to counteract the rising costs of their products, a lot of online stores use transport strategies like free shipping levels or membership programs that encourage larger, less frequent orders.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 5, 2025

Smaller carriers, in particular, will face working capital pressures, making it essential for retailers to build flexible, multi-carrier shipping strategies to mitigate risk and maintain delivery consistency. However, because it also adds complexity to inventory management, it makes transparency and proactive communication critical.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

D Cloud inventory management platform throughout 162 stores, with the objective of increasing accuracy throughout the supply chain. It allows us to increase our online sellable stock, as we do not necessarily need to ship from our distribution centers anymore. Scotch & Soda will deploy Nedap’s !D

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Management Fulfillment Inventory Management Shipping 290

Independent Retailer

DECEMBER 23, 2022

This is why inventory management is key, especially as retailers look to deal with unsold merchandise after the holidays. “Seemingly overnight, shortages are flipping to inventory surpluses in certain categories. Donate Excess Inventory. Adopt a Probabilistic Model of Inventory Management.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 17, 2025

One of the most promising is a challenge that has bedeviled merchandisers, marketers and inventory managers for decades, if not centuries demand forecasting. Retailers are well aware that having too much inventory in the wrong store, or not enough in the right one, affects not just sell-through but labor costs and store operations.

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Markdowns Inventory Management Marketing Consumer 216

Inside Retail

JUNE 27, 2024

This is a comprehensive approach that extends beyond online sales to encompass various critical aspects of retail operations, with inventory management and pricing at its core. But the two channels had separate inventory tracking systems, leading to lost sales when stores couldn’t check what stock was where.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

In internal fulfillment, the business handles the complete process of storing, packing and shipping. The company must have a warehouse to keep its inventory, and a logistics team to manage the goods for storing, ordering and shipping directly to stores/distributors or customers. Also, packaging can be fully customizable.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 27, 2021

After all, they will be the ones to bring to life in-store pickup, ship-from-store fulfillment, the endless aisle and other omnichannel experiences. It’s also important to examine reject rates for ship-from-store and buy online, pick up in-store purchases. You’re Losing Money on Every Order Due to High Shipping Costs.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

The retailer will use the platform to swiftly implement and improve a number of customer-facing innovations, including ship-to-store, same-day-delivery, social commerce and its Virtual Stylist program.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 12, 2021

Good warehousekeeping leads to better customer service through improved inventory management, faster receiving, put-away, picking and shipping times, savings in labor costs and reducing expensive errors. This allows your employees to pick directly into the box with pre-calculated dimensions and shipping weight.

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Merchant Services Fulfillment Shipping Inventory Management 279

Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Shipping delays and stockouts lead to frustration and disappointment, especially when logistical problems impact time-sensitive purchases, such as special occasion gifts, event tickets or prescription medications. In manufacturing, product substitution can be a valuable tool for optimizing inventory management.

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Customer Experience Inventory Management Fulfillment Inventory Turnover 264

Retail TouchPoints

JULY 15, 2022

In the longer term, it gave us this ability to grow and add things like ship-from-store, in-store pickup and same-day delivery through Shipt , which is another key component of what we wanted to do for last-minute gift givers.”. Creating Joy Amid Uncertainty.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 13, 2023

For retailers selling products online across multiple markets on- and off-shore, selecting shipping partners can be a significant pain point in time, cost and convenience. We save our customers time, trouble and money on all their shipping needs,” explains Nicholas Woodward, country manager for Pack & Send Australia. “We

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

RFID-ticketed products are not yet required for drop-ship suppliers. FineLine Technologies is working with vendors that RFID source-tag at their factories, Davidson reported, and that now use the technology for automated outbound shipment verification and automatic advance shipping notification generation.

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Retail Bound

APRIL 13, 2024

One of the topics that consistently comes up in the retail world is the logistics of shipping. From the manufacturers to the distributors, to your retail store – there are many factors and unexpected costs to consider during the shipping process that can be often overlooked. Choose a model that can scale with your growth trajectory.

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RETAIL MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

MARCH 20, 2025

Understanding how your shops perform in terms of inventory and ROI is essential to the success of any multi-store operation. What if we told you that you could successfully manage all of your stores’ inventory and ROI with one intuitive inventory management system?

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Retail Focus

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

To meet this demand, retailers need a fully integrated point-of-sale system capable of handling refunds, restocking, and real-time inventory checks. By consolidating these systemsoften via cloud-based platformscompanies can offer accurate click-and-collect services, same-day shipping, and personalised product recommendations.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 29, 2024

Most retailers are now rolling out RFID inventory management use cases like receiving, adjustments and cycle counting via handheld reader. Each time a unit of inventory isn’t actually where the Order Management System (OMS) or store system expects it to be, retailers risk diminishing their customer experience.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 6, 2023

Opportunity #1: Cost-efficient inventory management. When the amount of recommerce inventory grows, sourcing products can become a complex endeavor. Levi’s probably doesn’t have that issue, as it has created a recommerce model that streamlines inventory management.

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Merchant Services Inventory Management Shipping Consumer 278

Inside Retail

JANUARY 11, 2022

Retailers are now investing significant resources into logistics, deploying the latest inventory management systems, automating warehouses and hiring hundreds of hardworking staff in an effort to pick, pack and ship online orders as quickly as possible. Using this stock to fulfil online orders is known as ship-from-store. .

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Shipping Fulfillment Inventory Management Location 200

Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 3, 2023

It was no longer enough to route orders to a handful of DCs and drop ship vendors. The digital channel typically had one or more dedicated facilities, which ironically were often planned and managed like an individual additional brick-and-mortar location. Checking inventory in a local store but not placing an order?

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Inside Retail

MARCH 17, 2022

Unified commerce is the new holy grail for retailers, promising previously unheard-of levels of customer insights and control over all elements of sales and inventory management. Smarter inventory management enabled by unified commerce allows stores to resell the item or return it to the warehouse. Endless aisle.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 15, 2023

Amazon has been overhauling its logistics network to “regionalize” where inventory is located across the U.S. in an effort to reduce delivery costs while maintaining the fast shipping speeds the company is known for, multiple sources report and Amazon has confirmed.

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Retail Focus

MARCH 22, 2025

The benefits can also extend to other aspects of retail, like inventory management, where smart contracts can be used to automate inventory updates and update processes using real-time data. The possible integration with IoT also makes this more plausible.

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Payment Services Supply Chain Management Inventory Management Shipping 130

Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 11, 2021

The dramatic increase in ecommerce volume triggered by the pandemic increased many retailers’ topline revenues, but many are finding it difficult to contain the costs of new types of order fulfillment such as BOPIS, ship-from-store and curbside pickup, according to a report from Incisiv , commissioned by Manhattan Associates Inc.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Accurate demand forecasting is the bedrock of efficient inventory management — a vital logistics function that should be operating at peak performance levels during the holiday shopping season when consumers expect the inventory they want to be available. 1: Demand forecasting. 3: Order accuracy.

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Retail Focus

MARCH 7, 2025

These technologies are enabling retailers to provide personalized shopping experiences, optimize pricing strategies, and streamline inventory management. Increased Efficiency : AI helps retailers optimize stock levels, improving inventory management and reducing costs. Positive brand image and customer loyalty.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 9, 2024

In 2020 he joined Alibaba, where he is now tasked with developing the company’s strategy and building platform-level solutions around international shipping, logistics, cross-border trade and global expansion. This will cause the channel to continue to narrow, further reducing ship traffic.

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Merchant Services Shipping Fulfillment Management 286

Retail TouchPoints

JULY 22, 2024

If you’re experiencing ongoing increases in the number of shipped orders, that’s a positive sign. With the high-volume of individual orders, these centers require more labor for intricate tasks such as picking, packing and shipping unique items.

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