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Steps for Choosing and Implementing Retail Store Planning Software

Retail Focus

Without structured planning, retailers risk stockouts, overstocking, and suboptimal product placement, leading to lost sales. Retail store planning software addresses key challenges such as inefficient space utilization, inconsistent merchandising execution, and poor inventory visibility. Enhance inventory visibility?

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Why Data Will Drive the Future of Inventory Management

Retail TouchPoints

Retailers acted with agility, changing the way they planned and managed inventory in a remarkably short time. Tools can enable retailers to connect and correlate all inventory data with external events. They can then proactively deal with inbound disruptions, measure inventory turnover velocity and cut back on overstocking.

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Leveraging Voice-Directed Picking to Optimize Multichannel Fulfillment

Retail TouchPoints

Agile Decision-Making for High Velocity Operations Modern voice picking systems often integrate with warehouse management systems (WMS) or enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, providing real-time visibility into inventory levels, order statuses and productivity metrics.

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How poor planning is costing retailers sales – and profits

Inside Retail

Working with retailers across Australia and New Zealand, Quantiful CEO Jamie Cormack has identified poor planning outcomes as one of the significant causes forcing retailers to contract and even close stores today. The innovation is a demand planning tool that delivers accurate forecasts and illustrates what is driving demand.”

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Understanding the Modern Category Manager: Overcoming Daily Challenges with Smarter Solutions

Wiser

Their days are a flood of supplier negotiations, promotional planning, and cross-functional meetingsall demanding swift, strategic decision-making. For a retailer like Guitar Center , staying competitive depends on a strategic balance of pricing precision and thoughtful assortment planning.

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What is Inventory Turnover in Retail? (Formulas, Benchmarks, Examples)

Retalon

One of the key inventory metrics retailers track is inventory turnover. Inventory turnover measures how many times a company sells and replaces its inventory during a period. It indicates how efficiently inventory is managed and whether excess inventory is tying up too much capital.

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How China’s Missfresh Makes Rapid Grocery Delivery Pay

Retail TouchPoints

A network of in-house riders ensures orders can quickly be delivered once they’re packed, and the dispatch and packing is all coordinated by AI that monitors inventory levels, gives pickers their tasks and plans routes for riders. You can be more agile, you incur lower costs and you can have better coverage of the population.”.

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