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

Wiser

They are responsible for building a profitable, well-curated product assortment while ensuring pricing, promotions, and merchandising strategies align with business objectives. Their days are a flood of supplier negotiations, promotional planning, and cross-functional meetingsall demanding swift, strategic decision-making.

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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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Essential Knowledge for Streamlining Your Retail Audit Process

Wiser

Essential Knowledge to Optimize Your Retail Audit Process A well-executed retail audit provides critical visibility into everything from shelf conditions and associate performance to customer sentiment and promotional effectiveness. Photo documentationespecially for displays and endcapsensures promotional efforts are executed correctly.

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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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Product Substitution: How Savvy Retailers and Manufacturers can Build Supply Chain Resiliency, Reduce Costs and Improve Customer Experiences

Retail TouchPoints

They also offer discounts, promotions, free shipping and other value-added services for substitute products to make them more appealing. Streamlined inventory management: Leaner inventories reduce holding costs; however, retailers must be resourceful when planning for product availability.

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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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Survival guide: The keys to resilience and success in tough times

Inside Retail

Set benchmarks for inventory management, including the rate of inventory turnover and tracking and fill rate. Continue to review minimum stock limits and develop contingency plans should supply issues emerge. Pricing and promotional strategies will be vital as consumers are more cost-conscious.