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Giant Eagle to Enhance Category Management at Nearly 500 Stores

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Giant Eagle will upgrade its category management capabilities across its 216 supermarkets and 274 GetGo convenience stores, allowing the retailer to make more informed decisions about which products are placed where within its stores.

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8fig Raises $140M to Support Online Sellers with Funding, Financial Management Tools

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8fig , a funding and management platform for ecommerce businesses, has closed a $140 million Series B funding round, bringing its total funding to date to $196.5 8fig provides ecommerce businesses (primarily marketplace sellers) with bespoke funding plans, optimized according to their supply chain and cash flow needs, to accelerate growth.

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Purple Shares Ascend Following Coliseum Capital Management Acquisition Bid

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Purple Innovation has confirmed that investment firm Coliseum Capital Management made an unsolicited, non-binding proposal to acquire all outstanding capital stock of the digitally native mattress company for $4.35 per share on Sept. The news of the acquisition bid sent shares of Purple soaring to approximately $3.85 when markets opened Sept.

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Why Data Will Drive the Future of Inventory Management

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Retailers acted with agility, changing the way they planned and managed inventory in a remarkably short time. Effective inventory management plays a vital role in this — and data-led solutions can make a real difference here. In the years to come, AI will prove extremely useful in supply chain management.

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Digitalization Can Help Mitigate Climate-Related Supply Chain Disruptions

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They hit the supply chain without warning, and businesses are alarmingly vulnerable to them. Ensuring a 360-degree view of the actors and entities that make up the supply chain network forms the foundation of those strategies. A comprehensive supply chain management platform can do so much more than that, however.

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Is it Time to Upgrade Your WMS to a Fulfillment Management System?

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Flawless execution of fulfillment operations is the baseline for competing in the marketplace, and traditional warehouse management systems (WMS) can’t keep up. That’s where a modern fulfillment management system (FMS) steps in to meet both internal and external needs. Does keeping up with seasonal fluctuations stress your operations?

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How Hot Topic and Lamps Plus Mastered Inventory Management and More

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Smart retailers are realizing that their increasingly complex omnichannel offerings have made strong supply chain management more important than ever. Another key challenge for Hot Topic’s inventory management system is ensuring its BOPIS options run smoothly even as it fulfills orders across multiple channels.