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Product Sourcing: The Complete Guide for Retail & eCommerce

Unleashed

Where you buy your products from and how you find those suppliers largely determines your ceiling for success as an eCommerce merchant or retailer. Product sourcing, done the right way, can set your business up with the foundations needed for achieving maximum sales. What is product sourcing? Where can you source products from?

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Four Ways of Using Cluster Analysis in Retail Management to Improve Sales

Logistics Viewpoints

The retail industry is rich with data. Four Ways of Using Cluster Analysis in Retail. Retailers can apply cluster analysis techniques in different ways to find groups of customers, products, stores, or suppliers that behave similarly. However, using metrics that can be easily tracked and updated is recommended.

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What Are Retail KPIs? The Most Important Retail Metrics in 2023

ShipBob

As a retailer, so much of your time and energy goes into managing your inventory , streamlining your logistics, building partnerships, and curating the customer experience. To find out, you’ll need to track Key performance Indicators, or KPIs, for your retail business. What is a retail KPI? Why are retail metrics important?

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Top 6 Retail Trends & Supply Chain Planning Challenges in 2023

Logistics Viewpoints

Retailers know firsthand how quickly the market can change. Continuing Disruptions in Transportation and Sourcing Materials After the pandemic, retailers are faced with new challenges and disruptions due to global conflicts, trade restrictions, and now recessions. The retailers feel the impacts of the recession fast and deeply.

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Beyond the Aisles: A Roadmap for the “End-to-End” Era in Grocery Retail

BlueYonder

As grocery retail value chains have innovated past new challenges, increased value chain integration asks a relevant and timely question: is it time for retail value chains to behave and operate as one single ecosystem ? Aligning the grocery retail ecosystem around real-time inventory marks the initial stride.

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What is Sourcing? Definition, Strategy, & Difference Between Procurement and Sourcing

ShipBob

Where you get these from, or how you source them, can be a huge decision. Sourcing can seem overwhelming if you’re a brand or retail buyer not entirely sure what you’re doing, but it can significantly impact the quality, cost, and availability of your products. What is strategic sourcing? What is procurement?

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NRF 2022: Retailers and Brand Owners Can Drive Resilience With Commitment to Sustainability 

Logility

From empty store shelves and unfilled job openings to surging inflation and increasingly organized store theft, retailers and brand owners face a wide range of significant challenges. While the concept of sustainability is not new, its role in the future of retail is. It’s Time to Think About Sustainability Differently.