Enterra Insights

JUNE 25, 2019

Retail Shrinkage is a serious retail challenge, especially when its causes can’t be accurately determined. For the last few years, inventory shrinkage has annually cost U.S. retailers just under $50 billion combined. ” Regardless of how inventory is lost, shrinkage costs retailers a lot of money.

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ToolsGroup

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

The wonderful world of retail. The Retail Trends Shaping How We Shop in 2022. The Retail Trends Shaping How We Shop in 2022. From a digitally-transformed shopping experience to global supply chain disruptions and a pandemic that refuses to quit, there’s one thing retailers can count on: People are always going to shop.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 6, 2019

The research focused on the inventory visibility and optimization challenges that companies face today related to omni-channel fulfillment and the actions they should take to elevate their omni-channel performance. And it begins with improving their inventory accuracy. The Inventory Accuracy “Confidence Gap”.

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Enterra Insights

JULY 19, 2021

While it is too soon to declare victory over the Covid-19 pandemic, brick-and-mortar retail is seeing signs of renewed vigor. ” To take advantage of shoppers returning to stores, retailers need to do more than simply open their doors. retail sits at the edge of a second pandemic-fueled transformation. 3] They are: 1.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 22, 2019

Smaller, more agile companies outperform the larger and well-known brands in the retail, beverages, food, and pharmaceutical industry sectors. Over the last month, I have been working on the 2019 Supply Chains to Admire analysis. It is not as simple as trading-off inventory, cost, and customer service. Imagine Supply Chain 2030.

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Enterra Insights

JUNE 1, 2021

Although every economic sector undergoes constant change, the retail sector has probably seen more changes in a shorter period of time than most other sectors. With all of the changes in the retail environment and the continued shift away from conventional technologies, cognitive computing in retail is becoming increasingly important.”[1]

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JDA software

JANUARY 8, 2019

It’s a new year and retail is moving faster—finally we’re seeing retailers looking in the right direction—up. So, take five, grab a cup of coffee and read on for my predictions of what the end of a decade in retail has in store. Here are five ways you’ll see the retail industry changing this year: 1.

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Kinaxis

MARCH 20, 2019

In adidas’s recent earnings call, CEO Kasper Rorsted warned that adidas would miss its 2019 growth target because its supply chain was unable to meet the huge demand for its mid-priced apparel, especially in North America. The CEO went on to imply that losing sales was preferable to building excess inventory. by Harish Iyer.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 22, 2019

Even our most popular post, which dealt with excess inventory and yard management, had a transportation bent to it. Overall, the first quarter of 2019 proves yet again that there’s never a dull moment in this industry. Excess Inventory? No Problem. You Have Trailers In the Yard.­

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C3 Solutions

JULY 22, 2020

This article is part of our Retail Program. Designed specifically to support global leaders by aiding in creating a strategic plan to help them win the retail game. These systems are the brains that help retail operations stay ahead of the competition, by enabling the addition of new automated systems. Learn more about it now!

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 21, 2020

What was behind Amazon’s falling profits in 2019, and how did other big online retail players perform? In this retrospective of the highs and lows of the year, learn which retailers excelled, and which ones looked like they might be struggling in the fiercely competitive online retail arena. Let’s dive in and take a look.

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

By now, most people are aware of the spate of retailer bankruptcies and store closures referred to in the press as the Retail Apocalypse. “For years now,” writes Ryan Lester, Director of Customer Engagement Technologies at LogMeIn, “traditional retail stores have been under attack.

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C3 Solutions

JULY 28, 2020

This article is part of our Retail Program. Designed specifically to support global leaders by aiding in creating a strategic plan to help them win the retail game. 2 Cooler heads have prevailed now, though, and Gartner's best guess was in 2019 there would be 14.2 in 2019, for example. in 2014 to just 4 cents in 2019.

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Cathy Roberson

AUGUST 15, 2022

Many retailers are feeling inventory pains despite assuring analysts that they're quite pleased with their inventory levels. Mind you, some retailers may indeed be pleased with their inventory levels, but others may be trying to figure out where to store the excess inventory since so many warehouses are beyond full.

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Stord

JULY 9, 2019

Wednesday, July 10, 2019 2019 Warehouse Robotics Usage Increases to 25% Supply chain consultancy EFT has reported 7% more survey respondents are testing robotics in selected warehouses in 2019, up from 18.4%

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Enterra Insights

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Traditionally the holiday shopping season has been a make-or-break time for retailers. It’s still important, but Lauren Thomas ( @laurenthomas ) reports, “Coresight Research … says the holiday season is becoming ‘less important’ for retailers, with more shopping taking place online throughout the year.

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

The big news in retail over the past two decades has been the rise of e-commerce which has resulted in the so-called retail apocalypse. Daphne Howland ( @daphnehowland ) reports any eulogies being written about brick-and-mortar retail’s demise are premature. Retail trends. E-commerce. ” Trend 2.

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ToolsGroup

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Mi9 Retail’s Demand Management business was formerly known as JustEnough Software. Combined company gives retailers a powerful new technology arsenal to efficiently improve product availability under constrained supply and outperform the competition. Acquisition coincides with significant new growth investment from Accel-KKR.

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RELEX Solutions

JANUARY 23, 2019

Retailers have been dealing with constant change for decades and if anyone has earned a break, they have. Early last year we wrote about the biggest trends in grocery retail for 2018. All of these are still relevant today and will keep on forming the retail spectrum. Grocery retailers haven’t yet found an obvious equivalent.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 19, 2020

They rock back and forth in improving singular metrics but struggle to improve a portfolio of growth, margin, inventory performance, and asset utilization. Comparing 2010-2019. When we look at public companies at the intersection of operating margin and inventory turns or growth and Return on Invested Capital.

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Stord

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Stord’s OMS software allows KAI Media to view and manage orders and inventory across its entire international network in one place, enabling the team to automate its entire order routing process faster and more intelligently. and Europe.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Only four percent of companies compared to their peer groups improved balance sheet performance of growth, operating margin, and inventory turns. When compared to pre-recession years, we ended the decade with twenty more days of inventory. Days of Inventory Comparison. Both companies outperformed their peer groups.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The continued growth in e-commerce retail sales has been largely driven by factors such as convenience, product selection and lower prices. As online shopping continues to grow – retail e-commerce sales are expected to make up nearly a quarter of total retail sales worldwide by 2026 – returns will become more prevalent.

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Stord

APRIL 11, 2022

The out-of-stock sticker shock we experienced in the past few years is forcing retailers to take a hard look at how they plan inventory. Product availability was a clear problem during the pandemic: last holiday season, consumers saw over 6 billion out-of-stock messages online , a 253% increase over the 2019 season.

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RELEX Solutions

JUNE 28, 2019

RELEX is looking for the best Retail and Supply Chain Master’s Thesis submitted in a European university during the year 2019. Are you a recently graduated supply chain specialist or finalizing your master’s thesis with a focus on retail planning? Please note, that the application deadline is December 31st, 2019.

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Stord

JANUARY 30, 2019

Now is a great time for shippers to take stock of what happened in 2018 so they can prepare for what’s coming in 2019. What it means for 2019: FedEx’s adjustment shows the extensive impact of high volume on supply chains. It’s likely that we will see more permanent initiatives to handle high demand in 2019 from other companies.

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Enterra Insights

JUNE 24, 2020

Years before the novel coronavirus pandemic shut down economies, analysts were writing about the retail apocalypse and what it would take for brick-and-mortar retailers to survive. Analysts generally cite three contributing factors for the retail apocalypse: overbuilding, too much debt, and e-commerce (aka the Amazon Effect).

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Enterra Insights

MAY 13, 2019

Over the past several years, thousands of brick-and-mortar retail stores have closed in what has been called the Retail Apocalypse. “As a result,” Wigglesworth wrote, “many big retailers are shuttering stores across the US.” ” The future of the retail apocalypse. . in the previous four.”[2]

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Alloy

MARCH 21, 2019

Consumer goods brands that are looking to grow in 2019 and beyond need to take a closer look at their retail analytics. Retailers will expect store-specific, real-time insights tailored to their strategic priorities.” So, with that in mind, let’s take a look at the trends in retail analytics in 2019 and beyond.

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BlueYonder

JANUARY 8, 2019

It’s a new year and retail is moving faster—finally we’re seeing retailers looking in the right direction—up. So, take five, grab a cup of coffee and read on for my predictions of what the end of a decade in retail has in store. Here are five ways you’ll see the retail industry changing this year: 1.

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Enterra Insights

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The benefits of this model include cost reductions in storage and inventory. retailers struggled to replace those products, leaving consumers empty-handed and frustrated. For example, PS Subramaniam , a partner at Kearney, writes, “[A]n inventory glut of high-end electronic components is an expensive problem.

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Clear Spider

DECEMBER 18, 2019

As 2019 draws to a close, we can begin to celebrate the coming of the new year…but not before reflecting on the 2019 supply chain logistics trends of the past 12 months! 2019 Supply Chain Logistics Trends. Want to learn more about Inventory Management Solutions ? The overall cost of supply chain logistics rose 11.4%

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Stord

APRIL 14, 2019

The British retailer River Island raised its inventory accuracy from 72% to 97% after implementing the use of RFID tags. In addition, the company has increased the frequency of its inventory counts to weekly. Despite this recent downturn, employment in the subsector is up in 2019 as a whole.

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Vinculum

JULY 18, 2022

The retail market makes a business’s purpose easy to access without a second thought. Retailing is one of the appropriate ways to boost the world’s economy significantly. As per a study retailing contributes to 40% of the U.S Retailers are looking for a variety of products at a cheap cost.

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Logistics Bureau

MAY 3, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about a decade of changes to the retail world in just a year and a half or so. Few retailers can hope to grow, or even survive today, without the ability to sell through ecommerce channels. So how have retailers fared in the online and traditional sales environments during all this turmoil?

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 11, 2023

billion in 2019. Fast forward 5 years, and ARC’s 2019 base-year study estimated the market at $11.9 Inventory Management in a High Inflation Environment ; Clint Reiser. Instead, they are likely to carry higher levels of inventory as a lower cost alternative to minimizing disruptions. Well, I am saying it.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Inventory Is an Egregious Symptom of Supply Chains Gone Wrong. Today, inventory fire sales abound. Headline news included Wal-Mart, Target, Kohl’s and Macy’s struggling with inventory bloat and offering deep discounts. Business continuity continues to be a risk for many retailers and manufacturers. My take away?

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