Category Archives: Supply Chain Management

10 Ways Retailers Can Maximize EID Sales

10 Ways Retailers Can Maximize EID Sales Eid has always been a major event for retailers; be it commodity or fashion. Every customer is super important as everyone goes to retail stores or malls with a  strong consent to buy. … Continue reading

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Three Stages Of Replenishment Cycle

The goal for every retailer is to always have the product available at the location when the customer wants to purchase. Pre-season planning and forecasting no doubt plays a major role but once the season has been launched, it’s all … Continue reading

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Pre-season Planning: A key to taking a confident initial season bet

With increasing lead times and shortening selling season span, it is becoming impossible not to focus your energy towards pre-season planning. This gives a retailer the confidence to take a calculated initial bet to achieve his sales and inventory targets … Continue reading

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Stop Fighting Fire . . Do a better job at pushing the season initially

Often we focus all our efforts and energy optimizing one part of the story and forget about the small triggers that can result in significant benefits to the whole system. In retail, the planners usually put in numerous hours analyzing … Continue reading

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Merchandise Planning: Rocket Science or Common Sense?

Whenever we talk about assortment planning, some high tech intelligent systems come to our mind and we believe that until unless we don’t have such systems in place, we cannot manage inventory. Actually, it’s a misconception. Retailers used to plan … Continue reading

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