23 Ways to Improve Your Inventory Management

| Curt Barry

In the age of omnichannel, inventory management has become a strategic function impacting profitability. Based on work with hundreds of multichannel companies, here are areas to consider making changes in order to get more out of your inventory investment.

Being Holiday Ready: Tips for Perfecting the Omnichannel Strategy

| Bobbi Leach

By upgrading omnichannel options like in-store pickup or same-day delivery, businesses can help customers customize their shopping experience to fit their personal needs during the rush of the holidays. While becoming an omnichannel retailer can seem like a daunting effort, these tips will better position retailers for growth this holiday season.

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Creating a Winning Omnichannel Experience

| MCM Staff

How do you deliver a seamless omnichannel experience and avoid margin erosion? In this new video from Multichannel Merchant, Radial executive John Byrde provides insights and tips that can help you achieve both.

Inventory Visibility: The Real Omnichannel Challenge

| Mike O'Brien

Omnichannel has become a standard practice in retail, but how well are companies achieving inventory visibility across channels that is so critical to its success?
In this infographic from Stitch Labs, see where the gaps are between omnichannel vision and reality, and what steps can be taken to see improvements.

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Omnichannel Drives a Revolution in IT Architecture

| Ali Hodroj

Today, the omnichannel experience is the pinnacle of customer engagement. Retailers of all sizes are determined to offer an omnichannel approach, even if they can’t agree on what that means. See why omnichannel is important for your business and how you can be sucessful.

Save the Date: Operations Summit 2017

| Mike O'Brien

The Multichannel Merchant team is getting geared up and excited about the sixth annual Operations Summit 2017, which will be held in Pittsburgh, PA March 27-29 at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center. Put it in your calendar now to make sure you and your team don’t miss the only event exclusively about direct-to-customer and omnichannel operations.

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Omnichannel Is The New Black

| Channie Mize

Data and big data are playing a major role in the buying process. It is helping retailers optimize margins, pricing and promotions that they run. While data analytics is a step in the right direction, customers today want omnichannel experiences. Here are ways you can give your customers these types of experiences to close the sale.

Oracle Buys Cloud-Based WMS LogFire

| Mike O'Brien

Oracle has acquired LogFire, which provides a cloud-based system integrating warehouse, inventory and workforce management. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. This comes on the heels of Oracle’s major $9.3 billion acquisition of Netsuite in August, as it continues to aggressively push into cloud-based supply chain management and logistics.