Tame The Inventory Beast By Going Mobile
The mobile revolution helps retailers get through inventory season. Here is how mobile can help your inventory in the warehouse during the busiest time of the year.
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Inventory Visibility: The Real Omnichannel Challenge
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.
Making Omnichannel Fulfillment a Less Daunting Task
Offering customers the convenience of buy online pickup in store and ship to store, and transparently speeding up delivery to homes with ship from store, can be a daunting task. Download Multichannel Merchant’s special report on omnichannel fulfillment and learn.
Fulfillment Efficiency, Inventory Visibility Up Chubbies Experience
Chubbies, a San Francisco-based lifestyle apparel brand, was looking to reduce its manual fulfillment processes and increase inventory visibility in order to drive order accuracy and customer satisfaction. See how Stitch Labs increased Chubbies’s operational efficiency and improve inventory accuracy, increasing customer satisfaction.
3 Inventory Management Principles Ecommerce Companies Shouldn’t Ignore
Despite the importance of properly managing inventory, it is estimated that nearly half of small businesses fail to track it, even though it should be the number one priority. So what does winning inventory management look like? Here are 3 guiding principles for you to follow.
How to Win in Omnichannel Inventory Management
Omnichannel commerce and all its permutations are causing direct-to-customer companies to seek new solutions and approaches to inventory management in order to tame increasingly complex order and fulfillment patterns while meeting rising customer demands. In this MCM report, learn how things like distributed order management and inventory visibility solutions can help you avoid the pitfalls and cut down on overstocks, out-of-stocks and returns.
How Comfortable Club Makes its Underwear Visible to Shoppers
As Kickstarter-funded premium underwear provider Comfortable Club starting expanding its sales channels to include Amazon as a marketplace seller as well as using its Fulfillment by Amazon service, inventory management and visibility across channels started to become a serious issue. Click here to find out how Stitch Labs made Comfortable Club’s underwear inventory more visible.
New Guideline Seeks to Harmonize Ecommerce Fulfillment Processes
A new guideline focused on omnichannel and ecommerce fulfillment processes has been released by GS1 US to help the retail industry evolve toward a single fulfillment process for improved cost savings and maximized resources.
Erik Caldwell of Hudson’s Bay Company Talks “All-Channel”
Erik Caldwell, senior vice president of logistics and supply chain for Hudson’s Bay Company, was featured in Multichannel Merchant’s April 2016 cover story talking about his role there, industry trends and the company’s acquisition of Gilt. In this excerpt from the Q&A, see what Caldwell has to say about the impact of omnichannel or “all-channel” on the retail world.
6 Steps to a More Effective, Holistic Omnichannel Strategy
A cross-functional approach is key to a successful omnichannel strategy, enabling a seamless customer experience that can drives sales and profits. Merchandising, logistics, marketing and planning departments all play a key role in the assortment, pricing and promotions that influence the outcome. Without across-the-board participation, your efforts can fall flat. Here are 6 steps to a more effective omnichannel strategy.