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How Enterprise Modernization and Artificial Intelligence are Charting a New Course for the Consumer Industry

Retail TouchPoints

They strive to create seamless, personalized customer experiences to continue to attract discerning consumers and build efficient supply chains, yet they often encounter barriers presented by fragmented technology infrastructure, which hinders scalability without disruption. These businesses find themselves at a demanding intersection.

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Smart Contactless Lockers are Helping Retailers’ Order Fulfillment Efforts

Retail TouchPoints

To understand why, we have to delve into the evolution of order fulfillment. Traditionally, when customers ordered products or goods online, they were shipped to their house. Not long thereafter, retailers started rolling out BOPIS (buy online, pick up in-store) and created the order pickup desk.

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A Retail Crossroads: How Automation Can Help Retailers Bounce Back

Retail TouchPoints

With fewer people than ever heading to brick-and-mortar stores, the ongoing warehouse labor shortage and the challenge of tracking and moving inventory between fulfillment nodes, many retailers are left struggling to meet customer demands. The most important part of a retail fulfillment strategy is getting goods to customers.

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Five Best Practices In Retail Inventory Management

RetailMinded

Having the right products available when your customers need them is critical to improving customer satisfaction and increasing revenue. You can’t meet customer demand or avoid overstocking and understocking popular items without knowing how much stock you have on hand. Another approach is the use of forecasting software.

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Choosing Between Self-fulfillment, 3rd-party Logistics and Dropshipping

Ecommerce Platforms

You've done the product development, built your ecommerce site, worked on marketing and acquired your first customer. Now it's the moment of truth: Fulfilling the order. Order fulfillment doesn't come into play during the sales process, but it's arguably one of the most important aspects of maintaining loyal customers.

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You Can’t Spell Retail Without AI: How To Optimize Your Chain Retail Store Design With Data Science

RTP blog

From what’s in stock to the size of the customer service desk, data science rules the decision-making process. AI can help crunch the data around population trends, shopping habits, travel patterns and competitor reach, identifying the factors that represent an ideal location for your store.

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16 Tasks to Outsource to Scale Your Shopify Store

Ecommerce Platforms

Order Fulfillment. If you're not utilizing the dropshipping business model, outsourcing order fulfillment is a godsend. This is where outsourcing order fulfillment comes into its own. This is how it works: In short, order fulfillment providers stock your goods for you. Social Media Management.

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