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Inventory Management for Scaling ($1M+) Businesses: Techniques You Need to Know Before You Go Bust

BigCommerce

Sales trends include events like holidays, cold and hot weather, and popular opinion that drive sales up or down for one product or another, as well as trends in behavior. For example, JIT or Just in Time inventory is a model that focuses on reducing costs by stocking the minimum amount to prevent a stock out event. Merchandising.

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How 3 Global Brands Scaled Using a Product Information Management (PIM) Solution

BigCommerce

A PIM syncs, feeds and receives product data into every component of a commerce technology stack (e.g., ecommerce software , ERP, OMS, third-party integration, etc.) Readiness State Change Events. eCommerce Platform Publication. Product Feeds and Electronic Data Interchange (EDI). Legacy Data Conversion.