From Reactive to Predictive: The AI Leap in Grocery Retail Replenishment
The gap between “digitized” and “intelligent” replenishment is where millions in revenue, customer loyalty, and operational efficiency are won or lost. Whether your grocery store replenishment is going to be a tale of success or a saga of misery from wastage or losses hinges on the accuracy of your forecasts and the adaptability of your […]
What’s Breaking Forecast Accuracy in Health, Beauty & Wellness Retail? And, How to Fix It?
The darling of the consumer goods market, the $646.20 billion global beauty and personal care market is expanding its scope and definitions. Be it products or segments, the health, beauty, and retail ecosystem is bubbling with constant transformations – wellness and beauty merging to form highly nuanced products for Gen Alpha, while adaptogens and dermal […]
Retail at Culture Speed: 5 Big Ideas from NRF APAC 2025
NRF APAC 2025, held June 3-5 in Singapore, didn’t just spotlight the latest in retail technology — it revealed a clear call to reset, reimagine, and realign. Across packed halls and intimate sessions, the takeaway was unmistakable: in a world that’s racing forward, relevance is no longer a nice-to-have. It’s oxygen. What stood out wasn’t […]
Is Your Replenishment Truly Strategic? Top Priorities for Health, Beauty, and Wellness Retailers
With 95% of consumers planning to increase their spending, the trillion-dollar shiny and glamorous retail segment of health, beauty, and wellness is a ripe opportunity up for grabs. However, new geographic hotspots, diminishing boundaries between wellness and beauty, and rapidly evolving trends are setting the stage for adaptive and agile retail planning. Is your replenishment […]
Transforming Supplier Collaboration With Automation – Challenges and Road Ahead
As businesses embrace technology-driven capabilities globally, the word collaboration assumes a critical stance, especially in industries that thrive on seamless functioning across multiple disparate components. Retail is an epitome in this regard, with its success hinging on transparency, responsiveness, integrated management, and comprehensive visibility, among other factors. This is exactly why supplier collaboration matters for […]
Secret Santa Says – Automate Your Retail Planning for a Merry Christmas All the Way
The latest issue of Great Christmas Gazette is out and the gifts community is abuzz with the talks of holiday demand fluctuations, supply-side deviations, and snarling inefficiencies creeping from crevices of manual interventions. The fulfillment teams are working overtime and gift shop shelves are teeming with new enticing and never-before-seen items. Suppliers are getting orders […]
Inventory Forecasting – Trends, Techniques, and Best Practices
Accurate inventory forecasting is the heart of retail planning and inventory optimization. Capturing demand accurately and optimizing inventory accordingly can not only reduce inventory costs but can also help retailers boost customer satisfaction, improve shelf availability, and increase inventory ROI. With fierce competition, rapidly evolving customer preferences, and quick new product and brand introductions, retailers […]
Top 10 Inventory Management KPIs Every Retailer Must Track
As a leading technology provider for some of the largest retail brands globally, we have witnessed how inventory can be the Achilles Heel for businesses across multiple industries. From millions of dollars drained in lost sales owing to inaccurate demand planning to inefficient promotions degrading the profitability, and high holding costs chipping the bottom lines […]
An Industry-Wise Approach to Exploring the Benefits of Inventory Optimization in Retail
According to Statista, global inventory distortions cost retailers as much as USD 580 million. Also, the value of grocery retail items going out of stock exceeds USD 500 million. Add increasing fulfillment costs for merchants, longer lead times, demand for better assortment across multiple categories, and breakneck competition to the mix and the retailers end […]
Hey There, Retailer! Let’s Make Your Inventories Holiday-Ready!
Early shopper waves, midnight snackers, holiday hoarders, and last-minute planners – the holiday frenzy has uncertain customer highs and lows. Tagging along the nuanced customer are the retailers – convenience and grocery alike – dealing with the holiday rush, promotions, inventory planning, and supplier-induced disruption. With trends in purchase and pricing fluctuating rapidly, retailers often […]