Intelligent Omni-Inventory for Hardlines Retail
Customers Won’t Buy What They Can’t Find
Availability is the biggest issue facing hardlines retailers. Customers can’t buy products that aren’t available. Customers typically look for a basket of connected items, not just single items and out of stocks can result in potential shoppers abandoning the entire basket. The challenge becomes even greater as omni-channel becomes a customer requirement.
Zebra's Report: The Next Wave of Retail Fulfillment covers a clear issue – out of stocks are frustrating customers. 71% of shoppers leave without the items they came to buy. 45% say it was due to out-of-stocks.
Read on to learn how Blue Yonder can help you achieve a dynamic supply chain, built around the customer.
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Improve Availability in Omni-Channel Hardlines Retailing
Blue Yonder helps hardlines retailers like you achieve higher availability with less safety stock, as well as become more adaptable to potential changes.
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Six Steps to a More Dynamic Hardlines Supply Chain
Better inventory management in hardlines retail starts with understanding customer needs, then aligning product flow to the most productive location in the most efficient way, while navigating disruption via end-to-end visibility. Here are 6 steps you can take to put the customer at the heart of your supply chain and ensure that planners are always in control.
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Master Omni-Channel Inventory in a Dynamic World
Looking for a smarter way to manage your organization’s inventory? Discover how Blue Yonder helps hardlines retailers like yours align supply chain to local customer need, resulting in improved in-stock position, increased sell throughs and reduced on-hand inventory.
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The Blue Yonder Difference
Dynamic Machine LearningAdaptive ML demand forecast
Self-learning, incorporating shopper behavior and attributes
Intuitively understands the customer
Streamlined and Simplified ProcessesAutomated slow sellers, seasonal items and new products
End-to-end visibility of inventory
Disruption management tools
Industry Workflows and AnalyticsQuick time to value
Integrated allocation and replenishment
Analytics and dashboards
Retail Success
- Wickes Paints Consumer-Centric Omnichannel Fulfillment Strategy
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- Achieve a demand projection with calculated business impact and risk,
- Enable better inventory management
- Gain an improved understanding of demand drivers and customer behaviour.
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- HEMA Manages Demand and Supply Through Disruptive Times
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- Enabled greater accuracy and improved inventory management.
- Improved forecast accuracy.
- Better managed supply constraints.
- Improved safety stock levels.
- Improved efficiency for SC planners.
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- Marks & Spencer Maximizes Agility via Cloud-Based Planning
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- Increased agility as conditions change
- Lower total cost of software ownership
- Immediate access to new functionality and innovations
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- LL Bean Improves Customer Service and Inventory Productivity
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- Gained more accurate read on market
- Automated and integrated processes
- Increased inventory productivity
- Increased inventory productivity
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Powering World Leading Hardlines Retailers
Join these industry leaders in running a smarter, more dynamic omni-channel approach to inventory management, built on retail’s most extensive supply chain platform.
