Inventory and ROI: Key Takeaways from Our Executive Roundtable

Following our very informative recent virtual roundtable of supply chain executives facilitated by my colleague David Kane, I was anxious to take a turn in the moderator’s chair for our next executive roundtable, ‘How to Maximize ROI of Your Inventory in Today’s Uncertain World?’, this past August 11.  

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Driving Size Optimization Precision

During the last 12 months, fashion retailers heavily invested in tightening assortments and improving their inventory efficiency. While these investments are needed, all the benefits come undone if a customer cannot find their size. Worse, tightening assortments exacerbates the size stock-out problem, damages customer satisfaction, and creates significant financial pain unless size allocation is accurate. A 20% size misallocation drops margin dollars by 50% if markdown pricing is uniform across all sizes. 

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Omnichannel Inventory Optimization – Achieving Unified In-season Merchandising

With growing eCommerce channels and increased online shopping behavior, omnichannel retailers are grappling with the increased complexity brought on, in part, by current events, but more so the anticipated need to combine online and in-store merchandising, especially for the “new normal”. Siloed decisions around allocation, promotions, in-season pricinginventory transfers and fulfillment will fail to deliver the expected margin performance unless they address the interconnectedness of online and stores.  

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