Not an Ideal Predicament
Depleted revenue, compressed margins, a shortage of labor, plus an infrastructure not designed for an online volume consisting of 40-60% of total sales. Not ideal for fashion retailers. And beyond that, retailers experience up to 8 percentage points of margin loss on a digital order.1
Many forecasts, especially historical-based forecasts, were rendered useless during this pandemic, forcing many to rely on manual intuition for the foreseeable future. But from any disruption comes the next generation. In this special podcast, Joe Vernon, Capgemini America Retail and CPG Transformation Leader and Siva Lakshmanan, antuit.ai EVP Forecasting & Digital Supply Chain, discuss next-generation forecasting, Consumption Sensing, and how it detects consumer behavior shifts much more quickly and accurately than traditional methods.
As the economy slowly begins to open, retailers must prudently plan on what to do with their inventory as their stores reopen and demand returns. In this video, David Barach, VP of Marketing and Pricing Analytics, demonstrates antuit.ai’s Retail Inventory Simulator as a follow-up from his previous Webinar: Retailers, COVID-19, and the Future – Part 1.
Over recent months, the global pandemic has shifted the rules of engagement for everyone, both professionally and personally. For many retail companies, doors continue to remain closed, demand for products continues to fade, and consumers are now categorizing products into either ‘essential’ or ‘non-essential’ buckets. Some Consumer Products companies (CPG) seem to be benefiting during this time as they continue to manufacture ‘essential’ products and distribute them effectively across all channels, including ecommerce. However, as the world starts to see the light at the end of a pandemic tunnel, how will this shift their CPG pricing strategy?
As China, South Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan are reopening their stores after COVID-19, what can US fashion retailers learn from their experience and apply to their own business? Unfortunately, there’s some good and bad.
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