Category: Inventory

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How to Use the Safety Stock Formula Guide

With the holiday peak season approaching, now is the time to start stocking your warehouse. Healthy inventory levels help you avoid stockouts while improving your overall inventory amounts and velocity. One formula that can help you determine how much inventory you need is the safety stock formula. Let’s explore what safety stock is, how to calculate it, and tips for using it in your inventory strategy.

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What is Backorder and How to Handle Without Losing Customers

Backorder — it’s a dirty little word that makes eCommerce companies cringe with worry. Backorders can delay customer order fulfillment, causing a domino effect on your sales, profits, operations, and reputation. But exactly what does backorder mean? Are there ways to prevent it and keep business moving forward? Here’s what you should know about back-ordering and how to potentially prevent it from affecting your business.

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Why Inventory Accuracy Is Key to Optimizing Your Supply Chain Performance

As a business owner, these words may fill you with dread. Inventory just doesn’t have the same glamor as marketing, product development, and the other more exciting aspects of running a business. At best, it tends to be thought of as a tedious, boring task. you with excitement. Why? Because they have the power to level up your entire supply chain performance. Which means more sales, more efficient fulfillment, more happy customers, and more business growth.

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Retail Returns Management: A Priority for eCommerce Businesses

$428 Billion. That’s the amount of product returned in 2020. Returns management is a process that involves interfacing with not just your customer but your operations and fulfillment solution. A returns management solution will help make your customers and your business’s bottom line easier with potentially fewer returns and more effective inventory forecasting and visibility. Read on to learn more.

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Breaking Down Shopify Inventory Management

Learn the steps to Shopify inventory management. We’ll break down the basics from how to add products to where to manage your inventory on Shopify. Next, you’ll find some key considerations for your eCommerce small business. You’ve got a great product and brought people to your eCommerce store, don’t lose out on a sales by not having your Shopify inventory set up right.

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How to Plan Inventory for a Peak Performace

How to plan inventory is a large question asked by many new businesses. This is especially crucial in today’s supply chain environment. Brands need to be more prepared and have greater visibility to their inventory than ever before. Here we’ll go into three essentials about how to plan your inventory: warehousing, final mile partners, and inventory visibility through reporting.

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Stockouts and 7 Steps to Avoid them and Jilted Shoppers

In eCommerce, fulfillment stockouts occur when customers order products that exceed the amount of inventory available on hand. Don’t let the supply chain environment take you by surprise. Learn the leading causes of stockouts and how to get ahead and prevent stockouts.

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