Buying, Merchandising, Category Management
- 30th November 2018
In this section you will find all blogs relevant to Buying, Merchandising and Category management.
- 23rd March 2018 Inventory productivity is about efficiency not economies of scale
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We’ve done some analysis on data from 28 UK based fashion retailers. They have all filed data at the UK Companies House, an official Government Department. The horizontal ...
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- 19th February 2018 Use Your Customer Knowledge
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This chart shows a typical consumer decile analysis. If you have an online channel, you should be able to produce this for your online customers. If you have a ...
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- 5th February 2018 Some easy, but not so obvious, ways to reduce your safety stock
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Martec has carried out many projects for retailers where the goal has been to reduce safety stock. Normally we’ve reduced store / SKU forecast error by at least 10%. So ...
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- 10th January 2018 Creating the optimum assortment using good, better, best
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Creating the perfect assortment means juggling a number of different considerations. These tips are based on project experience with our clients Follow a good, better, best philosophy. ...
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- 10th January 2018 Four top tips for better allocation and replenishment
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If you don’t have the world’s best allocation and replenishment software there are still things you can do to improve your allocation and replenishment effectiveness. Here’s ...
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