When we talk about intelligent retailing we talk about the
technologies, today used by retailer and eCommerce seller to offer better
pricing by optimizing the inventory. Intelligent retailing includes a whole
ambit of technologies like Big Data, artificial intelligence, machine learning,
new sensor hardware and varied solutions stemming from them.
Dynamic Pricing and inventory optimization
These retail
trends are designed to enable dynamic pricing, markdown optimization and
inventory optimization so that retailers can plan quantity and pricing of their
products appropriately. Simply put, cost savings for the retailer. The
predictive pricing solutions include usage of daily/weekly/monthly data and
uses historical trends and current sales metrics to forecast best pricing
scenarios to help the retailer in promotion planning and to determine
percentage of discount per product per region. Predictive inventory management
and cognitive demand forecasting solutions that were demonstrated a way to
optimize the stock and re-order at right junctures to reduce holding cost and
unnecessary discounting to clear old stock. Using smarter inventory management tools
using analytics and dashboards can also help the retailers to identify the
hot-selling product categories enabling them to plan their assortment strategy
in a more informed manner.
Over the last few years, we assume that retailers are feeling the
pressure of being left out if they don’t participate in seasonal sales and
other events fear a possible loss of promotion as they the stock and earn good
from this season sales. This is the reason of adopting intelligent retailing
solutions which might enable the retailers to become more efficient in
operations and optimize their pricing when and where needed. This would be help
for retailer to make a complete strategy for this seasonal events tom earn more.
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