(Trends, 5/6) Under margin pressure and faced with increasingly complex omnichannel flows, retailers are turning stock management into a strategic streamlining lever. Demand planning, OMS and predictive AI make it possible to orchestrate volumes in real time, refine the customer promise and reduce inventory losses. Driven by players such as Blue Yonder, Kinaxis, Stockly, Relex, Autone, OneStock, Manhattan, Smartway and Vusion, technologies are reshaping retail operational management.
The context
As operational efficiency and precision are now the watchwords in retail and e-commerce, omnichannel management of product flows, boosted by AI capabilities, lies at the heart of today’s challenges. This ecosystem includes a wide range of retail tech players, from major logistics software vendors (SAP, Oracle, Blue Yonder) to newer and smaller demand planning and OMS specialists.
More complex retailer organisations. Today, as product flows are often multi-warehouse, multi-country and
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Sophie Baqué
Chief Editor of mind Retail