The supermarkets have 6% of the consumer market but vend 80% of best sellers. They require huge discounts and so your margin relies on keeping costs to a minimum. This means handling more areas of both the traditional and digital supply chain with an integrated system. Dealing with online stores or supermarkets requires automated systems that will improve revenues with demand planning and forecasting, as well as returns and warehouse management.
You can accelerate supply using SMI (supplier managed inventory). Your systems communicate, using a range of B2B standards, with your suppliers and customers, to automate orders and delivery processes. You can extract demand forecasts from customers’ systems and plan your production schedules and purchases more efficiently to drive down costs.
Customers want access to a searchable catalogue with stock and delivery information- the web is the obvious route. Setting up web access is the first step to a consumer sales channel. Simply integrate web management and e-commerce with an inventory management system to open up a revenue stream for backlist titles.
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