M+E Daily
No Problem…I’ll Buy It On Amazon
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Colleen Quinn, Global Program Director of Interactive Advertising and Media & Entertainment at supply chain systems provider Teradata, shines a light on the shortcomings of vendor-managed inventory in home entertainment retail. According to Teradata, retail stock-outs stand at somewhere between 5% and 8%, while overstock conditions continue to climb as a result of poor forecasting. “This means that when people — like me — want to buy a specific new release title, it’s often not available,” Quinn writes.
