{"id":2517,"date":"2023-01-19T03:34:53","date_gmt":"2023-01-19T03:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.rithum.com\/resources\/eliminating-excess-inventory-for-brands-and-retailers\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T21:49:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T21:49:18","slug":"eliminating-excess-inventory-for-brands-and-retailers","status":"publish","type":"resource","link":"https:\/\/www.rithum.com\/resources\/eliminating-excess-inventory-for-brands-and-retailers\/","title":{"rendered":"Eliminating Excess Inventory for Brands and Retailers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As inflation worries and economic uncertainty influence consumers\u2019 e-commerce purchases, you may find your inventory calculations don\u2019t match demand. Perhaps some products didn\u2019t sell as well as you thought or your customers have cut back on their orders.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are plenty of ways to mitigate inventory abundance. However, each tactic\u2019s success will depend on how well it addresses your specific business goals.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this guide, we address the retailer- and brand-specific challenges of excess inventory, which strategies that work best to keep sales flowing and steps to prevent inventory strain from becoming a larger issue.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2518,"template":"","topic":[313,305],"asset_type":[],"class_list":["post-2517","resource","type-resource","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","topic-general-e-commerce","topic-marketplaces"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.6 (Yoast SEO v27.7) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Eliminating Excess Inventory for Brands and Retailers | Rithum<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rithum.com\/resources\/eliminating-excess-inventory-for-brands-and-retailers\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Eliminating Excess Inventory for Brands and Retailers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"As inflation worries and economic uncertainty influence consumers\u2019 e-commerce purchases, you may find your inventory calculations don\u2019t match demand. 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