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Global Online Shopping Revolution: How Online Retailers Can Thrive
Now that ecommerce is a global phenomenon, what can online retailers do to captivate shoppers, ensure repeat purchases, and tap into new revenue streams? The latest Online Shopper Trends Report by DHL reveals the trends that small and medium-sized businesses cannot overlook.
Read MoreBeyond the Rack: Retail Supply Chain Strategies That Work
In the challenging retail sector, supply chain efficiency can be the difference between succeeding and just barely hanging on. From weaving together disparate systems into a single information flow, to ensuring products appear effortlessly on shelves, to fulfilling online orders with lightning speed, here’s how thriving retailers rack and roll.
Read MoreWES for Success: Preparing Your Operations for Success in an Ecommerce World
Ensuring your fulfillment center overcomes ecommerce challenges starts with an effective pick, pack, and ship strategy, supported by a robust warehouse execution system that enables continuous processing.
Read MoreThe Future of Cargo Measurement Automation
The measurement and weighing of packages and palletized cargo is an ideal target for automation. This is a particularly labor-intensive and time-consuming manual process that is prone to error.
Read MoreAvoiding Social Media FOMO
Generating speed-of-light word of mouth, social media can trigger demand surges and trip up supply chain strategies for ecommerce retailers. Here are some approaches that work, even if you aren’t ready to livestream shoppable content just yet:
Read MoreChannel Strategy: Definition, Types, and Tips
Businesses can significantly optimize the customer journey for better retention, meet business objectives, and ensure a successful marketing campaign—all by optimizing various marketing channels.
Read MoreWhat Is a Fulfillment Center? Everything You Need to Know
In today’s fast-paced world of e-commerce, smooth and efficient order processing is a critical component for businesses to thrive. Fulfillment centers play an essential role in ensuring that online retailers deliver their products to customers promptly and accurately without putting too much burden on the business owners. But what exactly is a fulfillment center? What […]
Read MoreCraving a Sweet 3PL Partnership
Thanks to its 3PL partnership with Evans Distribution Systems, Bon Bon Bon workers can fill orders more quickly than was possible previously. One reason is Evans’ technology, which offers a step-by-step guide for processing orders.
Read More3PL Provides a Natural Solution
Consumer demand for more natural and environmentally friendly cleaning products fueled the growth of Branch Basics, a direct-to-consumer company. The pandemic caused sales to increase exponentially and the e-tailer also realized a growth in subscription sales. Branch Basics needed an experienced third-party logistics provider to help manage distribution, fulfillment and transportation.
Read MoreSMEs Optimistic for 2023 Holiday Season Despite Supply Chain Challenges
A new DHL survey shows SMEs are optimistic about their 2023 holiday season prospects.
Read MoreShipment Speed and Size: Why It Matters
The 2023 holiday season outlook is a bit more “merry and bright,” according to a recent DHL survey of 800 U.S. small and mid-sized enterprises (SMEs), as respondents anticipate an increase in ecommerce buying activity over last year. Overall, the survey findings suggest that while challenges—such as inflation and supply chain disruptions—persist, a majority of […]
Read MoreHighlighting DC Efficiency
Consumer demand for order fulfillment speed and accuracy highlights the central role distribution centers now play in the supply chain. DCs are stepping up by tapping into sophisticated technology and resources to transform and optimize operations and boost efficiencies.
Read MoreE-Commerce Fulfillment: Steps and Logistics Strategies
In today’s dynamic digital landscape, e-commerce fulfillment is a cornerstone for online retail success. As e-commerce businesses strive to meet customer expectations for swift, accurate, and convenient delivery, effective ecommerce fulfillment services become pivotal. This article unravels the intricacies of ecommerce fulfillment. It offers insights into the evolution of ecommerce order fulfillment, the transformative shift […]
Read More10 Tips for Boosting Ecommerce Efficiency
There are endless opportunities for smart businesses to capitalize on the growing ecommerce trend. Processing high volumes of small parcels, however, requires flawless operations at every step of the supply chain to ensure maximum profitability.
Read MoreSupply Chain Automation and Robotics Converge in the Warehouse
GreyOrange CEO Akash Gupta on how he knew supply chain automation and warehouse robotics were key to the evolution of logistics and why he encourages his leadership team to spend as much time as possible with current and prospective customers.
Read MoreBalancing Exception Management and Customer Satisfaction
For ecommerce fulfillment, exceptional customer service is not just about getting orders right but how you handle exceptions when things go awry. It’s critical to have systems to navigate shipment exception challenges and create customer experiences that foster loyalty.
Read MorePutting 3PLs to the Text
There’s no such thing as TMI when third-party logistics providers work diligently with shippers to help them navigate macro changes and to provide accountability, transparency, efficiency, and streamlined supply chain operations. It’s 3PLs FTW.
Read MoreAutomating Warehouse Operations: Where to Start and How to Maximize Gains
Deploying automation and robotics in the logistics industry has gained in urgency in recent years. No longer just the prerogative of global corporations, automation is also key for small to mid-size companies grappling with ecommerce acceleration and seeking efficiencies in their supply chain operations.
Read MoreClean Shave: Brand Handily Achieves Global Expansion with 3PL Partner
Relying on SEKO’s state-of-the-art warehousing, consistent fulfillment strategy, and seamless global fulfillment platform, MANSCAPED™ met product demand and achieved their expansion goals.
Read MoreManaging the Return Trip
Glance around any airport and it immediately becomes apparent that travel is back in full swing. Chalk it up to pent-up demand but people are either hauling out long-stored luggage or buying new bags and setting off on much delayed journeys. The time was ripe for Samsonite—the world’s best-known and largest travel luggage company—to innovate and enhance their customer experience.
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