Small Biz Trends

MAY 19, 2022

Are you too busy to take care of order fulfillment in your eCommerce business? Do you lack the infrastructure to efficiently serve your customers nationally and globally? If your answer to these questions is YES, then partnering with a third-party fulfillment provider can be the right strategy to go ahead.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 13, 2023

For retailers selling products online across multiple markets on- and off-shore, selecting shipping partners can be a significant pain point in time, cost and convenience. We save our customers time, trouble and money on all their shipping needs,” explains Nicholas Woodward, country manager for Pack & Send Australia. “We

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

So let’s have a look at ‘last mile fulfilment’ and two areas in particular that are delivering significant efficiencies and cost reductions for businesses. Product Information Management (PIM) and automation “deliver immense value for businesses that need to scale and support efficient growth across numerous markets”.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 15, 2022

For example, during the pandemic’s peak, Build-A-Bear Workshop successfully evolved its brick-and-mortar business to offer more flexible and efficient fulfillment services so it could capitalize on surging ecommerce demand. Creating Joy Amid Uncertainty.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

In internal fulfillment, the business handles the complete process of storing, packing and shipping. The company must have a warehouse to keep its inventory, and a logistics team to manage the goods for storing, ordering and shipping directly to stores/distributors or customers.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 7, 2024

This experience led to a role in sales and account management, helping retailers solve fulfilment challenges, sparking my passion for the industry. It’s been a gamechanger, not only for our end-mile and fulfilment but also for my approach to inventory management, customer support and data.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 6, 2023

With the bustling holiday shopping season nearing, many brands have spent the last several months assessing their operational strengths and weaknesses, particularly in logistics and fulfillment. This can include critical insights gathered from metrics such as pick accuracy, on-time shipping, on-time in-full and delivery success rates.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

With Salesforce’s 2023 holiday predictions forecasting that BOPIS (buying items online for in-store or curbside pickup) will influence $28 billion in incremental sales during the holiday season, retailers seeking to capitalize on this revenue opportunity need to ensure their store operations and inventory management practices are up to par.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 12, 2021

Above all, they must keep the customer experience top of mind, and Amazon sets the benchmark for customer experience and expectations when it comes to online shopping. Another factor driving the adoption of WMS in ecommerce is the growing trend for retailers to offload online order fulfillment to distribution partners.

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Retail Focus

AUGUST 8, 2023

Order Fulfillment When outsourcing, retailers can benefit from streamlined inventory management, order processing, and shipping. Third-party logistic experts possess the infrastructure, expertise, and technology required to handle outsourcing order fulfillment with precision.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 27, 2021

The pandemic’s disruption of the retail industry has driven a lot of change over the past 15 months, from an increase in online shopping to the rapid adoption of omnichannel fulfillment options. After all, they will be the ones to bring to life in-store pickup, ship-from-store fulfillment, the endless aisle and other omnichannel experiences.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 17, 2022

Unified commerce is the new holy grail for retailers, promising previously unheard-of levels of customer insights and control over all elements of sales and inventory management. But what does that mean in practice for customers? Here are four of the most common uses of unified commerce in customer journeys.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 26, 2021

You will need their talents when it comes to: Design Customer experience (CX) Search engine optimization (SEO) Web maintenance Customer engagement Product returns. While you are no doubt familiar with brand marketing, online customer acquisition is a whole different animal. Fulfillment and Returns.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Overselling results in cancelled orders and an undesirable customer experience. In this peak period, it will be critical for retailers to focus both on operational efficiency but also customer experience. More importantly still, is that those same tools let staff provide a great order management process to the customers.

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I Vend

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Customer experience is the retail ‘holy grail’ – the all-important goal that retailers must achieve to be successful. I’ve written about customer experience on numerous occasions this year – citing it as one of the top four priorities for retailers in 2021. I’m not telling you anything new there.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 6, 2021

Jon Elder gives credit where it’s due: selling on the Amazon Marketplace and using Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) services offer brands enormous opportunities. (Of The combination of access to many millions of potential customers and the warehousing, fulfillment and returns services bundled under FBA is a powerful one, according to Elder.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The key is investing in real-time inventory. This enables a robust omnichannel retail strategy that delivers a unified, seamless and consistent customer experience across all physical stores, websites and mobile apps. Optimized supply chain management to avoid stockouts and overstocking. Embrace the Need for Speed .

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 26, 2023

Get ready, get excited, retailers and customers alike, the 2D barcode, a compact square label with splotches and spaces that encode up to 350X more data than a traditional UPC (4,000 characters) will have a significant impact on managing the business and delivering better customer experiences. Who doesn’t want that?

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 21, 2022

So how can retailers be proactive in their inventory placement to avoid compromising top-line growth and customer satisfaction? Not only will this help ensure margins are managed, but it will ensure customer expectations are met. About the author: Damien McLaughlin is a director at Oracle Retail.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 3, 2024

Then there’s the hassle of printing a return label, carefully repackaging the dress and taking time out of her busy day to drop it off at a shipping location. So why do customers delay returns? Embracing trends like bracketing, where customers buy multiple options for size or color and return the rest, opens up new opportunities.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 7, 2024

Consistency in branding, customer experience, and product offering ensures a cohesive and positive experience for our customer across all locations,” Santic said. It plans to expand click-and-collect to drive foot traffic in-store, whilst maintaining online shopping convenience, and reward customer loyalty. “We

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Inside Retail

MARCH 2, 2023

Retailers are constantly on the lookout for cutting edge technologies that improve efficiencies and productivity, streamline operations and improve the customer experience. Perera added that, in some situations, AMRs can be ‘smarter’ than humans because they have access to more data, so they can provide a superior experience.

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Retalon

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Why should retailers care about their Order Fulfillment Process? Order fulfillment may seem like a fairly straightforward process and according to the generic “high-level” definition, it is. In today’s market, putting the right fulfillment system in place gets you a competitive edge. What is order fulfillment?

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Rain Pros

AUGUST 18, 2023

Nothing brings greater customer satisfaction than the assurance of quick and reliable deliveries after clicking the buy now button when shopping online. Efficient logistics ensures accurate and timely order fulfillment of customer orders. However, it features high initial costs for warehouse space, staff, and operations.

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Rain Pros

AUGUST 18, 2023

Nothing brings greater customer satisfaction than the assurance of quick and reliable deliveries after clicking the buy now button when shopping online. Efficient logistics ensures accurate and timely order fulfillment of customer orders. However, it features high initial costs for warehouse space, staff, and operations.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 24, 2023

They covered how brands can provide elevated and curated customer experiences and how clear differentiation, and even re-invention, can be critical to meeting consumer demand and providing a sustainable future for retailers. A fundamental rethink Fulfilment was challenging for many in 2022.

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Retalon

APRIL 21, 2021

Omnichannel order fulfillment that drives customer experience (and boosts profits). Although the trend towards omnichannel fulfillment is not new, the pandemic changed many retailers’ business models almost overnight, and these changes are not going away. What is omnichannel order fulfillment in retail?

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Wiser

DECEMBER 15, 2020

As an eCommerce or direct-to-consumer business , you don’t have the luxury of working with retail partners that can help with shipping, warehousing, distribution, and other key supply chain tasks. Some 3PL providers simply cover partial supply chain services, offering only warehousing, distribution, shipping and receiving, etc.

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Retail Bound

JANUARY 25, 2023

Third-party logistics companies — that specialize in ecommerce order fulfillment — are a relatively new market in the massive $10 Trillion Logistics Industry ( source ). Historically, 3PLs were nothing more than a “middle man” — boxes would be shipped from Point A to Point B in order for retailers to keep store shelves stocked.

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Star Miconics

APRIL 12, 2024

Explore Star Labeling Solutions Understanding Omnichannel Commerce Omnichannel retail expands traditional in-store or digital shopping methods by connecting different points of engagement to create cohesive customer experiences. Online Orders: Labels should list order numbers, customer information, and package handling instructions.

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Retail Geek

DECEMBER 7, 2020

ShipBob is a third party logistics provider that offers e-commerce fulfillment for thousands of brands. They are able to see the carrier shipping performance for all those clients and provide aggregate data that gives us insight into holiday shipping performance, also known as #shipageddon.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The Retail TouchPoints 2022 Retail Strategy & Planning (#RSP22) webinar series, now available on-demand, offered a wealth of tips and best practices across critical areas including pricing, location-based technology, inventory management and marketplaces.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 25, 2022

It’s energizing to think about customer experience transformation and what that could possibly mean for a business. In the retail industry, many organizations are at a pivotal moment of forging a path forward to define the future-state customer experience where the physical and digital converge. We all like to think big.

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Retail Minded

JULY 28, 2022

This involves providing transportation and shipping options and meeting with them wherever they are. These operations range from securing inventory flow to ensuring an on-time shipping process. Different stages of retail logistics involve material receiving, warehouse management, order fulfillment, and product shipping.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 16, 2021

“Having a retail presence across multiple touch points and navigating a quickly evolving landscape of selling channels is a massive undertaking that creates significant logistical challenges for retailers, particularly for order and inventory management ,” said Campbell. “To

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 29, 2020

Ready to grow even further, the company launched a digital transformation to swap out its legacy systems, advance customer knowledge through data and provide a truly omnichannel customer experience. We put the customers at the center and really get to know them. It’s really a holistic approach,” she said. “We

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Leite’s experience on the show not only amplified her “people-first” leadership philosophy, but also prompted a number of investments to address problems she uncovered while undercover, including: $500,000 on product education for store associates, known as Health Enthusiasts; $1.5 million on inventory management solutions; $1.2

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