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Choosing a Distribution Model: Drop Shipping vs Traditional Inventory

Retail Bound

One of the topics that consistently comes up in the retail world is the logistics of shipping. From the manufacturers to the distributors, to your retail store – there are many factors and unexpected costs to consider during the shipping process that can be often overlooked. Choose a model that can scale with your growth trajectory.

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Automation: The Driving Force Behind Warehouse Management Growth

Retail TouchPoints

A growing retail and ecommerce business can turn an efficient process into a multi-step nightmare with inaccurate purchasing, order fulfillment and returns processes. It all depends on multiple factors like the size of the warehouse, the quantity of inventory and the number of orders fulfilled. Sophisticated Automation.

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Amazon’s holiday-quarter forecast disappoints as labour, supply issues mount

Inside Retail

Andy Jassy, who took the helm of Amazon as CEO in July, said in a statement the company would incur several billion dollars of extra expenses in its consumer business to deal with higher shipping costs, increased wages and labour shortages. Workers, not physical space, became its primary capacity constraint in the third quarter, he said.

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The direct-to-consumer shift: Here’s how brands can capitalise on the boom

Inside Retail

The direct-to-consumer model tends to be much leaner, with limited stock held in the e-commerce fulfilment centres where customer orders are picked and packed. The store retail model results in large amounts of stock being held throughout the supply chain, for example in the warehouses and the shelves of the retailer’s stores.

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How FMCG brands can capitalise on DTC boom

Inside Retail

The direct-to-consumer model tends to be much leaner, with limited stock held in the e-commerce fulfilment centres where customer orders are picked and packed. The store retail model results in large amounts of stock being held throughout the supply chain, for example in the warehouses and the shelves of the retailer’s stores.

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The Crucial Piece of the ‘Mixed Used’ Mall that No One’s Talking About: Logistics and Fulfillment

Retail TouchPoints

The idea of transforming malls into “mixed use” gathering spots has become popular, but an aerial view of these complexes provides an interesting perspective on another potential evolutionary path for the mall: as a fulfillment center. “ All those back-of-house loading docks are just perfect for fulfillment.

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6 Reasons Walmart’s eCommerce Strategy is Winning

Indigo 9 Digital

For many years analysts were saying stores are dead but if Walmart didn’t start testing grocery pickup back in 2013 its grocery pickup services would not have performed so well when put to the test during the pandemic. Walmart had this foresight and a decade ago in 2013 it started testing a grocery pickup service.