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4 Critical Steps for Optimizing Omnichannel Order Fulfillment in 2021

Retalon

Maintaining margins within business constraints while efficiently providing order fulfillment to customers is a tall order, especially considering each customer purchase requires a real-time fulfillment decision within a shifting context of inventory, demand, returns, delivery times, and shipping costs. That’s the billion dollar question.

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How Aussie label Form & Fold is building a better swimwear brand

Inside Retail

IR : The official launch was in 2017. We really want to extend our size range, but it’s such an undertaking, and you’re left with so much dead stock because it’s really hard to forecast. IR : In addition to selling online, you’re also stocked by Net-A-Porter, Matches Fashion, Brown and Harrods.

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The Future of Retail in the New Era of Risk

Retail Prophet

If a single image has come to define the failure of global supply chains amid the Covid-19 crisis it’s that of the Ever Given – one of the world’s largest container ships – seized in a diagonal death grip inside the Suez Canal, heavy with more than twenty thousand units of cargo aboard. Slave laborers load cotton onto waiting ships.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 296 – Guardian Baseball Co-Founder Matt Kubancik

Retail Geek

Started selling fashion and store stock Closeouts Retail Arbitrage early days of eBay and then when I was 18 years old. Excellent capability of functioning in the warehouse so providing quality control integrating with the shipping carriers like ship work shipstation. Matt: [4:59] Yeah it was a it was a lot of fun so.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 257 – Cookies, IDFA, and Commerce Deep Dive

Retail Geek

Third party cookies have been going away for a couple of years I think this started in 2017 that Safari started turning off some third-party cookies and. Scot: [51:27] Right so we got some good stock picks from Jason straight away here. Jason: [51:33] Yeah yeah side side out yeah I’m the world’s worst stock picker.