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Choosing a Distribution Model: Drop Shipping vs Traditional Inventory

Retail Bound

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. Traditional Inventory: Beyond the Basics Operational Dynamics: Retailers purchase products in bulk, store them, and then ship them out as orders come in.

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How Retailers like Rothy’s and Shinola are ‘De-Risking’ Product Design with Consumer Data

Retail TouchPoints

Technological innovations have optimized and enhanced almost all areas of the retail organization, from marketing to fulfillment, but the process of bringing products to market has been markedly slower to advance. But these legacy processes don’t work as well as they once did, and COVID made that fact hard to ignore. “A

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Top 10 Technology Investments Online Merchants In US Are Banking On For 2022

Retail Minded

A new study revealed: Social media marketing (32%), e-commerce software (31%), email marketing (29%), retail operations (26%) and online payments (24%) score highly. Investment behind the ‘buy button’ into retail operations (26%) and online payments (24%) also score highly on merchants’ wish lists.

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High growth e-cigarette brand opts for Brightpearl to light up multichannel expansion

365 Retail

The merchant sells its array of vaping products direct-to-consumer as well as wholesale via its Shopify-powered website, and from numerous physical retail stores based in Dublin and beyond. Ecirette turned to Brightpearl to streamline and automate its manual processes and support its big picture aims for multichannel expansion.

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Everything Retailers Need to Know About ERP Implementation

Independent Retailer

When a small-to-medium sized merchant experiences rapid growth, its profit margins might go up, but its back office operations often go into meltdown. With this data, has implementing an ERP become a time-consuming, frustrating mistake that causes more problems than it solves? by Mark Hook. It is not quite that simple.

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2022 Trends for Social Commerce

Independent Retailer

According to Instagram, 60 percent of consumers discover new products on their platform , and users say that when they were inspired by something they saw, they would take steps to find and buy it straight away. Brightpearl is the number one Retail Operating System (ROS) for the retail and wholesale sector.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 289 – ShipBob Co-Founder and CEO Dhruv Saxena

Retail Geek

ShipBob is a tech-enabled third-party logistics provider (3PL) that fulfills e-commerce orders for direct-to-consumer brands. Told us very clearly that we don’t really care about great software what we care about is a great product or a great service which helps us in packaging and shipping so that influence the decision-making right.