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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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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.