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ShipMonk Summits Enhance 3PL Mindsets

Ship Monk

Accordingly, we actively update our systems to stay ahead of the evolving needs of eCommerce and help our clients succeed. During these summits, employees from different areas of the ShipMonk operation have the opportunity to learn from heads of departments, ask questions, and refine their eCommerce mindsets.

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Finding Your Ecommerce Brand Niche

Ship Monk

You decide to launch an ecommerce store to sell this idea because it’s the greatest idea ever and can’t possibly fail. Part of the process is doing your homework and identifying your ecommerce niche. What is an ecommerce niche? What is an Ecommerce Niche? Let’s assume you’re an entrepreneur with a great idea.

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Peet’s Coffee and the Roasted Bean Supply Chain

Logistics Viewpoints

Finally, Peet’s also has an ecommerce channel – Amazon, Costco.com, and direct to consumer. When Mr. Lauterbach joined the company in 2010, 70% of sales came from the coffee house channel rather than the grocery and ecommerce channels. But we were not ready for the surge in ecommerce. Now that is inverted.”.

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Omnichannel Retail and the Cost to Serve Online Customers

Logistics Bureau

Ecommerce competition was already fierce before the pandemic curbed consumer enthusiasm for in-store shopping, and now, it is even more so. The tips in this article will help you know how to identify the customers, products, and processes that might be inflating your cost to serve (CTS) unnecessarily. Why Modeling Makes Sense.

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What is Supply Chain Resilience?

GlobalTranz

Wholesale food distributors and producers had to figure out how to sell directly to the public. Broadline food distributors learned how to price restaurant-quality meat in family-sized packages and coordinate curbside pickup. Ecommerce order volumes surged for household staples and quarantine-related items. Overall, U.S.

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This Week in Logistics News (December 4-8, 2017)

Talking Logistics

My exercise plans for the weekend are set. The article goes on to say, “The backlog reflects the degree to which Wal-Mart, United Parcel Service and other companies struggled to handle peak ecommerce volumes despite months of preparation and major investments to expand and upgrade distribution facilities.”. Rake today, shovel tomorrow.

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Key Factors to Consider When Planning and Designing Warehouses

Logistics Bureau

As more and more companies—especially those engaged in ecommerce—are discovering, it can often be better to manage reverse logistics as a discrete process than to try to integrate returns handling with the normal forward flow. High availability of accurate throughput data will be of great aid to the outcome of the design or layout exercise.