- 21. Rethink Fraud Strategy as Average Merchant’s Costs Climb to $15.5 Million
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- ... “While retailers typically have a number of teams engaged in fighting fraud—from IT to order fulfillment—it’s ultimately the CFO’s responsibility to minimize losses and maximize revenue,” noted Monica ...
- 22. Distribution Centers in the Omnichannel World
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- The role of the DC has certainly changed as omnichannel consumers have taken control of the buying experience. eCommerce order fulfillment requires an unprecendented level of coordination between supply ...
- 23. eCommerce Drives DC Change
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- Direct-to-consumer order fulfillment continues to grow, and to support that order profile DCs have had to change their ways of doing things. "Each picking", which used to be a real exception, is getting ...
- 24. Executing Those Holiday Plans
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- If you're in retail and you don't yet have your plans in place for the holiday season, good luck to you! All aspects of supply chains, from purchasing, to order fulfillment, logistics, and transportation ...
- 25. WMS Resurgence
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- WMS systems are undergoing a resurgence and it's no surprise that the ecommerce boom is driving it. A recent study shows that functionality required to support ecommerce order fulfillment is buing built ...
- 26. Inventory Positioning for Omnichannel
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- We've recently looked at the costs associated with servicing omnichannel consumers. In a followup to the original article, Richard Sharpe gets into more detail.The cost of getting inventory into the right ...
- 27. Practical Drone Uses
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- Drones seem to be one of the more hyped technologies around, much of which is due to Amazon's potential use of them for package delivery. Although that's tied up in the FAA approval process, other uses ...
- 28. Is Omnichannel Making You Money?
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- Before a change is made, the most fundamental question a manager should ask is how the bottom line will be affected. As omnichannel consumers have forced all sort of changes to be made to supply chains, ...
- 29. Omnichannel Drives Fulfillment Costs
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- As retailers struggle to meet the challenges of the omnichannel consumer that wants everything now, reality is setting in: this stuff is expensive to execute.Recent research summarized on the Supply Chain ...
- 30. Silos Need to Go
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- As changes to the retail environment continue to occur at a rapid pace, the challenge of order fulfillment isn't getting any easier.According to Bob Ferrari on the Supply Chain Matters site, silos continue ...
- 31. Wearables in the Warehouse
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- As expected, wearable computing is on the way to supply chains. Specifically, DCs and warehouses are experiencing the growth of portable devices that can improve productivity.According to Ben Ames on the ...
- 32. Is Same-Day Delivery Necessary?
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- Same-day delivery is one of the hottest trends in order fulfillment for on-line purchases. The question that needs to be asked, though, is whether customers are really pushing for it.The folks at the PYMNTS ...
- 33. Small Changes Can Drive Big Savings
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- There's a lot happening technology-wise in the supply chain. With all the excitement out there about the most high profile innovations, it might be easy to overlook some basic 'blocking and tackling' changes.According ...
- 34. Omnichannel Impact on Manufacturing
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- The omnichannel consumer is proving to be a challenge across the supply chain. But think about how manufacturers can also be affected. It's no picnic for them to meet this evolving consumer demand.In an ...
- 35. Inside Amazon Fulfillment
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- Anytime you get a chance to get an insider's view of a state-of-the-art difference maker for an industry leader, you should take it. Amazon's order fulfillment engine is the envy of many, and Wired gives ...
- 36. Amazon Ramps Up Robots
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- When you talk about companies that offer efficient order fulfillment, Amazon usually is at the top of the list. One relatively recent development, its purchase of Kiva, a robotics company, has contributed ...
- 37. The Omnichannel WMS
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- The omnichannel trend affects almost every aspect of retail. What's the most critical component? Gary Nemmers thinks it's the warehouse and the WMS that supports it.As retail trade has changed, the back ...
- 38. Ignore That Deadline - It Won't Hur
- (Management)
- ... was actually pretty simple. You see, customers often put a deadline for order fulfillment along with their order. When this deadline passes, a missed shipment or other acknowledgement is placed on the ...
- 39. Omni-Channel Examples
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- You've read a lot recently about omni-channel retailers, or at least I have. What's it really mean to a customer?In a guest article on the Smart Insights page, Katie Traynier provides five examples of ...
- 40. Same Day Delivery Rollout
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- Competition is heating up for the 'last mile' of order fulfillment. A new entrant into the US market by a London-based company is making it very interesting.Read the article by Paul Demery on the Internet ...
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