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The History of eCommerce: From the 1960s to the 2020s

Ship Monk

Back in the day, businesses relied on primitive computer networks to conduct electronic transactions through EDI (Electronic Data Interchange), enabling them to share invoices, order forms, and shipping confirmations. In 1994, Netscape developed SSL (Secure Socket Layers), a protocol that increased the safety of internet data transmissions.

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How the pandemic has changed the supply chain

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

A year before, in 2014, a Harvard Business Review article pointed out that supply chains were becoming increasingly global and complex and consequently more at risk than before. Resiliency is defined as the ability of a supply chain to cope with unforeseen events with minimal disruption and quickly recover after it occurs.

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Strong Holiday On-Time Delivery Performance for USPS, UPS, and FedEx

247 Customs Broker

That has been made very clear in data issued this month by ShipMatrix , a subsidiary of Pittsburgh-based SJ Consulting. That was a hard lesson learned for many during the “Polar Vortex” of 2014 when crippling winter weather prevented the timely delivery of orders that were placed only a few days before Christmas.

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Holiday season on-time delivery performance is shining so far

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That has been made very clear in data issued this month by ShipMatrix , a subsidiary of Pittsburgh-based SJ Consulting. That was a hard lesson learned for many during the “Polar Vortex” of 2014, when crippling winter weather prevented timely delivery of orders that were placed only a few days before Christmas. About the Author.

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Supplier Quality Management: What it is, 5 Key Metrics to Know & a 4 Step Supplier Evaluation Process

GlobalTranz

The US quality guru Joseph Moses Juran (born 1904 in Romania ) divides the supplier quality assurance process into nine steps: definition of the product’s quality requirements, evaluation of alternative suppliers. The definition of this metric is similar to the way it sounds. Cost of quality.

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2018 Supply Chain Top 25 Rankings released by Gartner

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Guy Courtin, vice president of industry & solution strategy for Infor Retail, was among those executives attending the Gartner event. Notes: Gartner Opinion and Peer Opinion: Based on each panel’s forced-rank ordering against the definition of “DDVN orchestrator.” 2017 data used where available.

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Supply Chain Management:E-retailers exploring same day delivery

Infosys Supply Chain Management

Cloud & Big Data. News & Events. |. Same day delivery would definitely bring in customer delight and further motivate them to go for online shopping. Posted by Sudhanshu Raj on February 3, 2014 4:23 AM | Permalink. Posted by: Aditya Pujari | February 3, 2014 1:11 PM. April 2014. March 2014.