Ship Monk

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

eCommerce Peak Season Problems and Solutions. The surge in eCommerce purchases made during this period has the potential to lead to great profits for your brand and great experiences for your customers. But that’s only if companies address eCommerce peak season problems with skill and swiftness. 1) Supplier Issues.

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Ship Monk

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

It may sound simple enough, but deciding what to sell is one of the biggest — and most overlooked — steps in launching an eCommerce store. What Are Niches in eCommerce? In eCommerce terms, niches are product categories that are tied together by a common theme. How to Choose Your eCommerce Niche. Keep reading!

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Ship Monk

AUGUST 30, 2023

would put you in the middle 60% of ecommerce stores according to this benchmark. Today we’re going to look at how to calculate ecommerce conversion rates, identify some things that may be turning customers away, and what you can do to improve conversion rates. What is an Ecommerce Conversion Rate? Anywhere between 0.2%

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Ship Monk

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Supply chains are becoming more intricate, ecommerce orders are on the rise, and speedy shipping has never been more important. If you’ve been wanting to learn more about how automation positively impacts 3PLs, and the ecommerce businesses they’re committed to, this is the blog for you. But what kind of automation ?

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EazyStock

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Intro to 2020 Supply Chain Management Trends. Throughout the last decade, the main trends were digitization and globalization. 2020 supply chain management trends will further these shifts. 2020 supply chain management trends will further these shifts. Greening” the Supply Chain.

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Bringg

AUGUST 5, 2020

This post looks at how click & collect works, why demand for it is trending now, and what retailers can do to ensure click & collect experiences that are also good for their business. While interest in click & collect is not new, 2020 saw a massive spike in demand and turned it into one of the hottest retail trends.

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Ship Monk

APRIL 4, 2023

It’s been a while since you placed your ecommerce order so it seems like it may be time to face facts. Lost packages are a worst-case scenario for all ecommerce business owners, but that doesn’t mean they’re completely unavoidable. Of course (see what we did there?) You’re watching, waiting, anticipating. Your package is lost.

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Logistics Business Magazine

APRIL 22, 2022

We have the latest market insights, trends and best practice examples in digitalisation, e-commerce and green deals. You can touch base with sustainability trends in logistics real estate, be part of the digital air cargo revolution and feel the resilience of global supply chains in the actual shaky ocean freight markets.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 8, 2019

3 Supply Chain Trends to Track in 2019. However, this year hasn’t quite closed out yet (at the time of writing), so in the true spirit of just-in-time delivery, here’s a quick appraisal of three current trends that I believe will come on stronger, and perhaps become some of the most important to supply chain operators in 2019.

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Call it a cop-out if you like, but predicting which logistics and supply chain trends will make a difference to businesses in any given year has become notoriously difficult, given the speed at which technology in particular, can suddenly disrupt the way things are done. 2018 Update: How Did the Trends Progress?

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 20, 2022

China, for example, only produces 14% of their total units, only 3% of those units end up being exported to the United States and 2% to EMEA. Much of the world’s fabric is produced in Asia, for example. Supporting Ecommerce and Omnichannel. COVID accelerated a long-term trend toward consumers buying more goods online.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 3, 2018

It’s that time when idle chatter at the office Christmas lunch turns to debating what next year will bring, especially among logistics and supply chain professionals, for whom it seems every New Year brings new challenges, trends, and disruptive innovations. The 7 Trends for Supply Chain Pros to Watch in 2018.

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Ship Monk

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Most ecommerce business owners have a few key performance indicators (KPIs) that they track daily, if not hourly. But there are a host of other metrics and KPIs on the operations side that have just as great an impact on the profitability of your ecommerce business. It tells you at a glance how you’re doing at meeting that goal.

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Logistics Bureau

MAY 3, 2021

Few retailers can hope to grow, or even survive today, without the ability to sell through ecommerce channels. In an article about online retail that I published at the end of 2019, I highlighted Target’s click-and-mortar retail model, which, even then, was positioning the company as an ecommerce trend-setter.

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Logistics Business Magazine

DECEMBER 21, 2022

According to recent figures from eMarketer, US Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) ecommerce sales have more than tripled over the past six years. Unfortunately though, warehouse facilities in general are struggling to keep up with this trend. It is not possible to pick a single item with a forklift truck, for example. A route map forward.

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 4, 2021

This is 27% above the Q1-Q3 2020 total and puts the UK industrial & logistics sector on course for a record year, as the unprecedented levels of occupier demand looks set to ensure that the industry will beat the 51.6m Food manufacturing and indoor farming are examples of other occupiers taking space recently.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 21, 2020

As online retail has become such a massive catalyst for changes in supply chain and logistics thinking and practice over the last few years, I thought it worth greeting the New Year with a brief look at the ecommerce sector and how some of its players have performed in 2019. Who Else is Doing Well in Online Retail?

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 22, 2016

At the onset of 2016, we identified key trends to watch for in manufacturing, and as the year draws to a close, it’s time for an evaluation of our predictions to discover the state of manufacturing. The State of Manufacturing: eCommerce, Analytics, and Robotics. For example, big data is all the data compiled and analyzed.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 30, 2023

But, of course, with so many cases in such a vastly populated nation, the risk of a new variant emerging to start the whole cycle over again cannot be underestimated. During the zero-COVID years, it only needed one or two cases to shut down an entire plant, leaving customers altogether in the lurch. That will no longer be an issue.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

In the course of updating our annual research on the supply chain planning market , I talked to executives across the industry. Lead times, for example, are a critical form of master data for planning purposes. The processing units in an oil refinery, for example, operate at high temperature and high pressure.

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 25, 2022

Supply challenges arising from the war will hit many industries, with electronics being a prime example, since Russia and Ukraine are both sources of materials such as palladium and neon , vital for the manufacture of semiconductors. The nature of ecommerce, too, means companies make greater use of available warehouse capacity.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

For example, the reverse logistics process includes the management and the sale of surplus as well as returned equipment and machines from the hardware leasing business. The supply chain of reverse logistics poses some serious challenges, especially with the recent explosion of ecommerce. Imagine this scenario.

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Logistics Business Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

The processes are analogous to, but with significant differences from, consumer eCommerce. Direct-to-Patient promises to be more convenient, to reduce waste, to encourage better course adherence by patients, as well as helping to control the problem of parallel imports.

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Logistics Bureau

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

And, of course, I will also share how knowing your cost-to-serve will help you to solve those all-too-familiar performance gremlins. Of course, it’s always possible to factor estimates of those costs into your product or service pricing, but then you can find yourself overpricing them. Are Your Profit Margins Declining?

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ShipLilly

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

This is a trend that is undesirable since excess inventory tends to have a detrimental effect on cash flow. When the pandemic led to social distancing and lockdowns, the age of eCommerce received a great boost. Of course, this is only possible with goods with a long expiry date.

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Logistics Bureau

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

The key difference between the two can perhaps be explained in the following example: A 3PL provider working with a paint manufacturer may package and store products as well as transport them to retailers and/or customers. 3) Ecommerce and Multi-Channel Retail. The best example of a 4PL model is Amazon.com. percent over FY19.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JUNE 23, 2022

Trend graphs are available and operators can check for anomalies and generate reports. Of course, implementing DIAView was very straightforward since the Delta automation equipment already in operation at the facility was completely compatible. VFD-E series Delta motor drives come into play for sealing tasks.

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Logistics Business Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

E-commerce sales were harder hit during the holidays with the IMRG Online Retail Index showing sales fell by 12% in December, marking 2022 as the year that bucked a trend of growth for online retail. However, not all retailers were hit equally.

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Logistics Bureau

JUNE 21, 2020

Is it possible to reverse the offshoring trend to protect Australia from similar situations in the future, and if so, at what cost? Before attempting to answer such questions, it’s helpful to look in a little detail at the drivers behind the offshore manufacturing trend. Can a Re-shoring Drive Reverse the Outsourcing Trend?

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Logistics Business Magazine

JUNE 25, 2021

In only a few years, for example, veganism has moved from being an eccentricity to a mainstream market that few in the industry can afford to ignore. These trends are not short-term tactical problems to be solved but sea changes that affect the food chain at all levels.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MARCH 10, 2021

Of course, it hasn’t been smooth sailing for the online retailer either. Buy Online Pick-Up In-Store (BOPIS) initiatives, for example, proved to be a game-changer, with two-thirds of retailers (67%) who invested in this capability seeing an increased sales volume.

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Logistics Business Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2022

They could of course do both – cutting back on eating out, for example, reducing hospitality trade demand, but investing more in entertaining at home and thus buying more groceries. On the demand side, the ‘cost of living crisis’ is becoming a reality.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 1, 2018

Of course, it can also open new opportunities for tomorrow. The following are examples. A key example is the expert system. Ecommerce recommendation engines do this. They find the patterns in how visitors navigate on the ecommerce site. Image processing is an example. Hard to plan for demand.

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 10, 2023

For example, you can ask your provider to assess your current processes, identify areas for improvement, and implement streamlined solutions to enhance overall efficiency. For example, does your company already own or lease warehouses? A 3PL partner can help you to remedy process fragmentation and its associated weaknesses.

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247 Customs Broker

MARCH 6, 2018

As forecast, the Post – eCommerce – Parcel (PeP) division contributed EUR 1.5 The DHL Express division and the German and international Parcel and eCommerce businesses continued to see particularly dynamic growth. For example, the company expanded its parcel infrastructure both in Germany and internationally.

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