Ship Monk

JANUARY 11, 2023

The ecommerce industry specifically continues to grow in terms of demand, competition, and customer expectations, calling for increasingly efficient fulfillment solutions and infrastructure to better deliver on your brand promises. ShipMonk presents you with a thorough A-Z glossary of ecommerce terms merchants in the know should know.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JANUARY 27, 2023

Mosca is making its corporate commitment transparent and offering an overview of future goals with its first in-depth sustainability strategy report. The industry’s technology leader also offers an outlook on upcoming changes that go hand in hand with Mosca’s Nonstop responsibility 2027 sustainability strategy.

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Ship Monk

JUNE 30, 2023

There seem to be about a million metrics to watch if you want to run a successful ecommerce business. You can track as many metrics as you want, but not every performance indicator qualifies as a KEY performance indicator (KPI) for your ecommerce business. Which ones are the most important? Well, that depends on your goals.

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Is your ecommerce business one of those that’s been growing steadily in recent years, and seen an absolute boom since the COVID-19 pandemic emerged? So what do you need to do to prevent high demand from being a double-edged sword and potentially stymieing your ability to compete in the lucrative, but fierce ecommerce marketplace?

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Driven by strong organic growth and a strategy of acquisitions to better meet market needs, the RAJA Group has become a key player in the field of business supplies and equipment. The post RAJA shares growth strategy with suppliers appeared first on Logistics Business® Magazine.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 7, 2023

According to a report by the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP), over 40% of eCommerce orders in the US undergo at least one change before reaching the customer. Be it geopolitical events such as the war in Ukraine, shifts in trust towards China, or labor challenges. That’s quite telling. More technology.

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ShipLilly

MARCH 3, 2022

Natural disasters : Events such as Tsunamis and storms disrupt routines and structures. There are five ways in which you can reduce the probability and severity of supply chain disruptions: Use historical and current data, as well as high-quality projections, to predict which locations are likely to be problematic. Wrapping up.

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 26, 2015

Are you up-to-date with the latest events in freight shipping and logistics? 7 of the Best Freight Shipping Events to Attend in 2015. Check out some of the country’s top freight shipping conferences and events for the rest of 2015: Can innovative technology, new business models and eCommerce re-boot the business of logistics?

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Booming Ecommerce is a Megatrend; AMR last mile delivery is one potential solution. The Growth of Ecommerce. Ecommerce and omnichannel was already growing more than twice as fast as traditional retail. Many companies still struggle to achieve segmentation strategies. I was originally scheduled to speak. billion in 2018.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 15, 2021

Some chose to carry on with their digital journeys as they must find better ways as the physical and operational logistics footprint were changing rapidly to adapt to the new customer-first, eCommerce expectations. Now, logistics providers are accelerating the pace to adopt new technologies to serve customer-first and eCommerce expectations.

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Ship Monk

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Will the huge growth in ecommerce sales continue, or will the numbers fall back to “normal” pre-pandemic levels? It’s Gone Global Black Friday/Cyber Monday is now a global event. We also hope you’re paying close attention to the data coming in because this will become your baseline for many BFCM seasons to come.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 26, 2021

Geopolitical events. The rise of ecommerce. Fifty-two percent of respondents are working on individual digital projects but lack an overarching strategy that links all these efforts. In just minutes, BD was able to see and manage the delivery and order-fulfillment challenges created by this unforeseen event, in real-time.

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Morai Logistics

MARCH 10, 2021

Nonetheless, supply chain management has had to respond to this changing landscape, regardless of nature of the changes, as strategies that might have been on the horizon prior to COVID-19 are now imperatives for survival. The Ecommerce Boom. The growth in ecommerce has been astounding. For years it’s been rapidly rising.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The surging Delta virus, devastating floods in China and Germany and cyber attacks on South African ports are amongst the latest in a series of events that continue to send shock waves throughout the system. In light of all of this, I’d posit we can no longer look at the events of the last year as an aberration. The impact?

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GoShip Blog

MARCH 7, 2023

It helps you identify the inefficient aspects of your business processes and decipher the best strategies to refine them. These reviews help you assess possible areas of improvement to keep your business thriving in the highly saturated eCommerce industry. Attending events also helps you connect with other small business owners.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 18, 2022

Visibility is important but once you get that data, all of a sudden, you go, “All this data about visibility is important.”. You start having all the data, bringing AI and some other tools against it. I started going to events in conferences because I didn’t work anywhere. I know eCommerce is a big thing here.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Alex Pradhan, Product Strategy Leader John Galt Solutions, told me that “all planning vendors have bold marketing around AI.” Planning applications don’t work well if the master data they rely on is not accurate; this is known as the “garbage in, garbage out” problem. Artificial intelligence is beginning to be used to update the data.

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CH Robinson Logistics

APRIL 2, 2021

This year’s produce season is felt after a series of events impacting transportation. What’s more, is that these are likely not the last of the events to disrupt transportation. Due to the pandemic, we have seen a shift in consumer buying habits, particularly when it comes to shopping ecommerce.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 12, 2022

Data from the U.S. Distribution is no longer a backwater of the economy, due in large part to the upheavals brought on by ecommerce. Following their fourth quarter results, top executives talked about their supply chain and omnichannel strategy at a high level. Commerce Department shows that online retail sales jumped 32.4%

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Stord

JANUARY 11, 2022

." - Sarang Damle, Group Product Manager, Orders & Inventory Data and Service Capability Silos "Supply chains are too often built in and operate from silos. Ensuring there is faith in the data being put into these systems and consistent processes across the organization is increasingly difficult for most companies.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Normally, logistics deal with events that bring the product towards the customer. The supply chain of reverse logistics poses some serious challenges, especially with the recent explosion of ecommerce. Integration with Supply Chain Partners will Improve Your Return Logistics Strategy.

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Stord

MAY 3, 2018

For many businesses, their supply chain grew organically along with the growth of the business and isn't built to scale, especially for ecommerce. Stagnant, stiff supply chains make adapting to real-world events like changing customer demand caused by the e-commerce boom or COVID-19 difficult.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Let us examine these: Implementing a ‘China Plus One’ strategy: Part of the resiliency comes from having alternate sources of supply. Madhav Durbha is the Group Vice President of Industry Strategy at LLamasoft, a Coupa Company, where his team helps customers and prospects solve various supply chain challenges. He received his Ph.D.

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3PL Insights

JUNE 15, 2020

Looking forward, here are a few supply chain trends that will likely emerge from recent events. When the government forced many retailers to shut down, people turned to ecommerce. 3PLs will help them design a fulfillment strategy. Visible, Real-time Data is King. Data is our guiding light. Nearshoring.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Inventory management is a crucial aspect of supply chain management, and effective strategies can help businesses reduce costs, improve customer service, and increase profits. But what does a great inventory management strategy look like? Amazon did not invent the random storage approach. Book your free consultation.

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Ship Monk

MAY 19, 2022

Not all eCommerce brands offer backordered items for sale. As in: Do you have data to support that customers will buy and not return backordered items? In terms of eCommerce brands, with so many layers to supply chain networks, seasonal shifts, and fluxes in customer behavior, backorders can happen for an array of reasons.

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Locus

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Delivery exceptions are circumstances where packages are temporarily delayed in transit due to unexpected events. Unanticipated events. Unforeseen events like wildfire, hurricanes, winter storms, cyclones, floods etc makes the routes impassable and keeps drivers off the road. What is a delivery exception? Higher Overheads.

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Logistics Business Magazine

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Once companies have integrated a comprehensive mobility strategy within their operations, we find them increasingly turning to ‘what’s next’; solutions that will give them an even greater advantage against competitors and help them stay ahead of the field. Performance data and analysis. applied to powering and controlling.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JUNE 30, 2022

Keeping up with a complex, multi-layered, global industry is harder than most people think, so we decided to share a list of industry experts who share perspectives, news, trends and timely data on a regular basis on Twitter and Linkedin. Craig Fuller. Twitter: @FreightAlley. Cassandra Gaines. Twitter: @MadGainesLive. Chris Rogers.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 19, 2016

The more data they have, the more they will be able to know which steps to take so that all the information gathered can be turned into information that is meaningful and can be used for decision making. Changing Retail Supply Chains with Ecommerce. When an event occurs, the most important thing is to be able to bounce back.

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Logistics Business Magazine

AUGUST 8, 2022

Big events cause seismic ripples through this system and the recent re-introduction of paid returns is no exception. Data can be used to optimise operations across the whole returns journey and is the catalyst for more efficient returns. A tailored returns strategy can help retailers overcome current issues in the industry.

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Freightos

OCTOBER 26, 2020

So three months after an executive meeting on June 23rd , an updated strategy was released, tracking a radical shift into a slimmer Maersk, focused on providing end-to-end logistics services. The Post-2016 Strategy: End-to-end Shipping. A Maersk ocean liner generates some 2 GB a of data per day. The Primary Maersk Plays.

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 24, 2022

In this, our second quarterly roundup, we’re revealing the following supply chain issues and events making news in industry media and beyond: The growing adoption of digital twin technology in the supply chain. How retailers are reevaluating post-pandemic inventory strategies. SMEs vs. the big boys in the battle for US warehouse space.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 26, 2017

Over the last year, huge strides were made in machine-to-machine connectivity, as foreseen by our predictions, ranging from the greater use of automated identification and data capture (AIDC) and stronger resolve for more omnichannel logistics solutions. In other words, someone had to scan and enter information physically.

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Bringg

DECEMBER 27, 2017

With ecommerce sales reaching $23 trillion in annual sales worldwide, customers are relying on better and faster deliveries for all sort of goods and services. From the millions of data points and variables in any supply chain should come the knowledge required to determine business strategies and to support decision-making processes.

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Logistics Business Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2018

Johannes Panzer (pictured), Head of Product Strategy for Ecommerce, Descartes Systems, says it might be and that businesses need to be fully agile… On July 16th the hotly anticipated Amazon Prime Day kicked off, running for a total of 36 hours it was the longest Prime Day sale to date. Gearing up for Prime Day.

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Locus

MARCH 28, 2022

They allow brands to leverage hi-standard in-store services and set up appealing events. The importance of omnichannel retail strategies and optimizing last-mile fulfilment. Omnichannel strategies enhance the accessibility of shops to consumers, boost sales rates, across multiple touchpoints. Conclusion.

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