Ship Monk

JANUARY 20, 2023

Welcome back to the ultimate guide for enhancing your ecommerce knowledge! In PART 2 of our epic ecommerce terms guide and glossary, we’re here for you—the ecommerce merchants and entrepreneurial warriors of the world—to explain key terms relating to ecommerce, logistics, fulfillment, inventory, and more.

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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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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 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. Achieving agility with a strategy to sell goods in the same region they are produced in, “has never been more important,” Mr. Bailey exclaimed. Supporting Ecommerce and Omnichannel.

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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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Dedola Global Logistics

MARCH 3, 2017

Archives You know how much work goes into running your eCommerce business. Below are ways the right freight forwarder can add value to your eCommerce business and maximize it, too: They help you focus on your core competency Chances are your eCommerce business is a fairly lean operation. Less than container load?

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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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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? At that point, each SKU will be taken to any convenient storage location in the warehouse.

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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 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. A Positive Example. Natural disasters. Tariffs and trade regulations. The growing influence of social media.

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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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Logistics Business Magazine

JANUARY 17, 2022

It’s well recognised that the country is ‘under-warehoused’, especially given the rapid and permanent rise in eCommerce with its demands for increasingly sophisticated distribution facilities. Their business model, perhaps a shift to B2C eCommerce rather than bulk sales to wholesalers or retailers, may have made space redundant.

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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. Normally, logistics deal with events that bring the product towards the customer. Integration with Supply Chain Partners will Improve Your Return Logistics Strategy.

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ShipLilly

JANUARY 20, 2022

For example, there is the reality of shortages and delays which virtually everyone in eCommerce has had to contend with. For most people, eCommerce is the place to go and that places additional burdens on businesses that must meet increasing demand. . Importing goods from China concept. Is your business prepared for this year?

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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

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. Global ecommerce sales are set to reach $5 trillion (£3.8 In the UK, 1.44

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Ship Monk

MAY 19, 2022

Sometimes the vendor can give projections of when the item will be back in stock and shipped, for example: “Won’t Ship Until July,” “Won’t Ship for 10 Business Days,” etc. Not all eCommerce brands offer backordered items for sale. Should You Offer Backorders? Are your supply chains streamlined enough to get backorders out as promised?

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Locus

MARCH 28, 2022

For example, clothing stores enable customers to browse and try out the merchandise in person, get helpful suggestions from the human sales staff, and receive a seamless checkout experience with automated cashiers. Myntra’s Roadster Go (India) store is a fine example of this category.

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Stord

JANUARY 11, 2022

From there, there are more silos focused on how the product is sold and delivered, such as "B2B retail distribution teams," "ecommerce fulfillment teams," "reverse logistics teams" and so on. For example, the price of 42# linerboard has gone up 35% in the last 12 months, over the course of 4-5 price increases.

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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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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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Logistics Business Magazine

MAY 18, 2021

UniCarriers has delivered a state-of-the-art e-commerce storage concept comprising a long-term equipment strategy and an efficient material handling operation in a new very narrow aisle (VNA) warehouse for logistics provider Delamode. UniCarriers was in pole position according to Lauren Collins, Site Manager, Delamode.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JULY 25, 2022

On the one hand, the September event confirms Sitma’s support for in-person trade fairs and, on the other hand its commitment to the Japanese market. It already operates in it through its Tokyo branch, which has been the focal point of its business strategies for over 30 years. Paper E-Wrap: Western style and oriental spirit.

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Logistics Business Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

How can retailers pick the right delivery strategy? In January 2021 ecommerce adoption comprised nearly 38% of total retail sales in the UK and while that figure tailed off a little during the rest of the year, our desire for a personal service continues to increase. Embedded Behaviour. Yet customer expectations have been set.

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WorkWave

JANUARY 15, 2019

Implementing an SEO (search engine optimization) strategy can help your pest control company reach more customers online and get a leg up on the competition. Simply put, a solid SEO strategy puts your company’s website in front of local users who are searching for terms related to your services. What is SEO? A few ways: Backlinks.

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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 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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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Alex Pradhan, Product Strategy Leader John Galt Solutions, told me that “all planning vendors have bold marketing around AI.” 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 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. As an example, the new administration in the U.S. As disruptions become the norm, Supply Chain Planning and Source-to-Pay (S2P) cycles need to be increasingly dynamic and intertwined.

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Logistics Bureau

MAY 8, 2023

10: The Mistake of Underestimating Customer Expectations (Current & Future) The ecommerce conflagration, fuelled further and faster by the COVID-19 pandemic, has forever changed what buyers, whether businesses or consumers, perceive as acceptable delivery performance.

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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. Finally, we’ll explore the potential impact (and coping tactics) for existing forwarders.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

News & Events. |. For example, if one has to search a book of a particular author, one can look into book categories and then click on the sub category fictional or non-fictional. For example, when Home appliances are purchased from leading e-commerce retailers, the price would be approximately 6%-7% less than the market price.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 18, 2022

I started going to events in conferences because I didn’t work anywhere. What was clear is that eCommerce is coming a big thing. The first customer that we signed up with was a large eCommerce company in India. I know eCommerce is a big thing here. Is eCommerce caught on in India to the same extent?

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