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Peet’s Coffee and the Roasted Bean Supply Chain

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Finally, Peet’s also has an ecommerce channel – Amazon, Costco.com, and direct to consumer. When Mr. Lauterbach joined the company in 2010, 70% of sales came from the coffee house channel rather than the grocery and ecommerce channels. But we were not ready for the surge in ecommerce. Now that is inverted.”.

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Key Factors to Consider When Planning and Designing Warehouses

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Outbound Logistics: Keeping Customers Satisfied. As more and more companies—especially those engaged in ecommerce—are discovering, it can often be better to manage reverse logistics as a discrete process than to try to integrate returns handling with the normal forward flow. Will your warehouse have to handle returns?

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8 Reasons Why Your Business’ Success Depends Upon Your Supply Chain

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Along with the design of supply chain strategy, the design of the supply chain itself, especially the part dealing with outbound distribution from plants or warehouses, is instrumental in the success or failure of businesses. . SEE ALSO: Supply Chain Strategy Development. . Supply Chain Network Design. Mini Case Study: Whirlpool.

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Reverse Logistics: Who Does it Well?

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In addition, returns typically cost more to handle than outbound shipments – 3 to 4 times more for traditional retail companies, for example. Increasingly, ecommerce vendors understand the advantage of an easy-to-print, free-of-charge return shipping label for a customer to stick on a box and return by post.