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Holiday Shipping Services & Solutions

Ship Monk

Strategy and precision around the holidays are as important to ecommerce store owners as lights and ornaments are to the pivotal pine tree. Considering all that, ecommerce stores need to have their ducks (or, rather, gifts) in a row come peak season. Think ecommerce stores that specialize in clothes, toys, and books for example.

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Logistics in E-commerce: Challenges, Importance and Best Practices

3PL Links

This entails handling refunds, exchanges, and product returns. Customer satisfaction eCommerce companies place a high premium on customer satisfaction. The entire customer experience is directly impacted by logistics, from the quality of packing to the speed of delivery. How can I improve the delivery time of my products?

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Retail Supply Chains: The State of Play in 2021

Logistics Bureau

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. The Dark Store Trend.

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Editor’s Pick: 3 Things You Need to Know About Cross-Border E-commerce

Talking Logistics

This was revealed in a recent webinar with Charles Brewer , CEO of DHL eCommerce and Kris Kosmala, General Manager APAC at Quintiq. Delivery is indeed the new battleground. So is optimization technology a significant differentiator for express delivery providers? trillion in 2020? 1 Last-mile begins closer to home.

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How E-Commerce Companies Benefit from Using Freight Forwarders Beyond Courier Services

Dedola Global Logistics

While many e-commerce businesses often default to courier services for smaller or express deliveries, there’s an added dimension to logistics through freight forwarding. It is useful for products that are not time-sensitive due to their longer transit times than air freight. This includes ocean containers and air cargo.

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Jack Ma predicts the future of logistics

The Logistics Academy

There’s no denying that over the past ten years, China’s ecommerce market has exploded. Heck, ten years ago, two of China’s biggest ecommerce platforms – Tmall and JD – didn’t even exist, and Taobao was nothing close to the giant sales behemoth that it is today. I just saw a delivery company that helped a client deliver a house.

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The Top 6 Supply Chain Holiday Season Trends in 2021

Locus

to $1.093 trillion, while the season’s ecommerce sales will rise 11.3% Ecommerce will account for a record 18.9% After the pandemic, their e-commerce fulfillment struggled to find products as their inventory was stocked in the wrong warehouse. US ecommerce sales are projected to continue to grow by double digits, up 17.9%