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Sustainability Strategies & Tactics for Ecommerce Brand

Ship Monk

Trouble is, managing an ecommerce brand involves certain unavoidable carbon-causing activities like packaging, shipping and returns. Image Source: EcoMatcher How to Calculate Your Carbon Footprint If you’re serious about sustainability, you should start by calculating your carbon footprint.

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KPIs for Ecommerce Businesses & How to Choose Them

Ship Monk

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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Top Ecommerce Metrics to Track

Ship Monk

When you’re driving a car down the road, you have to keep your eye on a few things: how much gas is in the tank, how fast you’re going, whe-ther or not you left the blinker on, to name a few. Now if only you had a dashboard to keep your ecommerce business running. Well, guess what? So, what’s on your dashboard?

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Optimizing Your Store’s Ecommerce Supply Chain

Ship Monk

There are a lot of moving parts to managing an ecommerce supply chain. An ecommerce store owner is expected to master everything from sourcing materials to manufacturing and procurement, to fulfillment and shipping orders to customers. Today we’re going to take a look at a typical ecommerce supply chain from beginning to end.

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Post-COVID Ecommerce is Booming, But Logistics Issues Abound

Logistics Bureau

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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The Demand Powered Supply Chain: How to Win as the Bar Continues to Rise in the Retail Industry

CH Robinson Logistics

This is especially true in the retail space, as a surge in ecommerce and pandemic-driven demand volatility increased the rate of change in an already rapidly evolving industry. You start paying more immediately for backup carriers, or worse, pay much more if you go to the spot market to procure trucks. Increase savings.

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10 Freight Management Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

Logistics Bureau

However, we also know how to help businesses get the most from the resources they have and make the right decisions for improvement. So naturally, we’re here to help your enterprise too. That obstacle no longer exists to such a great extent because developments in cloud technology have spawned a new way to adopt TMS.