2015 holiday shopping, peak season 2015, ecommerce, Innotrac, Cyber Weekend 2015, Black Friday 2015, Cyber Monday 2015

5 Last-minute Tips to Prepare for Cyber Monday

| Jim Yu

With Adobe projecting Cyber Monday sales to pass the $2 billion dollar mark, this is the busiest and potentially most profitable day of the year for ecommerce merchants. Here are 5 last-minute tips to ensure your ecommerce site is ready.

Avoiding IT Outages During the Holiday Season

| Carl Meadows

For online retailers, the holiday selling season is critical to their financial strength and even survival. That’s why it’s imperative to keep your IT operations up and running and to recognize and repel cyber-attackers. While it’s probably too late to take major actions this holiday season, retailers can still take some steps to minimize such disruptions.

Amazon Launches Login and Pay with Amazon

| Tim Parry

Amazon has released a new service that streamlines how customers transact with online merchants. Login and Pay with Amazon allows participating merchants to empower customers to go from check out using their existing Amazon account information.

Vote for the Best Operations Summit T-Shirt Design

| Erin Lynch

We are in the midst of designing our new Operations Summit ‬ t-shirt for our 2014 conference! Our offices are buzzing with ideas but decided the ultimate t-shirt design should be chosen by you. Let us know which t-shirt you like best and vote now!

ecommerce, ecommerce platforms, Order Management Systems, order management, distribution center, Operations and Fulfillment, omnichannel, omnichannel fulfillment, omnichannel strategy

Optimizing Mobile Apps for Retail Purchases

| Ezra Siegel

Making your ecommerce site mobile accessible is a straightforward task, but actually getting customers to use your mobile app or site can be extremely difficult. In order to help, there are five key strategies that can be used to drive more purchases through mobile devices.

key performance indicators, KPIs, operations and fulfillment, warehouse/distribution Center, distribution center, direct-to-consumer, direct-to-consumer operations, performance metrics, employee productivity, employee coaching, manager training

8 Tips for Designing Your Warehouse

| Erin Lynch

If you are thinking about moving forward with building a new warehouse or updating your current one, here are a few tips from Cirrus Logistics to help ensure your warehouse will run at peak performance from the moment you plan your facility.