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Generative AI in Customer Service: A Balanced Blueprint

| Rebecca Jones

Customer service is crossing a new horizon. For leaders ready to adopt generative AI but unsure where to start, there’s a perfect testing ground: your employees. Starting with internal people and operations will produce lessons and develop processes leading to immediate, impactful results when directed toward customers. Generative AI is set to take things to a whole new level; these practices will help.

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Getting Smart About Automated Intralogistics

| Smitha Raphael

Savvy shippers are introducing automated intralogistics to deliver an enhanced customer experience to gain competitive advantage. They’re also streamlining their business and making warehouse operations as profitable as possible. A multi-agent orchestration platform that is device and technology agnostic switches things up, bringing more uniformity to your fulfillment operations.

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Ecommerce Packaging in the Digital Age

| Tiffani Burt

With the opportunity for so much online revenue at stake, it’s critical to delight consumers with optimized ecommerce packaging that delivers products without damage. Packaging enhancements need to go beyond functionality, using materials that can be reused or recycled. This is good for the business and the environment, and increasingly attractive to consumers.

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Consumers Willing to Forego 1-2-Day Delivery If Given Options

| Mike O'Brien

Evidence continues to mount that that having a range of options and more certainty about when a package will arrive are more important than 1-2-day delivery. In a July survey of 1,000 consumers commissioned by Ware2Go, 90% of respondents said they could live without 1-2-day delivery if given options like free shipping, real-time tracking and the ability to choose the delivery date.

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How Ecommerce Network Design Is Being Reshaped

| Mike O'Brien

A recent trend in ecommerce network design supports a strategy of “getting product closer to the customer,” a more efficient model that delivers on service-level promises. Then came COVID-19, upending everything and accelerating the pace of change in inventory and supply chain strategy, in turn affecting network design. Retailers and analysts discuss the current state and where it’s headed.

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Urban Fulfillment Disruption is Gently’s Goal

| Mike O'Brien

Gently hopes to become a disrupter of urban fulfillment and major retailers with multi-billion-dollar networks, offering a same-day, nano fulfillment model using small nodes located around a city, tapping a predictive analytics engine to stock and position inventory in anticipation of demand.

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What Retailers and CPG Companies Can Learn from Each Other

| Lindsey Peters

Retailers and CPG companies have had a symbiotic relationship for decades, teaming up to offer customers more choice in convenient in-person and ecommerce storefronts. As both take on each other’s challenges, they must learn from the other’s processes and best practices to sustain new revenue streams in the long term based on evolving consumer behaviors, preferences and spending habits. 

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Real-Time Shipping Visibility, Thanks to Predictive Analytics

| Christina Ryan

It’s difficult to fully approximate the time a package will take to arrive when shipping is subject to a multitude of factors outside our control. These variables can include extreme weather, driver shortages, holidays and even customs discrepancies. What if you could know beforehand based on previous patterns, and implement this into the shipping estimate given to the customer? Read on to find out how.

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Call Center Security Equals Customer Satisfaction

| Mishel Mejibovski

Effective customer data management is par for the course in the call center, so data protection is critical. Unfortunately, traditional browsers often lack necessary security controls, leaving data significantly vulnerable to cyber threats. You need a solution that not only provides necessary security controls but also enhances the UX while streamlining processes to increase productivity and efficiency.

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Automating the Customer Experience

| Julian Krenge

For retailers and ecommerce brands, interacting with customers and leaving a good impression is not only a never-ending task, but incredibly important for sustained growth. This is why brands should make it a priority to take advantage of automated tools that save time, reduce the need for customer service agents and provide a consistently seamless customer experience while shopping.