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| Smart Warehouse Technology the Wave of the Future |
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| Smart warehouse technology powered by 5G, combined with the sensor- and data-driven Internet of Things (IoT), will be as transformative for logistics and supply chain as the Ford assembly line in 1913, attendees were told during a presentation at Ecommerce Operations Summit 2021 in Nashville. |
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| Point Pickup Acquires GrocerKey, Builds Instacart Alternative |
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| Point Pickup, a provider of last-mile services for grocers, general merchandise and oversize goods, has acquired ecommerce platform GrocerKey, providing an end-to-end solution for retailers looking to own the customer experience and data often missing from third-party solutions like Instacart. |
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| Port Logistics Group is now Whiplash! |
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Whiplash combines the best of Port Logistics Group with Whiplash Merchandising Inc., pairing deep logistics execution experience and national scale with an advanced order management and omnichannel fulfillment platform.
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| Assessing Your Dock-to-Stock Efficiency |
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| Dock-to-stock time is a KPI measuring the time from receipt on your dock to a pickable or bulk reserve location. The process involves aspects of purchase order writing, inbound transportation, receiving, staging, inspection and put away. Here's eight steps to help you assess your processes, identify problems and lay out an action plan. |
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| Ecommerce 3PLs: Sorting Posers from Pros |
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| With peak season upon us, vetting prospective ecommerce 3PLs should focus on their ability to execute under peak conditions. While some may be good at a few aspects of ecommerce operations, the ability to scale up is crucial, and doing so end to end is a rare quality indeed. Here's how to separate the 3PL posers from the pros. The outsourcers who can truly do it all according to each brand's requirements are the real pros. 3PLs that can't do it all – at scale – are just posers. |
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