Selecting the Right WMS for Your Current and Future Needs

| Mike O'Brien

With an ever-growing list of warehouse management system (WMS) providers, the wide array of choices can seem overwhelming. In this report you will learn which warehouse management system fits your needs the best, identifying and assessing the current state of your warehouse management system and much more.

MCM Outlook 2017: Seismic Shopping Shifts Bring Evolution to Fulfillment

| Tim Parry

Shift happens. And right now, there’s a seismic shift in how U.S. consumers shop. After years of being told by ecommerce analysts and experts that “this is the Year of Mobile,” mobile commerce is finally here, and it’s taking the traditional retail model with it. Check out why mobile commerce is changing the way retailers are changing everything when it comes to fulfilling orders and communicating with customers.

The State of Catalog Marketing in the Digital Era

| Daniela Forte

While the catalog is still a very important part of a retailer’s marketing efforts, many of them are continuing to shift dollars and focus to digital efforts, as they also revise their catalog strategy in a new era. See which major retailers are making the shift from the traditional catalog and implementing a digital strategy.

Strategies for Fulfillment Success in Omnichannel

| MCM staff

In this special report from Multichannel Merchant, you will learn how retailers are moving toward a strategy that involves multiple selling touchpoints for consumers to interact with and the technology solutions available that can leverage existing hardware and software and improve overall fulfillment systems performance.

Ecommerce Returns Help Shape the Customer Experience

| MCM staff

Ecommerce returns are increasing, and merchants need to find new ways to deal with the constant influx. Learn how some top brands are getting ahead of the situation, including making the reverse logistics process more efficient, increasing the speed of customer credit and using friction-free returns as a way to increase customer lifetime value.

7 Ways to Control Parcel Shipping Costs

| Tim Parry

Giant omnichannel players such as Walmart, Bed Bath & Beyond, Pier 1 Imports and Target have lowered their free-shipping thresholds to better compete with Amazon. Here are how merchants of all sizes can look into their operations for ways to control their shipping costs.

The Latest Trends in Ecommerce Packaging and Their Impacts

| Mike O'Brien

The packaging you use in ecommerce and direct-to-customer shipments acts as an ambassador of your brand. How it appears, how it protects the contents and even how the product is packed can reflect positively or negatively on your company. This special report from Multichannel Merchant examines how merchants are working to balance packaging costs and customer experience through innovation and use of new systems and processes.

Making Omnichannel Fulfillment a Less Daunting Task

| Tim Parry

Offering customers the convenience of buy online pickup in store and ship to store, and transparently speeding up delivery to homes with ship from store, can be a daunting task. Download Multichannel Merchant’s special report on omnichannel fulfillment and learn.

What Warehouse Technology System Is Right for You?

| Mike O'Brien

What are the main decision criteria when acquiring a warehouse technology system? Whether you have an existing system or are adding one for the first time, there are a whole host of factors that have to be taken into consideration. This special report from Multichannel Merchant will help guide your through the process.

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How to Win in Omnichannel Inventory Management

| Mike O'Brien

Omnichannel commerce and all its permutations are causing direct-to-customer companies to seek new solutions and approaches to inventory management in order to tame increasingly complex order and fulfillment patterns while meeting rising customer demands. In this MCM report, learn how things like distributed order management and inventory visibility solutions can help you avoid the pitfalls and cut down on overstocks, out-of-stocks and returns.