Lynn Jeffrey’s job at Vermont Teddy Bear Company is strategic, financial, and human resource planning, and setting policy and procedures for the contact and distribution centers. Read more about what Jeffrey does for Vermont Teddy Bear Company and how it brought her to where she is today.
Nancy Spector leads operations at Plae, Inc., a startup in consumer retail. She is also focused on trying to create a learning environment where people can contribute and grow. Read more about what else she is focused on in her job.
Kristin Bauer is responsible for working to drive efficiencies in Ulta Beauty’s current distribution centers but also the facility design, build and deployment of new distribution centers in its network. Read more about how she made great strides in operations in retail.
Siloed inventory and a lack of cross-channel integration to service a highly dynamic customer set can doom retail franchisees. Here’s how an open, distributed inventory management model can help them get it right.
UPS plans to hire 95,000 seasonal workers, primarily package handlers, drivers and driver helpers, as major retails announce their retail peak season plans. See what a major outplacement firm says about hiring trends
Metrics to track and manage distribution center performance need to be meaningful, actionable and objective in order to impact performance and the business, attendees were told at Parcel Forum 2016. See what the head of direct-to-customer operations at Boot Barn had to say about how DC metrics support overall business goals.
Google has expanded its two-day Google Express delivery service to 40 million new customers in the Midwest, now offering it in 17 states in its push against the dominance of Amazon Prime. See where it has grown and what retailers are using it.
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.
Fast delivery time and premium packaging has a high impact on customer loyalty, according to recent data from Dotcom Distribution. Click through and find out what else the logistics and fulfillment firm learned in May in its survey of 558 consumers.
Oracle has acquired LogFire, which provides a cloud-based system integrating warehouse, inventory and workforce management. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. This comes on the heels of Oracle’s major $9.3 billion acquisition of Netsuite in August, as it continues to aggressively push into cloud-based supply chain management and logistics.