*Hot Properties
With a reasonably constructed ten-year lease, a fulfillment operation can expect to attain an equity-underwritten rate of three dollars a square foot
Operations & Fulfillment
THAT’S AN ORDER
Did you ever notice that the declaration It’s not your father’s Oldsmobile any more turned out to be false? It was your father’s Oldsmobile. No one believed
talking heads
Everybody’s going to go wireless. Wires are expensive, and so are the infrastructure, the support personnel, and the office space. Wireless technology
Joining Forces
Companies have to keep the main thing the main thing Direct-to-customer retailers choose to outsource because of the third-party fulfillment industry’s
PC Connection Lays Off 125, Launches Book
PC Connection, a $1.45 billion computer cataloger, announced on March 28 that it was eliminating 125 jobs, or 7.5% of its work force, taking a one-time
KEVIN WOOLCOTT
How did you get into this line of work? I think it’s one of those things where you just fall into a career path. Years ago, I started working in a catalog
Postal Power
The total freight is often as much as 40% lower than UPS ground Despite an impressive performance in recent years, few direct-to-customer shippers view
PRIVATE EYES
When a supervisor at one of WearGuard-Crest’s two U.S. call centers asked an employee why she had been e-mailing computer games back and forth with several
Forerunner’s IF/SO
Users say that IF/SO is straightforward and easy to learn In the direct-to-customer business, efficient inventory management is the key to customer satisfaction,
Cool It
Before you rush out to snap up industrial real estate, some caution may be warranted, warns Robert VonAncken, executive managing director of the Landauer