Question: How prepared is your company to deal with change in your fulfillment operations today and be profitable in the future? This first installment in a four-part series focuses on ways to help you reduce costs, increase productivity and improve customer service in your multichannel business.
Amazon has taken the unusual step of limiting Fulfillment by Amazon warehouses and services to existing sellers until Dec. 19, to deal with capacity issues. See what an industry analyst has to say about the significance of the move and its impact.
Amazon announced plans to hire more than 120,000 workers in 27 states to handle peak season demand at its 90+ distribution and fulfillment centers in the U.S., up 20% from 100,000 in 2015. This comes as major retailers and carriers are holding the line on holiday hiring.
The mobile revolution helps retailers get through inventory season. Here is how mobile can help your inventory in the warehouse during the busiest time of the year.
Omnichannel has become a standard practice in retail, but how well are companies achieving inventory visibility across channels that is so critical to its success?
In this infographic from Stitch Labs, see where the gaps are between omnichannel vision and reality, and what steps can be taken to see improvements.
There are 5 essential practices for the digital economy that can help merchants ensure a successful ecommerce distribution center operation. These operating principles in fulfillment, operations and labor management will help mitigate the risks created by expanding ecommerce and omnichannel business.
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.
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.
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.
The financial woes of South Korean concern Hanjin Shipping Co Ltd, the world’s seventh-largest ocean freight line, is causing a ripple effect that is disrupting supply chains across retail entering the busy fall and holiday season. See what efforts are underway to address the logjam.