What are you doing in your warehouse across freight management, incentive pay for employees, creating baselines for KPIs, developing great managers and other critical areas? Here are 10 things to consider as you look for ways to make your operations more efficient and less costly.
The Multichannel Merchant team held its 8th Annual Ecommerce Operations Summit April 9 through 11 in Columbus, Ohio. The event included several highly attended sessions, engaging roundtables, warehouse tours and exciting keynote discussions. The exhibit hall was buzzing with sponsors and exhibitors, and attendees had the chance to network with their peers throughout the conference. Here is a look back at Ecommerce Operations Summit in photos. Enjoy!
Multichannel Merchant launched its new Women in Operations program at Ecommerce Operations Summit last week, to unite and honor women in the industry and empower their careers. The program honored and celebrated three women for their career achievements and contributions in the industry. Discover who these women are and how they continue to foster growth and diversity in the industry.
It’s one thing to be running behind on programming modifications, testing and implementing your systems project. It’s another to unknowingly commit your company to a system go live without management review, risk assessment and agreement and signoff. These 10 points should be part of your readiness assessment.
Given the rapid pace of change, how forward looking are your operations and fulfillment strategies, and are you pursuing the right ones? Ecommerce Operations Summit (April 9-11, Columbus), is an excellent way to evaluate emerging trends. Here are some highlights we found in the conference agenda, and why they’re beneficial.
Are you an operations and fulfillment professional with a great, compelling story to tell that will educate and inform your industry peers? If so, we want to hear from you! The Ecommerce Operations Summit 2019 Call for Speakers is open from now until Aug. 10. Send us your best ideas and we’ll consider them for next year’s agenda.
The holiday season is just around the corner and 20% to 30% of annual sales rely on getting it right. Here is a deep dive look at the expectations of consumers this holiday season.
While barcodes have been in use for many years in shipping and manifesting systems, many warehouses still don’t fully use this technology. That’s a shame, because barcodes help you reduce costs and increase control of your operation.
For lighting, furniture and home décor wholesale manufacturer Regina Andrew Design, having all of its inventory data on one system was important to the success of its business. Here is how it streamlined its inventory data to cater to both B2B and B2C customers.
In the distribution center, walking from one location to the next accounts for 60% of a picker’s time. Reducing walking time, then, is all but guaranteed. Here are ways to know which method is efficient for your business.