Fulfillment Operations: Scaling Starts with Strong Systems

| Brian Mattingly

Scaling for growth and business fluctuations are expected to be a primary focus for retailers and brands this year, and has a major impact on fulfillment operations. Before you get ahead of your skis on automation and robotics, here are some basics on doing a needs assessment and a system check to align investments with business needs.

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Walmart, Salesforce Team Up on Fulfillment Services

| Mike O'Brien

Drawing parallels with Amazon’s expansion of Buy With Prime to all U.S. merchants — do they each have moles in the other’s operation? — Walmart and Salesforce have linked up to provide the former’s delivery and fulfillment services to a wider swath of merchants in the latter’s app store.

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Doing Cross-Border Ecommerce, Post-Covid

| Nishith Rastogi

Building an international presence through cross-border ecommerce is often an incredibly daunting task, even for the most established brands. Following these best practices will help ensure greater success and an overall better customer experience by avoiding supply chain and logistics disruptions while maximizing brand potential.

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The Four Pillars of Success in an Omnichannel OMS

| MCM Staff

Order Management Systems provide the foundation of omnichannel success for retailers and brands building direct-to-consumer (DTC) strategies. In this free on-demand MCM webinar, Forrester analyst Emily Pfeiffer and executives with Softeon discuss key aspects of an omnichannel OMS and case studies from leading retailers.