What Are Your Warehouse Management System Priorities?
We asked three operations experts to find out what their priorities are for an effective warehouse management system.
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It’s Time to Plan your Post-holiday Returns Process
While most pre-holiday planning involves striking the perfect balance among inventory, increased traffic in-store and online, and competitive promotions, a few easy steps in advance of the holiday madness can help ensure post-holiday preparedness as well. Evaluate your returns process from both within and outside the organization. Examine the customer experience to identify possible pain points. Process refunds and store credits as quickly as possible.
How Merchandise Forecasting Can Reduce Back Orders
Sure, your order management and fulfillment system should be able to take a snapshot of your data for yesterday and today, but what about tomorrow? How will the multiple multichannel promotions you have in place and have planned affect demand? How many SKUs will you need of which items two weeks from now, or a month out?
7 Tips to Prepare Your Distribution Center for its Peak
Whether your peak to average ratio is 2-1 or 20-1, time is getting tight to ensure that your facility is ready for peak. Making that list and checking it twice can be just the thing to ensure another successful peak season.
Teamwork Helps Fat Brain Toys Open New Distribution Center in 48 Hours
Mark Carson, president and co-founder of Fat Brain Toys, said his staff moved the company’s inventory last Friday through Sunday and the new space became operational on Monday.
5 Tips to Simplify Seasonal Hiring
It can often be difficult to find the right people to fill the numerous temporary positions that so many seasonal businesses have available, and for such short periods of time. Here are five tips to help simplify the hiring process.
It’s 11:00 PM: Do You Know Where Your Inventory Is?
The Holy Grail of multichannel commerce is unifying databases to simplify both the management of all business data and the operation of systems that rely on it, thus eliminating independent data silos that segregate data and require duplication of effort
5 Tips to Help You Forecast Sales This Holiday Season
It’s only May, but it’s never too early to start for merchants to start planning for the crush of the holiday season. Here are 5 things you can start doing now to effectively manage your inventory and fulfillment operations this holiday season.
10 Tips for Warehouse Management System Implementation
Warehouse management systems are complicated and labor-intensive to implement, with long timelines and few dates available for go live. As a result, merchants often decide to take their implementations live with only the essentials in place and a long list of