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Building Loyalty Without Breaking the Bottom Line: the Dual Shipping Dilemma for Ecommerce Merchants

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Online shopping is now easier than ever before, enabling consumers to purchase everything from socks to a dining room table from a computer at their home to a mobile phone in an airport terminal. While this is good news for many ecommerce retailers, it has also become more and more expensive to deliver those goods to customers.

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Alibaba Supply Chain Exec Recommends Futureproofing with AI, Blockchain and Crowdsourcing

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But the supply chain disruptions that it exacerbated have not fallen by the wayside as easily as disposable masks did, with the global movement of goods continuing to be impacted by one challenge after another — from war and terrorist attacks to drought. The COVID-19 pandemic has, for all intents and purposes, ended.

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Supply Chain Challenges Have Introduced a New Concept into Ecommerce — Inventory Pacing

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Supply chain management is the heart of retail management and has the ability to inform the overall health of a business. As a result, businesses looking to gain a competitive advantage in the global marketplace are investing more heavily in supply chain management. Navigating the Dynamic and Evolving Shipping Industry.

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Clean Data, Clean Planet: How Online Retailers can use Data Analytics to Reduce Their Carbon Footprint

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Inflation has tightened margins and supply chain issues have caused havoc with inventory planning. With issues in ports arising from COVID-19, some retailers switched from sea to air to secure supply of product from manufacturing hubs such as China or India. This will diminish unnecessary product journeys and surplus supply.

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2021 State of Holiday Shipping in the US

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The pandemic has largely disrupted holiday shipping in 2021, with a surge in online purchases, record shipping costs, port congestion, and inventory shortage. This can give you a headstart in your process towards making data-backed decisions to optimize their supply chain during the critical Holiday season and beyond.

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How to Make Money by Requiring a Minimum Order Quantity (MOQ)

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In this post, you’ll learn what an MOQ is, how to set one that won’t make your customers run for the hills, and how to use the strategy to increase your profits and reduce your expenses. With an MOQ in place, it ensures you’re covering production costs and making a profit. Step 3: Calculate Your Holding Costs.

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How Northern Tool Cut Corrugate Spending 30% and Enhanced its Unboxing CX

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This mismatch of the item’s size and the box it comes in might seem like a minor problem, but it makes the already expensive last mile even more costly, with higher corrugate cardboard costs and wasted space in delivery trucks (not to mention being a sustainability nightmare).