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A Vendor’s Guide to B2B Ecommerce

FastSpring

While we’ve been shopping for items like clothes or shoes online for years, another trend is now emerging—business-to-business (B2B) ecommerce. It’s easy to think of online sales as a marketplace where we buy items for ourselves, but more and more B2B and SaaS sales are now happening online. What is B2B Ecommerce?

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Internal Warehouse vs. 3PL: How to Reach the Best Decision for Your Business

Retail TouchPoints

The company must have a warehouse to keep its inventory, and a logistics team to manage the goods for storing, ordering and shipping directly to stores/distributors or customers. In contrast, 3PL services oversee the order fulfillment cycle on behalf of the company. Are you ready to outsource your operations?

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Generative AI for Personalized Service and a Competitive Edge in Ecommerce

Retail TouchPoints

Generative AI is set to revolutionize ecommerce, enabling a more interactive and personalized shopping experience, which is integral to both attracting and retaining customers. In the crowded landscape of ecommerce, a positive customer experience across every aspect of an order has become intrinsic to online success.

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Do You Have What It Takes to go from Wholesale to DTC?

Retail TouchPoints

There are plenty of good reasons to sell direct, from higher margins to insulation from future pandemics, but succeeding at DTC requires a different set of skills than the B2B environment you’re used to. You can’t just repurpose your B2B website and add a shopping cart to turn it into a shopping platform. Digital Marketing.

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Modernizing legacy systems for supply chain excellence

Pivotree Blog

An integrated supply chain ecosystem When modernizing, it’s important to address the end-to-end supply chain so that all systems work together, including ecommerce, omnichannel, order management, warehouse management, transport management, and other platforms that are critical to order fulfillment.

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Ecommerce Fulfillment Services (Jul 2020): The Best Order Fulfillment Companies

Ecommerce Platforms

Here's our summary of the top ecommerce fulfillment companies out there: ?? Summary table: 5 of the best order fulfillment companies. Fulfillment service provider. How is Fulfillment Different from Dropshipping? ?? What Are Some of the Top International Fulfillment Companies? ?? Order management.

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The Best Fulfillment Services for Shopify

Ecommerce Platforms

Found as an add-on within the Shopify app marketplace, ShipBob is one of the most popular tools for ecommerce fulfillment. The organization works with both B2B and DTC customers, ensuring products are delivered to consumers as quickly as possible. There’s also access to wholesale order fulfilment and retail dropshipping.