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

Retail TouchPoints

As the Head of Supply Chain for Alibaba ‘s North America B2B business, Yikun Shao is right in the thick of it. In 2020 he joined Alibaba, where he is now tasked with developing the company’s strategy and building platform-level solutions around international shipping, logistics, cross-border trade and global expansion.

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How to Sell & Ship Perishable Goods Online

Groove

By offering a frozen food product like this online, a customer willing to pay the associated costs will be able to enjoy it from the comfort of their home all year long. Shipping Requirements. Depending upon the perishable food products that you will be selling directly to consumers, a series of shipping issues will present themselves.

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Adapting B2B Integration To Support Distributed Commerce

RTP blog

Today’s distributed commerce environment — with its improved digital shopping technologies and widespread adoption of multiple commerce channels — demands greater supply chain agility to drop-ship merchandise when and where the customer wants it. Supply chains generate a huge amount of data from all of the connections among business partners.

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Everything You Need to Know About Shopify Plus Pricing

Ecommerce Platforms

Not only does Shopify offer tiered pricing plans that unlock more features and cheaper transaction fees, but it also offers an Enterprise level plan that takes things to the next level. However, from the information offered on Shopify's website alone, figuring out exactly how much Shopify Plus will cost you can be difficult.

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Best Fulfillment Center for Startups

Ecommerce Platforms

But at some point, you’ll want to find a fulfillment provider to offer faster shipping, and to focus on other parts of your business. You want to keep costs low, improve efficiency, and move all that inventory to a location that’s close to your customers. You can ship affordably, to almost anywhere in the world, in 2 days.

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Holiday Leftovers? Here are 4 Ways Sellers can Minimize Excess Inventory

Retail TouchPoints

For one thing, it can lead to increased costs as companies may need to pay for additional storage space to hold the excess inventory. A lot of sellers will start out selling on a single ecommerce marketplace, but then find as time passes that this marketplace gets more saturated — and more expensive to advertise on — making it harder to sell.

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B2B Mobile Commerce Apps are Hot: Here's Why

GetElastic

B2B Mobile Commerce Apps are Hot: Here's Why. News and Events. Mobile commerce apps for B2B are increasing, and with good reason -- 80% of B2B buyers are using mobile at work, and more than 60% say mobile played a significant role in a recent purchase. How mobile applications support B2B commerce.

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