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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. That’s no longer workable.

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Inventory Management for Scaling ($1M+) Businesses: Techniques You Need to Know Before You Go Bust

BigCommerce

These levels are set automatically by the system and changed constantly based on how your items are selling. We realized we needed an automated system to update our inventory on the fly. Luckily, after testing a few systems, we found Skubana and have been with it ever since. This one in particular makes me very happy.

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An Interview with Peter Zaballos, Senior VP and CMO at SPS Commerce

SellBrite

SPS Commerce is a cloud-based EDI solutions provider used by more than 65,000 retailers, suppliers and logistics firms everywhere. As someone who has a career’s worth of experience developing technology to support retailers, I wanted to get Peter’s take on the importance of inventory management and EDI technology.

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7 Must-Know Clothing Dropshipping Suppliers for Fashion Retail Brands

Fabric

To overcome these challenges, fashion retailers are taking this opportunity to reevaluate their current systems and processes to lower costs, diversify, explore new technologies, and strengthen relationships with brands. Drop-shipping will increase substantially. One major opportunity? Dropshipping. A solution for a $1.7

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21 Sessions, Presentations and Workshops You Can’t Miss at IRCE 2018

BigCommerce

Smaller and newer brands are taking full advantage of cloud services, but legacy systems are more glacial in adopting the new technology. What to Know Before You Go: B2B online sales excluding automatic EDI initiated orders is set to hit $7.7T Attendees will learn how to: Configure external systems to ensure they work in harmony.

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Multi-Channel Retailing and the Buyer’s Journey: Opportunities and Challenges

BigCommerce

Similarly, fulfillment options such as Amazon FBA, drop shipping, and third-party logistics (3PLs) help accelerate growth. Managing stock through spreadsheets and outdated tracking systems will likely lead to overselling, understocking, and backorders, all of which lead to a negative customer experience.

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The State of Ecommerce Platforms in 2018: Cloud Commerce, Open SaaS and The API Economy

BigCommerce

This need for speed and innovation from a marketing standpoint (and desire for SaaS) has been put at odds with the need for complete control on the IT side via monolithic systems. Using APIs and occasionally decoupled technology, brands can maintain their single source of truth monolithic systems on the operations end.