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The Need for Delivery Speed Drives Holiday Hiring

Retail TouchPoints

Ecommerce execution will lean more heavily on store-based fulfillment. Holiday hires will help retailers leverage their store-based omnichannel fulfillment capacity through buy online, pick up in-store (BOPIS), curbside pickup, home delivery and ship-from-store services.

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Announcing The Forrester Wave™: Omnichannel Order Management, Q3 2014

Forrester Omnichannel

Orchestrating online orders from the point of purchase through to the point of fulfillment was viewed (through the eyes of eBusiness professionals) as a back-office process. But like the awkward kid at school, Omnichannel OMS systems have blossomed and turned into the must-have technology for almost every eBusiness leader.

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What is microservices-based ecommerce and why is it important?

Kibo

Microservices enable Ecommerce businesses to move away from the rigid all-in-one monolithic systems that make it difficult—if not impossible—to keep up with changing trends in consumer shopping behaviors, expectations, and the need for seamless omnichannel experiences. What is ecommerce microservices architecture?

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You Can’t Afford to Ignore The Benefits of SaaS: It’s Brand Bankruptcy or Digital Transformation

BigCommerce

When I worked agency side, we started building ecommerce sites on SaaS platforms like BigCommerce. I already knew the benefits of SaaS across other pieces of the commerce platform stack, including: Omnichannel commerce technologies. Marketing and Expanding to Omnichannel. OMS Systems. WM Systems.

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What Does ‘Omnichannel’ Mean in 2021? How Marketplaces are Reshaping the Digital Landscape

Retail TouchPoints

As the company’s Senior Director and General Manager of Omnichannel, Sharon Gee has been at the center of the massive shifts taking place in ecommerce over the last year and a half. As a result, companies had to contemplate, ‘What is my omnichannel strategy?

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Instacart Expands Enterprise Offerings with Display Ads and Order Management for Deli and Produce Items

Retail TouchPoints

Instacart has expanded the offerings under its Instacart Platform umbrella, a suite of enterprise-grade technologies designed to help grocers with their digital transformations.

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DISRUPTION IN THE AGE OF AMAZON: 5 STEPS TO TAKE

PFS

Retailers and consumer brands can expect the pace of change to accelerate, driven by emerging technologies, evolving customer expectations, and the proliferation of data. As businesses implement and refine their omni-channel strategies, will stores transition to showrooms or become fulfillment centers? Examine your core business.