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NOT Your Dad’s Supply Chain: 4 Trends Every Retail Exec Should Know for 2024

Retail TouchPoints

In 2024, it won’t be your dad’s supply chain. These four emerging trends elevate the urgency for supply chain execs to move distributed order management (DOM) to the top of their lists. #1: Retailers need additional tools to fully integrate these stores’ back-of-house (BOH) operations into the rest of their supply chain.

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Nearly three quarters of shoppers have abandoned online shopping carts due to shipping

Retail Technology Review

A new global shipping report by BigCommerce, the ecommerce platform for fast-growing and established brands, reveals that almost three quarters (73%) of UK online shoppers have abandoned their cart because they did not like the shipping options available.

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Indirect Procurement: Fueling Innovation in Retail’s New Reality

Retail TouchPoints

Goods are held up by shipping container shortages, congested ports and a long-simmering lack of truck drivers that’s worsened with unprecedented resignation and retirement rates. The key to addressing the retail sector’s supply chain nightmare could lie in a sometimes-overlooked area: indirect, or not-for-resale, expenditures.

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Don’t Fall Victim to a Cyber Attack: A Shopper’s Guide to Cybersecurity

Retail TouchPoints

Shopping is one of life’s simple pleasures. And in today’s day and age, shopping online has never been easier — with targeted ads, free shipping, free returns, stores built into Instagram or TikTok, logins saved on your browser and payment information saved on your devices.

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Why Retailers Must Simplify Complex Last-Mile Delivery 

Retail TouchPoints

Today’s retail supply chains have evolved into complex global webs of infrastructure, vehicles and people that move products from raw material to end consumer. And unlike the first and middle miles of the supply chain, each product on every delivery vehicle in the last mile has a unique destination.

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Dropshipping Definition: The Best Way to Setup a Drop shipping Business Quickly

Ecommerce Platforms

Drop Shipping! In this complete guide, we'll cover all the ins and outs of drop shipping as a business model that you should know if you're considering it the path for you. . Dropshipping Guide: Table of Contents: Chapter #1: What is drop shipping? Chapter #2: Pros and cons of drop shipping. “Dropshipping!

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The importance of Estimated Delivery Date during the holidays

lateshipment

Yes 45% of customers abandon their carts because of unsatisfactory delivery options.(hhipbob) hhipbob) It is important to provide your customers with accurate shipping information including estimated delivery date. Imagine that a customer is shopping last minute for Christmas gifts for their loved one.

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