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Category: E-Commerce
Delivery Experience
A Sneak Peek into Alibaba’s Logistics Prep Ahead of Single’s Day 2020
Oct 28, 2020
Key Takeaways Single’s Day, Guanggun Jie, or Bare Sticks Holiday, celebrated on November 11 every year, is one of the biggest commercial holidays across the world. Originally, Single’s Day was started in 1993 by university students at Nanjing University in China as a celebration of singlehood, marked by purchasing gifts and going out for parties. […]
Delivery Experience
Top 5 Holiday Season Supply Chain Trends to Watch Out in 2020
Oct 23, 2020
Key Takeaways 2020 has been a tough pill to swallow in more ways than one, but it’s officially the holiday season now. Finally, it is that time of the year to soak in some holiday cheer and have a good time with family and friends. With festivities like Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year lined […]
E-Commerce
Ecommerce Fulfillment Strategy: How to Prepare E-commerce Logistics for Peak Season
Oct 5, 2020
Key Takeaways An ecommerce fulfillment strategy is the operating plan that connects inventory, warehousing, order processing, delivery execution, customer communication, and returns to meet delivery promises profitably. During peak season, that strategy must extend into the last mile: route optimization, dispatch automation, fleet capacity planning, real-time ETA management, exception handling, and reverse logistics. Peak season […]
Delivery Experience
How Artificial Intelligence can Optimize the Online Fashion Supply Chain
Jul 2, 2020
Key Takeaways AI in Fashion Supply Chain: The world of fashion has changed drastically since the outbreak of the Coronavirus pandemic. The first blow to the industry was the shutting down of the world’s largest textile producing and exporting country in the world, China. As COVID-19 spread afar, non-essential businesses were closed down globally. Shopping […]
E-Commerce
Why Retail Brands are Gunning for Direct-to-Consumer Sales During COVID-19
Jun 16, 2020
Key Takeaways The Coronavirus apocalypse is perhaps the biggest blow to mankind in a long time. It has transformed societies, governments, healthcare systems, economies, and our lifestyles in unforeseen ways. Day-to-day life still remains at a standstill in several parts of the world, but businesses must continue to sell goods and services, and find innovative […]
E-Commerce
Why Buy Online and Pick Up In-Store (BOPIS) is the need of the hour for retailers
Jun 4, 2020
By 2021, 90% of retailers will offer BOPIS, and 75% of them will be able to identify and customize their customers visits. – Retail Touchpoints Report The COVID-19 pandemic has made consumers move towards an omni-channel service like Buy Online and Pick up In-Store. Today, retailers in the US are trying to perfect the BOPIS experience as […]
Delivery Experience
Hyperlocal Delivery Markets See a New Dawn in the US During COVID-19
Jun 3, 2020
Key Takeaways Hyperlocal Delivery Market: Halfway through the year of the pandemic, we’re living in a completely different world now. Novel Coronavirus has not just endangered human lives, it has hit the world economy hard and impacted several industries around the globe. It has turned markets around, giving rise to trends and disruptions we couldn’t […]
CEP and 3PL
Zone-based routing is the need of the hour
May 12, 2020
Key Takeaways Terms like Red, Amber, Green; Red, Orange, Green; phased opening; restrictions; have all become a crucial part of our lives in the last few weeks. With the world slowly opening up amidst the Covid-19 outbreak, supply chain and logistics is going to play a really crucial role in setting up the ‘new normal’. Team […]
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