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Less Than Truckload Shipping Trends to Wrap Up 2018

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Shipping rates will continue to soar, and demand for more capacity will push the stretched industry to its breaking point, says Michael Angell of Freight Waves. Capacity Will Tighten Further Capacity has run at nearly 100-percent utilization since the 2017 hurricane season. e-Book] 8 Big Factors to Consider for Efficient LTL Shipping.

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Addressing Omnichannel Fulfillment Challenges

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Google the term “omnichannel” and you are likely to find as many articles about the challenges associated with omnichannel fulfillment as you are about the importance of omnichannel operations for the future of retail. Fulfillment is the back half of the omnichannel operations story. Challenge 1. Efficiency.

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Omnichannel Operations Benefit from Cognitive Computing

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The editorial staff at Supply Chain Digest (SCD) note, “The omnichannel world brings many opportunities — and challenges. Combine omnichannel commerce with the power of digitization, and a whole new world of insight into customer behavior can emerge.”[1] Downstream omnichannel challenges. ”[2]. ”[2].

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Why Returning to Stores Is the Ultimate E-Commerce & Omnichannel Customer Experience Play

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Following the 2017 holiday shopping season, retailers grew significantly, and today, e-commerce makes up 17 percent of all retail sales in the U.S. Errors in product accuracy, which may occur when the wrong item is shipped out of the facility. Why Are E-Commerce Returns Higher Than Brick-and-Mortar Sales? Buyer’s remorse.

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Omnichannel is another Word for Complexity

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Omnichannel retail operations are well on their way to becoming the norm. Michael Jones ( @mdjonesy ), a business consultant, explains, “Consumers don’t shop ‘omnichannel.’ ”[1] Successful companies make omnichannel operations seamless and easy for consumers; but, behind the scenes complexity rules.

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Omnichannel Fulfillment and the Amazon Effect

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Second, it streamlines distribution, often eliminating the cost of shipping, and getting orders in consumers’ hands more quickly. The so-called omnichannel solution envisions those outlets operating both as familiar sites for merchandise display and as fulfillment nodes for online sales. Competing in the omnichannel environment.

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Omnichannel Logistics Solutions Takes the Supply Chain To The Next Level

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Over the last year, huge strides were made in machine-to-machine connectivity, as foreseen by our predictions, ranging from the greater use of automated identification and data capture (AIDC) and stronger resolve for more omnichannel logistics solutions. Customers Pushed For More OmniChannel Logistics Solutions, and They Got It.