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The Consumer Journey Gets More Complex

Enterra Insights

One of the behaviors to which they often point is an increase in online purchases. Even before the pandemic, consumers were trending towards more online shopping — making the digital path to purchase and omnichannel operations important for manufacturers and retailers. The omnichannel approach.

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Omnichannel Retail and the Cost to Serve Online Customers

Logistics Bureau

If yours is one of those businesses shifting from traditional to online retail, you’ve probably faced some of the logistical challenges arising from the need to deliver your customers’ purchases to them. High Cost to Serve: It’s an Omnichannel Problem. Omnichannel Challenges that Can Increase Cost to Serve.

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Ecommerce Inventory Management: Why the Right Software is Key

Unleashed

Manufacturers and brick-and-mortar retailers have been using software to manage their inventory for years – but inventory management is even more important when you’re running a business that operates in the complex eCommerce space. Learn more: Guide to Effective Multichannel Selling What is eCommerce inventory management?

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WMS Software for Warehouses in Dubai

Vinculum

The solution, then, is to link your order, inventory, and logistics to speed up inventory turnaround and coordinate your efforts. Still, they may also use cutting-edge technical innovations like 3D printing, RFID monitoring, and GPS-driven solutions to assist corporate expansion. And none of them can be picked up. Inventory tracking .

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Are you still spending time and money to run a lengthy RFI/RFQ/RFP process for a SaaS platform purchase?

Supply Chain Management and Analytics

Companies tend to engage in request for information (RFI), request for quote (RFQ) and request for proposal (RFP) processes to make sure they end up choosing the right software that meets their business and IT requirements. In reality, straightforward ROI on a SaaS solution is much faster; most likely months as opposed to years.

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Sales Order Processing: What is it, and how do you optimise it?

Unleashed

Sales order processing, also known as order management, is the flow of steps from customer purchase through to product delivery. It details each phase of the purchase and order fulfilment process, including financial transaction, order picking and logistics. A purchase order goes in the other direction.

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Buying 2021 Holiday Gifts for the 2022 Holiday Season

Enterra Insights

Consumers continue to spend but not at the same rate as in 2021 and not on the items they couldn’t get enough of last year — furniture, appliances, exercise equipment, loungewear, etc. ” Today’s retailers know omnichannel operations lie at the heart of a successful holiday shopping season.