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Peak Shipping Season Update: What’s Driving Change in the Industry?

GlobalTranz

The long and unpredictable peak shipping season continues to challenge supply chains. A 2021 Peak Shipping Season survey conducted by Edelman Intelligence found hiring to be a strong concern among supply chain decision makers with 90% having a strong need to increase hiring to account for peak season and beyond. Higher freight volumes.

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Omnichannel Focus on BOPIS

Enterra Insights

In the retail world, BOPIS stands for Buy Online Pick-up In Store and for some retailers it has become the heart of their omnichannel strategy. ”[1] The Parcel Pending staff continues, “For retailers that have both an online and physical storefront, BOPIS is simply an additional shipping option that appears at online checkout.

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Omnichannel Operations Benefit from Cognitive Computing

Enterra Insights

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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Top 6 Retail Trends & Supply Chain Planning Challenges in 2023

Logistics Viewpoints

Increasing Points of Interaction and Delivering Omnichannel Fulfillment Since the start of the pandemic, shoppers have been changing their shopping patterns and are now relying more on online shopping and mobile apps and asking for faster deliveries. Returns are indisputably bad for the climate.

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11 Best Practices to Ship Parcel Like a Pro

GlobalTranz

These giants have deep pockets, capable of offering low-cost, if not free, parcel shipping. However, that does not mean all shippers must face the challenges to ship parcel at their expense. If shippers charge to ship parcel, customers will simply go to Amazon. Negotiate Shipping Rates Like a Pro.

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Reshaping the Future: Creating Sustainable Business Growth

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Motion Warehouse Advantage Warehouse Management System as the future foundation of its omnichannel operations. Though the journey with Körber, we started to understand how the capability in this space had moved on and how the WMS was central to us setting ourselves up as a true omnichannel retailer,” he says. Körber’s K.

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The VF Corporation Invested in Supply Chain Agility Before COVID Made “Agility” the New Buzzword

Logistics Viewpoints

The old product development process involved shipping prototypes back and forth. Supporting Ecommerce and Omnichannel. During COVID, VF responded to COVID-driven consumer behaviors by adding new omnichannel capabilities like buy-online, pick-up-in-store and ship-from-store. A Digital Supply Chain Transformation.