Enterra Insights

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Before the age of e-commerce, department stores dutifully opened a special post-Christmas customer service section dedicated to handling returned products. Those customer service windows still exist; however, many after-holiday returns are now made via e-commerce channels. Maybe it doesn’t fit. Maybe it doesn’t suit your taste.

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BlueYonder

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Shifting and varied consumer preferences, collapsing brand loyalty, even freak weather: as shoppers limber up for the 2023 holiday season, retailers should expect the unexpected. As we’ll see in the 2022 holiday season review to follow, for every pattern, there’s a counter pattern. By now, the reasons are well understood.

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Enterra Insights

JANUARY 21, 2022

Following the holiday shopping season, retailers have little time to take a breath before they must begin planning for the next year. Before starting such planning, however, they would do well to reflect on how things changed during the 2021 holiday shopping season. 2021 Holiday Retail Trends. 2021 Holiday Retail Trends.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 20, 2021

In our conversation, Ken spoke about some of the findings from a recent survey Logistyx conducted on cross-border holiday spending, as well as some larger trends around the state of parcel shipping. Second, how does the ongoing capacity crunch impact the holiday season? The Holiday Season. Cross-Border Sales.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JUNE 23, 2022

WRITTEN BY STEFANY MARTIN / POSTED ON JUNE 9, 2022. When asked what peak season is, it’s easy to assume the holidays are the only peak shipping season. Today, the shipping peak season is still a march toward the holidays, but that march is now at a breakneck pace and subject to massive volatility.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

In our prior Supply Chain Matters commentaries specifically related to the 2023 holiday fulfillment period, we cited online retail providers A mazon , Target , and Walmart as the three bellwethers to focus on regarding the actual revenues, profitability and fulfillment strategies that will shape future industry moves. percent to $276.8

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Enterra Insights

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Ever since the start of the modern Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in 1924, the Friday after Thanksgiving has been known as the unofficial start to a bustling holiday shopping season.” … People being people, they have long stormed stores, caused traffic jams and been generally terrible to one another in an effort not to miss these deals.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Editor’s Note: This is the first in a series of focus on planning and also getting ready for any peak season you may experience due to the holidays or otherwise. As such, preparing the distribution center to handle the strain of the holiday orders and permit the supply chain to be flexible and agile is central to holiday season success.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

This past weekend was a US Holiday–Labor Day. Dealing With A Gloppy Mess. A moderately-priced new home in the United States now costs an additional $16,500. Sales are up 12%. Retail dock doors were a formidable constraint as grocery sales increased 30%. Here I share these insights. The impact? No one knows.

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Enterra Insights

OCTOBER 21, 2021

For decades, retailers have dealt with a slew of post-holiday returns. Before the advent of e-commerce, retailers simply beefed up their returns department to deal with the long lines of unhappy consumers returning unwanted ties, ill-fitting clothing, or other unwanted items. ” Here’s the kicker. Repair processes.

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Cognira

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The Golden Quarter is Here: How Retailers can Succeed this Holiday Season. Will consumers change their holiday shopping behaviors? Throughout the blog, discover 2022 holiday shopping predictions, how retailers can plan their promotions accordingly, and what advanced tools to tap into for optimal success. November 8, 2022.

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Cognira

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The Golden Quarter is Here: How Retailers can Succeed this Holiday Season. Will consumers change their holiday shopping behaviors? Throughout the blog, discover 2022 holiday shopping predictions, how retailers can plan their promotions accordingly, and what advanced tools to tap into for optimal success. November 8, 2022.

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Ware2Go

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

eCommerce merchants should incorporate Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and Small Business Saturday advertising best practices into their holiday selling strategy to remain top-of-mind with the many consumers shopping early amid fears over shipping delays. This year’s holiday shopping rush certainly isn’t new.

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ShipBob

DECEMBER 18, 2019

For some Americans, the holiday comes and goes without them even noticing. In mainland China (and even in other countries that celebrate the holiday such as Indonesia, Malaysia, North Korea, Singapore, South Korea, Vietnam, and Brunei), the Chinese New Year holiday is a very big deal. Halted production.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

According to the Council of Logistics Management, it is “the process of planning, implementing, and controlling the efficient, cost effective flow of raw materials, in-process inventory, finished goods and related information from the point of consumption to the point of origin for the purpose of recapturing value or proper disposal.

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QAD

JULY 5, 2022

So now you might say, great story, Steve, but, what is the point? The point is that for those now in summer, the furthest thing from most people’s minds is winter, the holidays, elves and Santa Clause. Problems that were simply starting before Covid have festered and now exploded. Welcome to Year Round Seasonality.

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Ware2Go

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

From this year’s holiday shipping deadlines to navigating shipping delays, this helpful guide contains everything you need to know to meet consumer expectations for shipping this peak season. The holidays are an especially important time for ecommerce merchants to acquire new customers. Holiday Shipping Trends.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 15, 2018

The holiday season is rapidly approaching, and retailers are jostling into position to take advantage of a growing economy and increased consumer confidence. The Importance of Inventory Management. When it comes to inventory management, new trends are demonstrating that less is more. Getting the Right Tools for the Job.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Editor's Note: This is the second post in a series of focus on planning and also getting ready for any peak season you may experience due to the holidays or otherwise. Here are 5 tips to prepare any shipper to master the art of holiday logistics. Make your Inventory OmniChannel. Benchmark DC Systems to Handle the Volume.

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Alloy

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Get More Out of Your Kroger 84.51° and Market6 Data How Automation and Advanced Metrics You Won’t Get in 84.51° can help you grow your sales at Kroger and avoid inventory headaches. As such, optimally managing your sales and inventory at Kroger is essential to grow your brand and solidify its foothold with the end consumer.

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ModusLink Corporation

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

and other delivery firms that struggled with too much pandemic-fueled demand from online retailers like Amazon and Walmart, now have the opposite problem – too much delivery capacity.”. Peak season is known as the time when retailers record significant hikes in sales ( DCL, 2022 ). What Is E-Commerce Peak Season?

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Cognira

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

According to Forbes , if it used to cost $3,000 to ship a container from southern China to the west coast of the USA, it would now cost $20,000 or more. Hold your inventory. If your inventory is arriving late, hold any products that will still be relevant for next season or sell it off to a markdown retailer.

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ShipBob

AUGUST 12, 2019

Since 2012, about a quarter of total annual retail ecommerce revenue has been generated during the holiday season. And 78% of ecommerce brands saw up to 30% growth in Cyber Weekend 2018 sales compared to 2017, with an additional 11% ecommerce brands seeing up to 50% growth in revenue. Missed our 2019 Holiday Accelerator Summit?

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Locus

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

US holiday retail sales in 2021 will rise 2.7% to $1.093 trillion, while the season’s ecommerce sales will rise 11.3% of total holiday season retail sales. – US Holiday 2020 review and Holiday 2021 Preview, Emarketer Insider Intelligence, Feb 2021. This is both bad news and good news.

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Normally at this time, we would be highlighting preliminary indicators of online and in-store sales that occurred during the Thanksgiving , Black Friday , and today’s Cyber Monday holiday focused shopping events. Profitability objectives are paramount, but inventory overhang remains a significant challenge. averaged $2.37

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 20, 2018

International transportation is dealing with ongoing challenges of tighter capacity. Carrier Consolidation, Heavy Holiday Season & Chinese New Year Impacting Import Space. Carrier Consolidation, Heavy Holiday Season & Chinese New Year Impacting Import Space. Driving this was strong imports – especially for retailers.

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Resilinc

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

In the race to fill distribution centers and store shelves with inventory for the holidays, some of the world’s largest retailers and ecommerce sellers are jumping ahead of smaller competitors by chartering ships, shifting freight to air, re-rerouting inland shipments, and hiring more staff for distribution centers and other supply chain nodes.

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ShipBob

OCTOBER 4, 2022

In this post, we’ll take a closer look at how retail partnerships work, why you should consider utilizing them, and how to establish one that’s mutually beneficial. So, while there’s an overlap between each of their audiences, the two brands aren’t direct competitors, enabling them to give each other a boost in sales and brand awareness.

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MIT Supply Chain

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Companies are trying all manner of ways to rid themselves of bloated inventories at a time when they typically build inventory for the end-of-year holiday season. Companies are trying all manner of ways to rid themselves of bloated inventories at a time when they typically build inventory for the end-of-year holiday season.

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BlueYonder

JANUARY 6, 2020

The ongoing trade war with China, holiday and consumer shopping trends , the increasing importance of social media for driving sales and the impacts of e-commerce on returns and sustainability have all made a splash in retail that will ripple into 2020. Social media advertisements driving sales. Increased focus on returns.

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Intelligent Audit

AUGUST 20, 2021

Dealing with supply chain disruption has been the steady drumbeat in the industry for more than a year. And now, additional port shutdowns in China are undermining the overall flow of goods just as the back-to-school rush winds down and as shippers begin to enter the peak holiday shipping season.

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BlueYonder

AUGUST 5, 2021

To re-cap, the Blue Yonder demand forecasting service looks for relationships between influencing factors, such as weather, price, and season, rather than attempting to layer on top of a demand forecast based on historical sales. Now that the Ever Given’s cargo has finally landed in the UK, there is a lot of uncertainty about to disembark.

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ShipBob

JANUARY 23, 2023

And now, in 2023, ecommerce sales continue to accelerate. High operating costs Thanks to Amazon, the rise of two-day shipping has become the new norm, and marketing fast or free shipping is now a common customer-centric marketing strategy for ecommerce businesses. There are many areas in which last-mile delivery can go awry.

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BlueYonder

JANUARY 6, 2020

The ongoing trade war with China, holiday and consumer shopping trends , the increasing importance of social media for driving sales and the impacts of e-commerce on returns and sustainability have all made a splash in retail that will ripple into 2020. Social media advertisements driving sales. Increased focus on returns.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MAY 20, 2020

According to Jim Stinson of Supply Chain Dive : “XPO informed the Securities and Exchange Commission that it was terminating its review of strategic alternatives, including the possible sale or spin-off of one or more of XPO’s business units.” have vanished per day.”. COVID-19 Puts the Global Supply Chain to the Ultimate Test.

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Zipline Logistics

JULY 13, 2021

While last month’s retail sales declined by 1.3% When compared to 2020 figures, sales were up 28.1%. The NRF now anticipates “that retail sales will now grow between 10.5 The NRF now anticipates “that retail sales will now grow between 10.5 percent and 13.5 percent and 13.5

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 8, 2016

The good news is that I didn’t break any bones skiing during the holiday break. We didn’t spot any that day, but I hear there is snow on the mountains now, so we’ll pack the car and make our way back there again soon. Sales Downshift at Heavy Truck Makers ( WSJ – sub. FedEx expects the deal to close by June.

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