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Ecommerce in 2025: How Data Quality Powers Growth and Customer Satisfaction

Retail TouchPoints

Shipping errors are reduced and checkout is easier, protecting the customers overall experience with your brand. Every country has its own unique address formats, and inconsistencies can lead to costly errors in cross-border shipping.

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Amazon Adding Supply Chain Management Service for Sellers

Independent Retailer

As companies try to get tighter control over the flow of goods from factories to consumers, Amazon recently launched a supply-chain management service to its web services business. . Still, Amazon, which ships 1.6 10 GB of data storage. The causes are not going away anytime soon. Top Amazon FBA Products to Sell Online.

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How to Build a Modern Supply Chain That’s Built to Last

Retail TouchPoints

Retailers are well aware of the limitations of traditional supply chain management tactics. Companies with supply chains that span the globe often struggle with standardizing their processes, partly because different locations use different systems of record. Develop concurrency across your supply chain.

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The four trends defining online retail in 2024

Inside Retail

Thanks to rapid innovations in supply chain management, AI technology and digital marketing, e-commerce is increasingly playing an integral role in the lives of everyday Aussies. In present-day e-commerce, same-day fulfilment and free shipping are often part and parcel, not perks of the experience.

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Want to Cut the Cost of Fast Fulfillment? It All Starts with Inventory Placement

Retail TouchPoints

The problems with getting products to people quickly and cheaply are well-known: consumers want fast fulfillment, which is costly to provide, but they don’t want to pay high (or really any) shipping fees. This is both more complex and more top-of-mind due to ESG [environmental, social and governance]; no one likes to ship air.”

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Turning Inventory Into Cash: How Retailers Can Thrive In A Post-Pandemic World

Retail TouchPoints

In order to understand where inventory should be deployed (or redeployed) to sell quickly, retailers must quickly analyze sales trends in all channels and retail locations, in order to predict customer demand. Demand-sensing capabilities. Integration of COVID-19 infection data from third-party sources.

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Can Nearshoring Prevent the Next Supply Chain Crisis?

Retail TouchPoints

“While we’ve returned to some sense of normalcy, the VUCA [volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous] proposition has become a reality,” said Dr. Thomas Goldsby, Professor and Chair in Logistics in the Supply Chain Management Department of the University of Tennessee. We’re now battle-tested.”

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