Your October 2014 Operations + Fulfillment Guide

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Click here to view Share this!                 Special Report Editor's Note Retailers are bracing themselves for the biggest ecommerce holiday season ever. But will recipients get their Christmas gifts on time? Carriers’ holiday plans should no doubt increase its shippers’ confidence this season. But the shippers, too, need to be partners in making the holiday season a success. Operations & Fulfillment Major tactical areas like handling holiday season demand and related labor management issues, as implementing omnichannel commerce and dealing with rapid changes in customer contact centers were addressed be a “power panel” of retail operations executives at Multichannel Merchant’s 2014 Operations Summit. Order Management Is it time to replace or upgrade your existing order management system? This comprehensive report of technology providers will help you compare and contrast various order management systems, and help guide your decision. Warehouse Is a warehouse management system right for your multichannel business? Two major aspects of managing warehousing are strengths of WMS in general: tracking and management of labor in the warehouse processes and management of the four-walls inventory functions. Global The MCM Outlook 2014 survey results show that just 8.75% of orders placed with U.S.-based merchants in 2013 came from outside the U.S. So what should U.S.-based merchants do to expand their global traffic? The solution is not the same from merchant to merchant, as each individual merchant needs to consider several factors . Warehouse Management Managing a multichannel warehouse is a fairly easy thing. All you have to do is manage the labor, the freight and the inventory. And from there, a thousand other factors assault you. Shipping A number of current research findings all point to the fact that consumers have been “primed” to expect that things they order online will be sent quickly, cheaply and when and where they want it.	Multichannel Merchant magazine is also available in print—click here.
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