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How Do You Manage Inventory When Multiple Channels Are Involved?
If you are selling across multiple channels, managing inventory and shipping can be a real challenge—unless your 3PL partner has invested in the right kind of technology. More and more, merchants are...
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The Secret to Managing Inventory is Never Running Out
Being out of stock is one of the worst positions to be in, from an inventory management perspective. Anticipating this situation when stock is low, and then triggering the right actions, helps keeps...
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5 Myths About 3PLs Exposed
Every year, a significant number of organizations plan to move their logistics and fulfillment operations in-house. One study of this phenomenon found that, on average, 35% of outsourcing companies...
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How 3PLs Are Helping Provide Visibility for Shippers
Here’s a little dose of honesty for you: Visibility is a good thing. But like so many other positive trends in business, the term has become overused. People are now asking for greater visibility...
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How to Creatively Avoid Backorders if You Sell Online
Let me just say it: Backorders really are the bane of eCommerce. Here’s why. Suppose a customer orders an item, and you happen to be out of the item. It is on back order. Now you might have to explain...
View ArticleDoing Business with FDA-Regulated Products
Do you sell, or plan on selling, products that are regulated by the FDA? If you sell anything meant to be consumed internally by a person or a pet, then the answer is probably “yes.” The FDA regulates...
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Outsourcing to a 3PL, Scalability, and the “Goldilocks” Problem
Can a business be too big to outsource to a 3PL? Or too small? Technically, yes. This is what you might call the “Goldilocks” problem: A lot of organizations don’t even consider using a 3PL because...
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Should Your Vendors Be Specialists, or Comprehensive Providers? Why You Might...
There is a lot of blurring of traditional lines of business these days. Web designers are advertising content, SEO, and more; tech companies are selling themselves as eCommerce experts; marketing...
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Kitting 101: What Retailers Need to Know, and How to Find a 3PL to Do It
One of the secret weapons that a 3PL, and thus a retailer using a 3PL, has at its disposal is the ability to put items together in kits. The process of doing so is called “kitting,” and it is usually...
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Multi-Channel is Here. Be Prepared.
The signs are everywhere: Retailers are living, more and more, in a world where managing multiple channels is critical for meeting customer expectations while reining in costs, especially when it...
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