Thursday - June 18, 2009
Unlike the Amazons and Targets of the world, smaller e-commerce businesses understandably have limited resources to channel into infrastructure. The past decade of e-commerce has been a story of small companies using online and Internet-delivered services to "act like the big boys." To date, the leveling of the playing field made possible by the Internet has not carried over to physical infrastructure investments like warehousing or shipping. However, all that is changing with Internet-delivered warehousing and order fulfillment.
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Friday - May 29, 2009
Fidelitone Logistics works with large retailers to manage their inventories and ship consumer goods worldwide. Executive VP Mike Schoenfeld recently gave a group of executives from a venture capital firm a tour of the company's operations. They were thinking of the small firms in their portfolios that needed the benefits of a streamlined inventory management and warehouse distribution system.
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Tuesday - May 26, 2009
RFID has been on a bit of a roller coaster ride. It started with a bang a few years ago, when Wal-Mart and the Department of Defense issued their edicts that all suppliers would need to get on the RFID bandwagon within a set time frame. Well, that deadline has come and gone, and uptake has fallen well short of the mark.
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Thursday - May 21, 2009
Recent developments in robotics are promising to reshape supply chain fundamentals. Specifically, robotic devices are improving warehouse operations to a degree
unforeseen only a short while ago, by automating a slew of repetitive, difficult and usually monotonous tasks.
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Tuesday - May 19, 2009
Zappos, online shoe emporium extraordinaire, has been expanding its line of merchandise in recent years -- offering clothes, watches and other jewelry, and even housewares. For the consumer, the shift has appeared effortless -- just more categories to explore on the Web site. Behind the scenes, though, Zappos had to realign its warehouse operations.
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Thursday - April 30, 2009
The declining economy has led to an increased trend toward drop-shipping transactions and has allowed e-tailers to remain competitive while brick-and-mortar stores hedge their bets as they see physical retail sales and profits slide precipitously. By tapping into drop-shipping programs, e-tailers can effortlessly expand product lines to meet shoppers' demands.
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Friday - November 21, 2008
The joke used to be on the U.S. Postal Service. Indeed, jabs about the government's mail system may have driven business to private-sector competitors like United Parcel Service, Federal Express and DHL. That was decades ago; now, it seems, some of the same companies designed to outperform the USPS have attracted complaints about sluggish deliveries and failure to deliver.
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Tuesday - October 28, 2008
As companies evaluate their carbon footprints, supply chains are one area of business that have come under increased scrutiny. Making the complex network of manufacturers, packagers, shippers, wholesalers and retailers greener protects the environment, saves energy, and ultimately reduces costs.
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Thursday - October 16, 2008
Among dreamy startups and salty e-commerce veterans alike, Zappos.com appears to be the golden grail -- certainly one blessed, at least, with heavenly rewards. "Zappos is the Amazon of the shoe business, and its model is extremely difficult to mimic," Gene Alvarez, vice president of research at Gartner -- and former employee of shoe-biz powerhouse, Nine West Group -- told the E-Commerce Times.
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Tuesday - September 16, 2008
There is a near-universal desire among firms to link all aspects of their supply chain -- including the customer front end -- on one platform. However, there are relatively few applications on the market today that address that demand. ModusLink hopes to fill that void with its newly launched e-business suite.
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