Comprehensive review of the Metapack Home Delivery Conference 2012 and Sir Terry Leahy’s speech. Online shoppers are 47% more likely to buy when they know who the carrier is. State your carriers upfront on your website to increase conversion. Returns discussed, with women the worst offenders sending back 42% of clothes items. This does not shock me. My [...]
Android inventory software in the warehouse interests us…web-based inventory software for warehouse management is what we do! If you own your ecommerce company, then you are likely to be looking to keep track of all that money you have tied up in stock. Using inventory software enables you to know exactly what stock is where. [...]
Online retailers are beginning to gear up for this year’s Christmas shopping. Most will be expecting to be picking, packing and shipping more orders than ever before and it will fall on the warehouse fulfilment team and warehouse systems to bear the load. For most, this will mean hiring more warehouse workers. Third-party logistics companies [...]
Ouch. According to the Guardian newspaper in the UK, RIM, Research in Motion, apparently has inventory of $216m of its Playbooks and is having trouble shifting them. How could RIM get it so wrong? I immediately think of our ecommerce customers and their inventory. Are they less at risk because they sell the majority of [...]
We’ve all seen items on the clearance shelf in the supermarket. They are expiring that day. The retailer wants rid of them at any price. If not, they will only be binned. DEFRA (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) has said the ‘sell by’ and ‘display until’ markings on items will be phased out. [...]
