A cool headquarters resembling Silicon Valley dot coms, I was at Brightpearl this week to finalise off an exciting new development collaboration. Simple, if you have a warehouse or stores with inventory in and are using Brightpearl, we have been working on integrating our warehouse management software into their business system for stock control. So [...]
Last week, I dropped by the Home Delivery Conference in London, hosted by MetaPack. As we all know, a day out of the office at an event can be painful, especially if content is weak. Fortunately, the content of this MetaPack event for online retailers and ecommerce companies was rammed full of the good stuff, [...]
Mispicks are an unnecessary warehouse cost for e-commerce Mispicks cost e-commerce businesses in multiple ways. It is not enough to simply measure the number of mispicks, what e-commerce businesses should really be interested in is the total cost that results from them. Despite mispicks increasing e-commerce operating costs, 90% of the warehouses that I see [...]
ASOS has once again popped up in my life, this time in an article in the Daily Telegraph, with the header ‘Why no one can compete with ASOS’. ASOS certainly are one of the top online retailers for fashion, but why are they so great and what should other online retailers do to give them [...]
My father used to arrive home after work with his Accountancy Age newspaper, occasionally excited by the content within. I thought, how could this possibly be? 15 years on and I unashamedly had that feeling for the first time when I read about Sage One, the online accounting software, that Sage has just released. There [...]
