LEGACY Supply Chain Services

The deal, if completed, will give Walmart a substantial foothold in an emerging market of 1.3 billion people, and while the Arkansas-based company is the world’s largest retailer, it has struggled against Amazon as consumers migrate to online commerce, India is the next big potential prize after the U.S. and China.

The selection of LEGACY Supply Chain Services for the Sam’s Club Import DC of the Year Award recognizes LEGACY’s overall best-in-network performance compared to Sam’s Club operational indicators.

While last mile carriers receive much of the attention, the traditional modal heavyweights are in charge of connecting the growing web of facilities that enable e-commerce, today, all modes, as well as freight intermediaries, must be poised for growth and flexible enough to keep evolving.

3PLs can provide cost savings that businesses can’t achieve on their own while still maintaining an exacting level of service. Because logistics is a 3PLs core mission, they make it their business to do it the best they can, day-in and dayout.

We know ecommerce is reshaping the logistics landscape, but what are the technologies managers can leverage to meet evolving requirements and shifting operational constraints? We’ve rounded up insights from leading experts to share tools that are available now as well as what’s on the horizon.

Walmart is getting bruised in its battle with online leader Amazon, and the world's largest retailer yesterday reported a smaller-than-expected fourth-quarter profit as it wrestled with slower ecommerce sales during the busiest time of the year.

In what would be one of its biggest overseas deals, the U.S. retailer is looking at buying new and existing shares in Flipkart, a direct challenge to Amazon in Asia’s third-largest economy.

Amazon is growing fast, and so are the costs of getting people the products they order from the online ecommerce retailer, and as time goes by, Amazon has to spend a higher percentage of its net sales on staffing, operations, and shipping.

This paper describes in detail the Jagged Peak ACES model and how it can be used as a methodology for measuring each element of the order lifecycle and its impact on customer experience.

If brands can give customers a reason to buy directly from them - and provide adequate fulfillment - direct sales can be a successful channel.

Jagged Peak, Inc., a subsidiary of Singapore Post Limited and a leading provider of enterprise software and global end-to-end ecommerce solutions, has expanded its FlexNet fulfillment network in the U.S. and Canada with LEGACY Supply Chain Services.

To better focus on their core competencies, more and more manufacturers recognize that outsourcing is an effective and economical way to manage their direct-to-customer (D2C) eCommerce channel.

Walmart is marrying the power of the Walmart App with its brick-and-mortar retail stores and hoping to slash returns from what used to take roughly 5 minutes to 30 seconds.

Carriers will have some hard decisions for the remainder of 2017, they must continue to drive down costs through effective post-merger integration and fleet rationalization to bring supply and demand into balance, and continuously optimize networks to make them more efficient.

As we head into the 2017 peak shipping season, the global ocean transportation market has stabilized, carriers are in a better position financially and the economy is trending upward, however, each year presents unique challenges to shippers looking to optimize ocean transportation spend while having access to the capacity needed to meet consumer demand.