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North Carolina Welcomes Amazon’s Newest Mega-Warehouse
Amazon unveiled its newest warehouse in North Carolina, a 620,000-square-foot facility that will provide 1,000 new jobs to the area.
The Two Most Important Factors in Last-Mile Delivery
A new Microsoft report on last-mile delivery reveals that speed and cost are the two most important factors, as customer satisfaction takes a backseat,
UPS Announces Plans to Close Around 200 US Facilities
UPS will invest $9 billion in automation, targeting efficiency and savings, while closing 200 U.S. facilities.
Shein To Sell Supply Chain Infrastructure To Outside Brands
Fashion retailer Shein says it plans to make its supply chain infrastructure and technology available to other brands.

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Ecommerce and Packaging, From All Angles
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E-commerce News

Intelligent Enterprise Robotics for Ecommerce
In this ecommerce solution guide, we take a deep dive into how to improve sortation throughput by up to 3X without additional labor, additionally, we provide 3 reasons retailers need robotic product sortation in fulfillment warehouses.

Supply Chain Ecommerce Logistics Leader Series
Co-written by Adrian Gonzalez, president of Adelante SCM, and Mike Glodziak, president & CEO of LEGACY Supply Chain Services, this ecommerce logistics leader series describes how you can get to market faster, by leveraging your existing network, resources, and relationships to their fullest potential as well as how you can use logistics as a competitive weapon.

How OEMs Can Use Ecommerce Platforms without Compromising Their Quality Assurance Standards
In this white paper, we discuss why electronics OEMs, e-commerce represents have a tremendous opportunity, and why many online marketplaces are struggling with counterfeit product problems, however, companies can enjoy the benefits of digitalization without compromising their standards.

2021 Ecommerce Research Series: Micro-Fulfillment and Last Mile Study
This Quarterly Research Series will help managers understand the effects and impacts ecommerce is having on micro fulfillment and the last mile.

Industry Experts Discuss Technology Trends & Solutions for Efficient Ecommerce Logistics
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 in Talks to Buy More Than 40 Percent of Indian Ecommerce Company Flipkart
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.

E-Commerce Expansion Fuels Robust Returns with National Returns Day Expected to Hit New Record
In December, more than 1 million returns occurred each day before Christmas, and today's National Returns Day, 1.4 million returns are expected, a fifth consecutive annual record, up 8% from prior year.

Walmart’s Headaches from Competing With Amazon
Walmart has thousands of stores that sell hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of goods, and it's particularly strong in suburban and rural areas and among low- and middle-income consumers, but it’s playing catch-up with online retailer Amazon, who is on a collision course with Walmart to try to be the predominant seller of pretty much everything you buy.

Study Finds Traditional Industrial Distributor Model Faces Mounting Risks
Companies must adapt amid rapid change fueled chiefly by millennials and a shift to e-marketplaces; a surge of purchases coming directly from manufacturers and e-marketplaces, bypassing distributors.

Walmart Challenges Amazon’s Prime Day with 5 Days of Free Online Shipping
The battle between these two retail giants is heating up with Walmart countering the e-commerce giant with its own new promotion the day before Amazon's Prime Day: free shipping with no minimum purchase on all online orders.

U.S. Businesses Prepare for Rising Shipping Rates
Higher costs, growing complexity and increasing volume of sending prompt businesses to optimize shipping operations.

Macy’s Struggles in Ecommerce Omni-Channel Era
With the age of online e-commerce, a drop in international tourism, and declining traffic in many malls, Macy's cut its full-year forecast raising wide concerns about the retail sector's financial health.

Retail Enterprise Commerce Predictions for 2016
Demandware, an industry-leading provider of enterprise cloud commerce solutions, and who has used its experience in advising some of the world’s largest retailers help grow their business, predicts where retail is headed in 2016.

UPS Invests to Learn About Direct-to-Consumer Online Sales
United Parcel Service Inc. is investing in tech startup Ally Commerce which that allows brand manufacturers to set up websites and sell directly to consumers, bypassing the middlemen.

Countdown: World’s Largest U.S. Ecommerce Giant verses World’s Largest U.S. Retailer
How do Wal-Mart and Amazon really stack up next to one another? Here's a brief breakdown (infographic) of the two companies and how they compare.

Walmart, Amazon Deal Day Duel
In case it wasn’t already perfectly obvious that Walmart is gunning for Amazon, the Bentonville, Ark. giant just kicked up its e-tailing competition.

2015 is Getting an Extra Second and that Could Be Problematic for The Internet
Today, June 30th 2015, at precisely 23:59:59, the world’s atomic clocks will pause for a single second, or, to be more precise, they’ll change to the uncharted time of 23:59:60 - before ticking over to the more worldly hour of 00:00:00 on the morning of July 1st, 2015.

Infographic: The Next Generation of Commerce
The next generation of commerce will be more than the sum of its parts, and marketers need to keep a holistic strategy in mind that takes into account the full consumer experience and how consumers want to see branded content, engage with and even purchase and receive products from brands.

Leaked Site Reveals Walmart’s Answer to Amazon Prime -“ShippingPass”
A leaked internal link on Walmart.com accidentally unveiled more details regarding the retailer’s forthcoming three-day shipping service which aims to challenge Amazon Prime.

Will Google’s E-Commerce ‘Buy Buttons’ Strategy Outsell Amazon (Walmart)?
Google will add ‘buy buttons' to its search results for mobile users, establishing it as a retailer rather than simply a provider of link information driving users to retail sites.


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SPS Commerce
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Enjoy Technology
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Custora
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Digi-Key
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Ramco Systems
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Extensiv
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DSI
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