E-commerce

Distributed order management software centers on fulfillment rules and order routing logic, but DOM can also expose promise dates and shipping options with integration to front end e-commerce systems. Understanding the power of DOM’s enterprise view of inventory, its integration mechanisms and its dynamic rules engines are part of effective distributed order fulfillment.

Entitled the “DHL 2022 Mid-Year SME Survey,” the survey’s findings are based on feedback from more than 4,000 United States-based SMEs, including DHL customers.

Is your 3PL warehouse under pressure to diversify for ecommerce fulfillment?

Learn what consumers want out of e-commerce today and provides achievable strategies retailers can implement to meet those demands.

Logistics Management Group News Editor Jeff Berman recently caught up with Doug Waggoner, CEO of Chicago-based 3PL Echo Global Logistics. Waggoner offered up insights on a whole host of topics, including: inflation; rates and capacity; and M&A, among others.

Yellow, which controls 10% of the $46 billion less-than-truckload (LTL) marketplace, narrowed its loss in first quarter to $27.5 million from $63.3 million in the year-ago first quarter. That came on operating revenue of $1.26 billion, compared with $1.198 billion in the year-ago first quarter.

United States-bound retail container import volumes are seeing strong spring volumes, setting a new record in the process, as retailers focus on bringing in merchandise ahead of increasing costs and supply chain issues, according to the new edition of the Port Tracker report, which was issued late last week by the National Retail Federation (NRF) and maritime consultancy Hackett Associates.

Ecommerce growth has transformed the order fulfillment landscape. This research-based report explores how retailers and brands are solving top operational challenges involving space, labor, technology, shipping and more.

The national vacancy rate, despite an influx of new deliveries, heading down, for the sixth consecutive quarter, from 3.8% to 3.4%, and the average asking rent increased to $7.62 per square-foot (p.s.f.), up 7% compared to the fourth quarter, marking the largest quarter-over-quarter increase going back to at least 2000.

GXO reported that first quarter revenue saw a 14% annual gain, to $2.1 billion. Net income came in at $38 million, for a 44.8% annual gain, and operating income—at $37 million—was up 19% annually. Adjusted EBITDA, for the quarter, was $155 million, for a 15% annual gain.

A new Peerless Research Group report takes an inside look at how companies are investing in robotics, how they’re putting the systems to use, and what their future robotics plans include.

Micro-fulfillment is moving forward, but at a slower pace than previously forecast. Slowing e-commerce sales and achieving an ROI are two factors.

Logistics Management Group News Editor Jeff Berman recently caught up with global trade economist Dr. Walter Kemmsies, president of The Kemmsies Group, a provider of industrial and logistics real estate brokerage and consulting services. Kemmsies provided Berman with a wide-ranging overview of various aspects of the global supply chain, including: the Russia-Ukraine conflict; how to deal with China, supply chain operations, and oil and fuel prices, among others.

The March inflation figure issued yesterday in the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Consumer Price Index (CPI) showed yet another new high, rising 8.5% annually, and marking its biggest percentage gain going back to 1981. If this trend had not already been occurring then, yes, it would be surprising or cause some sort of head-fake, but that is not the case, as it is something we have been seeing, and dealing with for a while now. What’s more, the March tally...

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