E-commerce

E-commerce retail sales are expected to continue to grow at double-digit growth rates during 2016-2022, say economists for IHS Global Insight.

New trends and solutions in the e-tail sector are pushing companies to be smarter about how they approach their warehouse, DC, wholesale, store and e-commerce business.

Low-cost, retail-ready and e-commerce packaging to drive demand to nearly 260 billion square meters in 2019.

Newsroom Notes provides a few of the key stories, trends, and themes of 2015, a year that was far from dull in the supply chain, logistics, and freight transportation sectors.

Packaging purchasers rank performance and identify the categories that are of higher importance.

Logistics specialist acquires application integrator for $29.5 million to strengthen e-commerce fulfillment capabilities.

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Included in these changes are tripling the size of the facility and nearly doubling its package processing rates. And it added that this project, which is expected to cost around $300 million, is projected to be “substantially completed” by 2018. UPS also plans to add more than full- and part-time 300 jobs at this location, with recruitment kicking off in 2017.

With the days falling off the calendar leading up to the holiday season, the ongoing influence and emergence of e-commerce on supply chain management shows no signs of stopping. That was a major takeaway of a keynote speech given by Henry Maier, president and CEO of FedEx Ground at the University of Rhode Island’s Supply Chain Management Forum earlier this week.

Logistics Management Group News Editor Jeff Berman recently caught up with Maria Haggerty, CEO at Dotcom Distribution, an Edison, New Jersey-based provider of fulfillment and logistics services for premium e-retailers about the many facets of e-commerce and supply chain- and logistics-related impacts they have, with a specific focus on Peak Season and holiday deliveries within the e-commerce supply chain.

Hackett observed in the new report that China’s economy has lost steam, with actual growth falling short of targeted rates, while the United States most recent second quarter GDP reading at 3.7 percent outpaced expected targets, even though it was negatively impacted by gains in manufacturing and retail inventories.

Company's fourth location intended to tap large technical labor pool.

Companies to collaborate on a complementary, end-to-end platform to meet the demands of the modern distribution center.

eBay Enterprise’s Kentucky distribution campus puts a premium on flexible processes and absolute speed to the customer for e-commerce fulfillment.

Tilt tray sortation, RF picking and a light-directed put wall are the tools that speed orders out the door at eBay Enterprise’s Kentucky fulfillment centers.