Ecommerce

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.

An in-depth look at holiday fulfillment with ideas for optimizing operations, improving service levels and controlling costs.

This paper outlines the most significant challenges distribution centers are facing and conveys creative solutions to meet the growing demand for information technology and value-added services.

Dave Emerson, Group Sales and Marketing Director at SEKO Logistics, provides some handy hints for retailers, e-tailers and brand owners who are looking to expand their eCommerce presence into new territories.

Mobile payments and their role in omni-channel engagement, sales, and loyalty strategies represent a largely untapped but huge opportunity.

Walmart has taken full ownership of Chinese e-commerce firm Yihaodian.com, buying out the 49 percent stake that it did not already own to accelerate its push into China's online retail market.

In order for Jet’s e-commerce business model to work, the company has to sell twenty billion dollars’ worth of items annually, a high threshold for a startup in a crowded field dominated by a single big corporation.

The rise of e-commerce, more frequent promotions, and competitive service-level agreements are creating more peak periods than ever in the DC, so here’s a look at five strategies companies are using to handle peak demand.

Today is Amazon Prime Day, a one-day shopping event, with more deals than Black Friday for Prime members who can shop exclusive deals from electronics, toys, video games, movies, clothing, patio, lawn and garden, sports and outdoor items and more.

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.

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.

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.

According to research by CIO Journal research Walmart is raiding eBay’s technical workforce in order to develop its own cloud based open source e-commerce platform.

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.

The millennial generation is much less loyal to legacy brands than generations past, and data shows consumers are hungrier for better, faster and more transparent shipping and delivery services, and they don’t much care who provides it.