Fulfillment

AEO is taking a new approach to fulfillment, especially e-fulfillment, inside and outside the four walls of its distribution centers. The focus is on speed.

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.

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

Though the e-commerce boom has slowed compared to the explosion seen in 2020, online retail continues to experience steady growth year-over-year.

As parcel shipping rates continue to rise, shippers can alter fulfillment strategies to compensate for higher shipping costs.

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.

In another move focused on taking steps to continue to expand its ongoing e-commerce growth and support its supply chain network, global retail giant Walmart said earlier this week it will build a new southern Pennsylvania-based fulfillment center. The new 1.8 million square-foot (MSF) facility, which is expected to be open this Spring, will be based in Shippensburg, Penn. at 2281 United Drive, with Walmart saying it is expected to bring up to 600 full-time jobs.

Austin, Texas-based E2open, a network-based provider of cloud-based, mission-critical, end-to-end supply chain management platform services, saying it has bought Rolling Meadows, Ill.-based Logistyx Technologies, a provider of global parcel and e-commerce shipping and fulfillment technology services, for $185 million.

In this article, we’ll discuss some of the benefits and drawbacks associated with each fulfillment model to help you make an informed decision for your expanding business.

Learn more about how autonomous mobile robots are the cost-effective and flexible solution for eCommerce fulfillment.

Discover how eCommerce leaders are using Robotic Automation to increase capacity and meet escalating consumer expectations despite labor shortages.

Through a comparison of shuttle technology, discover the key benefits a roaming shuttle will provide to your order fulfillment and daily operations.

Amid shortages and disruptions, e-commerce orders are on fire at the same time as brick-and-mortar sales are heating up. Retailers are looking to technology and innovative strategies to keep up.

Walmart officials explained that the company’s fulfillment centers are a key cog in the company's supply chain and logistics operations and are geared towards storing millions of items that are picked, packed, and shipped directly to customers as soon as the next day.

Taking steps to expand its e-fulfillment network, Miami-based freight transportation and logistics services provider Ryder System Inc. said earlier this week it entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Industry City, Calif.-based omnichannel fulfillment and logistics services provider Whiplash.