E-Commerce Trends for the Holiday Season 2021 In Part III of our e-commerce holiday shopping trends series we are going to wrap up by providing recommendations and predictions. Perhaps no other trend is more important than early shopping syndrome. Because of worldwide supply chain issues, due to thousands of shipping containers waiting at ports, retail [...]
More E-Commerce Shopping Trends for the 2021 Holiday Season Earlier, in part one of our holiday shopping trends series, online reviews and personalization topped the list, now let's look at more buyer behaviors to help your business grow. Ostensibly, online stores with built-in SEO and top-of-the-market shopping carts should provide the best platform fo re-commerce [...]
Expect Record Sales Regardless of Inventory and Supply Chain Worries In the last series of blogs we have been watching the news as reports of container ships, all around the world, stall within miles of their port destinations. Ecommerce merchants and online retailers full of supply chains and inventory worries made plans for the worse. However, [...]
How the Container Ship Crisis is Affecting E-Commerce Order Fulfillment The Port of Singapore, shown in this post's image, is the second largest in the world according to Ship Technology. Ahead is the Port of Shanghai with only the Port of Rotterdam, Europe's largest, cracking the top-ten non-asian shipping operations in the world. As a [...]
Are You Having Ecommerce Fulfillment Problems? Perhaps you are like most online business owners and rely on external vendors for many stages of your supply chain. Ecommerce fulfillment problems arise because of several factors and in this blog we look at identifying the most frequent challenges. Perhaps you are spending time reading about changes in policy [...]
Global supply chains disrupted as record-breaking queues of container ships are stalled outside major ports A myriad of container ships, like the one pictured above, remain stranded outside American ports. Accordingly, the shipping disruption continues to shake global supply chains and attracts international news. Moreover, cargo vessels contain goods that millions of consumers rely on from their [...]
Crisis at Sea: Container Ships disrupt Supply Chains Across America Retailers around the world may no longer ignore the global container ship and supply chain disruption. In a recent article, Esquire magazine cites an "ongoing traffic jam of huge ships off the California coast." The article estimates hundreds of miles of ships are stranded at [...]
Beauty Products Lead the Way for Online Retail Shopping As we close in on the end of the second decade of the new millennium, it’s apropos to look back a few years at the growth of e-commerce, beauty products and fulfillment service companies. Specifically, a few thoughts about e-commerce and fulfillment projections. According to research [...]
Fifth-party logistics (5PL) Fulfillment Services While many organizations may ask what are fifth-party logistics (5PL), only larger companies may find their cost justified. A 5PL, fifth-party logistics, firm is a resource for companies to outsource all supply chain and fulfillment services. In fact, a 5PL company looks to solve their client's logistics needs through large networks [...]
3PL, 4PL and LLP Fulfillment Services In an earlier post from the MyFulfillment Company Blog we discussed the difference between 3PL (third party logistics) and 4PL logistics. Here, we will discuss another option for business owners looking to scale up and increase efficiencies, LLP (lead logistics provider) fulfillment services. While researching this piece we came across [...]