If you follow ecommerce-related startups, you can’t deny that micro fulfillment is hot right now.

Is Micro Fulfillment Ready for Big-Time Investment?

Long Live 2-day Ground E-Commerce Distribution

We know that technology is making the world a smaller place.  Today, any e-commerce merchant in virtually any country can sell their products in other countries across the globe, without possessing a physical presence in those countries.

Fulfillment 3PLs: The New Product Managers of Global Commerce

The unabated growth of e-commerce is driving innovation across the supply chain, which is obviously a good thing.  Nevertheless, along with that innovation comes failure, as many of the new start-up supply chain solutions will flounder or fail.

E-Commerce Forward Stocking Micro Fulfillment Solutions

The business of e-commerce, fulfillment and last-mile has hot up significantly in recent years, with the well-known pandemic effect boosting online purchases all over the world. Labour shortages, supply chain disruptions and high energy costs, as well as the pressure to decarbonise, are nonetheless all challenges that the sector needs to grapple with.

Discussing present-day fulfillment challenges with Fulfillment by FHB Group Managing Partner Ľubomír Fogaš

E-commerce merchants in search of fulfillment vendors, do not necessarily look at a fulfillment solution in the context of both the pick & pack process and delivery solution. Sometimes, the solution is integrated and covers both primary functions of the fulfillment process. Other times, the merchant can be left to determine on their own, how they choose to distribute their product and which carriers and services to use once the products are picked and packed.

Best-In-Class E-commerce Order Fulfillment: A Focus on Both Pick & Pack and Shipping

The demise of the retail store model is being overplayed and over exaggerated.  The argument can be made that 15 years of store and retail chain closings is not just about consumers migrating in mass over to the e-commerce sales channel.  It can also be argued that many legacy model retail stores are failing because they deserved to fail by not responding to change in the retail marketplace and adjusting to different consumer buying habits. It was inevitable that retail had to shrink, but retail is not going away, and nor is the fulfillment model that supports the retail store.

Multiple sales channels and one 3PL: pallet, parcel or both?

The pandemic has impacted nearly all parts of the global supply chain and e-commerce fulfillment is not immune to the condition.  Covid-19-driven consumer behavioral change has resulted in staggering e-commerce growth, which in turn, is putting tremendous pressure on e-commerce fulfillment centers (FCs).

The great e-commerce fulfillment center squeeze

The decision to outsource order fulfillment is a critical one for many growing e-commerce operations. Businesses have many order fulfillment service provider (SP) options. Each SP has a unique service offering and ways of conducting business. The steps below will help guide your decision-making process so your ecommerce company can outsource order fulfillment profitably and in line with customer needs and expectations.

23 Factors to Consider When Deciding to Outsource Order Fulfillment

Well-known British retailer Marks and Spencer (M&S) <a href="https://corporate.marksandspencer.com/media/press-releases/5ff7017fc6fe1bc26cb21d12/half-year-results-for-26-weeks-ended-2-october-2021" target="_blank" rel="noopener">has revealed how its operating costs over a recent 6 month period amounted to £13 million as a result of Brexit</a>. The company has also said the current UK-EU border arrangements mean it shall source more goods for its Irish stores locally.