Allow me to take a trip back in time, about 50 years back to be exact, to help put into perspective how consumers transit time expectations have changed. 

Ecommerce Transit Times: Faster is Better… Right?

Runaway Inflation? Rising Fuel Costs? No Problem!

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?

The 3PL Business Model Is Ready for Last Mile

The e-commerce phenomenon has changed the world of fulfillment, driving growth and consolidation throughout the industry. The legacy 3PL service provider, once focused on supporting B2B distribution via an LTL transportation model, has had to morph into a B2C service provider that supports parcel-based, residential delivery solutions.

Growth and Consolidation Is Running Rampant in E-Commerce Order Fulfilment

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

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.

Dean Maciuba