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Is Your Business Ready for a Spike in Customer Returns?

What would you do if you knew your business was going to face a loss of as much as nine percent of bottom line sales? Hopefully, you would try to avoid calamity by putting steps in place to manage the situation with a customer-friendly returns management program.

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Coming Soon to America: Chinese-Branded Merchandise

Chinese brands are aiming for a hefty slice of the U.S. consumer market. And they're liable to succeed a lot more quickly than you might think.

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Pool Distribution Slashes Distribution Costs for Candy Manufacturer

Challenge: A major marketer of candy and entertainment products has a national customer base but lacked the volume to ship customer orders in full truckloads from its East Coast facilities. The challenge: bring down freight costs to compete in a hyper-competitive market.

Grocery Cooperative Improves Distribution to Member Supermarket Chains

Challenge: A large retail grocery cooperative depends on outsourced logistics services to meet the needs of its member-owners - grocery retail chains - for fast, accurate and efficient distribution.

Newgistics Announces E-Commerce App, Partnership and Acquisition

Newgistics Inc. has developed new electronic-commerce software based on hybris, an SAP company and commerce platform provider.

Hurricane Sandy Makes Port Jersey Logistics Hurry Up and Wait

Challenge: As hurricane season approaches, Port Jersey Logistics recalls a project impacted by Hurricane Sandy. By mid-2012, an Israel-based kosher foods exporter had outgrown its East Coast 3PL provider. Furthermore, its shipments would soon double during autumn's peak season. Transitioning several products to PJL was underway when, on October 29, the worst natural disaster in NJ history changed everything.

Inventory optimization drives 26% sales growth through supply chain synchronization

Challenge: A beverage bottler needed to reduce Out of Stocks and enable better inventory turnover. Additionally, a Vendor Managed Inventory solution was needed to provide KPI's on internal and client stock levels, demand planning, event management and order administration.

Made4net WMS Boosts Growth and Performance for Retailer Distribution Centers

Challenge: Being a fast growing grocery chain Made4net's customer must keep its produce and organic products on the move, to keep it fresh and at the highest quality. Existing manual system proved to be cumbersome as volume increased due to the company's growth.

Utilizing Drop Shipping Industry for U.K. Retail Sector

Businesses operating in the retail sector should consider drop-shipping as a part of their supply chain and multichannel strategy this year.

Move Over, 3D Printing - 4D Printing Is About to Shake Up Manufacturing

If you haven't yet gotten used to the idea that 3D printing is playing an important role in the supply chain, you'd better hurry up. 4D printing is about to change today's manufacturing by adding transformation capabilities to 3D-printed objects on an industrial scale.

Electronic Gadgets to Cause Back-to-School Shopping to Significantly Top 2012 Figures

Consumer electronics purchases are driving up this year's total average back-to-school shopping total by 26 percent, according to the American Express Spending & Saving Tracker.

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E-commerce Field Said to Lure Supply Chain Professionals from Traditional Retail Sector

The growth of e-commerce is causing a "headache" for the retail sector because it is sucking up supply chain professionals, according to a report. The Talent Spotlight, produced by recruiter Badenoch and Clark, said talent is "flocking" to e-commerce firms and leaving the wider retail sector with tough-to-fill vacancies.

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