E-Commerce/Omni-Channel

Case Study

NorthShore Care Supply Doubles Output With AMRs, Voice Picking

August 4, 2021

A surge in demand during the COVID-19 pandemic prompted NorthShore Care Supply to seek a means of automating workflows within the warehouse.

Case Study

Laura Canada Embraces the Omnichannel With New Order Management System

August 4, 2021

SupplyChainBrain

The Canadian women’s fashion retailer realizes a 25% increase in sales after implementing new technology for managing orders across channels.

Case Study

Crocs Seizes On Pandemic Popularity With Army of Fulfillment Bots

August 4, 2021

SupplyChainBrain

When e-commerce sales boomed during the COVID-19 pandemic, footwear brand Crocs Inc. looked to warehouse automation for help.

Case Study

Workwear Specialist Invests in a Highly Automated Omnichannel DC

August 4, 2021

SupplyChainBrain

Workwear manufacturer Engelberg Strauss seeks to create a distribution center that can serve all channels from a single location.

CASE STUDY

From Dog Food to Kayaks: Retailer Tractor Supply Co. Embraces Same-Day Delivery

August 4, 2021

Robert J. Bowman, SupplyChainBrain

The pandemic accelerated a program by Tractor Supply Co. to jump into home delivery with a fleet of crowdsourced drivers.

CASE STUDY

A Fulfillment Startup Embraces WMS in the Cloud — Just in Time for COVID-19

August 4, 2021

Robert J. Bowman, SupplyChainBrain

Resurge, a new provider of warehousing and order-fulfillment services, needed a WMS that would allow it to grow quickly — but it couldn’t have anticipated how fast growth would come with the arrival of the pandemic.

The Winners and Losers in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill

August 3, 2021

Bloomberg

A Senate plan to spend $550 billion on U.S. infrastructure stands to benefit industries heavily dependent on transportation, with companies including Amazon.com Inc., FedEx Corp. and Comcast Corp. among the biggest winners.

What We've Learned From Retailers Adopting Micro-Fulfillment Centers

July 29, 2021

Robert Nilsson, SCB Contributor

Today’s micro-fulfillment centers are taking multiple forms — including in-store, hub-and-spoke and dark store — and each comes with unique advantages and challenges.

U.S.-China Trade Booms as If Virus, Tariffs Never Happened

July 23, 2021

Bloomberg

China and the U.S. are shipping goods to each other at the briskest pace in years, making the world’s largest bilateral trade relationship look as if the protracted tariff war and pandemic never happened.

Startup Couriers Snatch Toehold in Shake-Up of the FedEx Era

July 22, 2021

Bloomberg

Surging e-commerce is generating more package deliveries than giant couriers can handle, but the logjam is spawning startups with new ways of speeding deliveries.

E-Commerce/Omni-Channel

The latest supply-chain news, analysis, trends and tools for executives in the e-commerce/omnichannel industry — which consists of companies engaged in internet retailing, including those with auxiliary brick-and-mortar stores. Learn how e-commerce/omnichannel companies and their suppliers around the world are managing the flow of products across all channels of the enterprise. Experts sound off on forecasting and demand planning, supply-chain visibility, logistics outsourcing, inventory optimization, transportation management, warehouse management, supply-chain security, corporate social responsibility and more.