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Online commerce is growing at an exponential rate. According to Forrester’s recent State of Online Retailing report, web retailers experienced 28 percent year-over-year growth in 2012. Combined with the fact that digital consumers spent $1.46 billion on Cyber Monday (a new single-day record), last year’s steep growth curve is a bellwether of another good year … Continued
eMarketplace is a platform to support the creation of global ecommerce networks by industry groups, cooperatives, and trade associations. Advanced capabilities include business to business (B2B), business to consumers (B2C), multi-language, multi-currency, international banking, country postal carriers, harmonized tariff codes,…
Orders can be received from businesses (B2B), consumers (B2C), or a mix of both, depending on the products. Offers and pricing may be done via catalogs, websites, or broadcast network advertisements. Order Management Iggnition’s integrated order management system encompasses these…
Inventory management is a process for managing and locating objects or materials. It often relies upon barcode and radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags to provide automatic identification of inventory objects. In an academic study performed at Wal-Mart, RFID reduced out-of-stocks by 30 percent for products selling between 0.1 and 15 units a day. Inventory objects could … Continued
Order delivery can be one of the most stressful parts of an online transaction. The customer has already paid for a product, but does not actually have it in hand. And the retailer – devoted to excellent customer service – has no control over the carrier. In spite of this, there are some commonsense steps … Continued
Quality assurance (QA) is a way of testing and checking the products so that the items and groups of items are what they should be. It is very important to have multiple quality control points: QA at receiving and during…
Cross-docking is a practice in logistics of unloading materials from an incoming semi-trailer truck or railroad car and loading these materials directly into outbound trucks, trailers, or rail cars, with little or no storage in between. This may be done…
A warehouse management system (WMS) is a key part of the supply chain and primarily aims to control the movement and storage of materials within a warehouse and process the associated transactions, including shipping, receiving, putaway and picking. The systems also direct and optimize stock putaway based on real-time information about the status of inventory … Continued
Business often focuses on the cycle that culminates in delivering goods to a customer. But what happens after goods are delivered? Enter the world of “reverse logistics.” Reverse Logistics Reverse logistics is the collection of all processes that come into play for goods that move in the reverse direction, i.e., from the customer to the … Continued
Order fulfillment requires multiple steps in a sequential process like sourcing, manufacturing, backorder management, pick and pack, ship and associated customer communications. Order fulfillment is in the most general sense the complete process from point of sales inquiry to delivery…
Multichannel orders can be received from businesses, consumers in physical stores, eCommerce websites, affiliated businesses, etc. Iggnition’s capabilities include order entry, customers, accounts, stock availability, profiling, sourcing, planning, back order, grouping, planning, cartonization, picking, replenishment, value-added processing, packaging, quality control,…
Typically there are some degrees of automation within a warehouse. For examples, pallets and product move on a system of automated conveyors, cranes and automated storage and retrieval systems (ARSR) coordinated by programmable logic controllers and computers running logistics automation…
Order fulfillment requires multiple steps in a sequential process like sourcing, manufacturing, backorder management, pick and pack, ship and associated customer communications. Order fulfillment is in the most general sense the complete process from point of sales inquiry to delivery…
Connect Once – Sell Everywhere. Integrate to Iggnition’s private network and own the ability to rapidly expand sales through online channels, stores, malls, and marketplaces, like Amazon, Alibaba, eBay, Buy, and Facebook. Capabilities include standard interfaces to eCommerce portals and business systems, such as Oracle, Sage 50, Quickbooks, AccountEdge, DacEasy, Simply Accounting, Cougar, etc. Expanded … Continued
Over the last few years, “Couponing” has become an indispensable retailer’s tool. Reasons to use coupons include: To Increase Number of New Customers To Increase Sales of a Specific Product To Increase Branding & Awareness To Reward Current Customers To…
Software as a service (SaaS, pronounced sas), sometimes referred to as “on-demand software” supplied by “Independent Software Vendors” (ISVs) or “Application-Service-Providers” (ASPs), is a software delivery model in which software and associated data are centrally hosted on the cloud. SaaS…
Dedicated warehouses are available nationwide for you to store and ship your products at locations assuring same day order and delivery capabilities. Your sales opportunities and customer loyalty increase as a result, while significantly reducing operational costs as you do not need to purchase or lease warehouses, acquire labor responsibilities, absorb slow season fixed costs, … Continued
Transportation management is the process of evaluating customer orders, suggesting routing solutions, and selecting the best mode and lowest cost providers. Your sales margins are closely tied to the use of sophisticated transportation management models which are responsive to your customer profiles and company growth options. This is especially critical for the profitable delivery of … Continued
Freight forwarding leverages supply chain best practices and provides the expertise to move cargo internationally using ships, airplanes, trucks, and railroads. The sophistication in selecting and scheduling a shipment using multiple carriers is vital to increasing sales margins (especially for…
Customs brokerage involves the clearing of products through customs for importers and exporters. The work is focused on import/export compliance and the international trade process, including document preparation and coordination, facilitating communication between government authorities, managing shipment entry and clearance…
Drayage is the transportation of products over a short distance, and is typically a truck pickup from or delivery to a seaport, border point, inland port, or intermodal terminal with both the trip origin and destination in the same urban…
Integrate with 3rd party logistic networks of 100s of distribution centers strategically located throughout the world for optimum order handling and delivery, including drop shipments and vendor managed inventory. Enable orders to be optimally sourced from multiple distribution and store locations to increase supply network flexibility and efficiency while meeting customer delivery expectations.
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