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Omnichannel Retailing: How to Get Started

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Omnichannel retailing isn’t just the future of commerce. It’s something that customers already expect in their shopping experience. According to a 2017 study, 73% of shoppers use multiple channels during their shopping journey. We can only assume that number is higher today. Most retailers are already familiar with the trend. In fact, one survey determined […]

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Top 10 eCommerce Trends to Look For in 2022

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With each new year comes a new opportunity to examine eCommerce trends with a wiser, analytically driven eye. We can look back to the trends that have come and gone, and we can make informed projections based on what we’ve learned, combined with a bit of intuition, to make sense of the future of eCommerce. […]

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How to Build Your Black Friday eCommerce Strategy

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The holidays are right around the corner, and with consumers spending $109.8 billion in November of 2021 alone, we can expect a huge portion of sales to occur online. The pandemic has not slowed the fairly consistent year-over-year holiday shopping growth rate — although the way people shop may have changed. The time to prepare […]

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The Top 4 Supplier Onboarding Challenges and How to Solve Them

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Successfully onboarding a new supplier relies on the coordination of a lot of moving parts. In an ideal scenario, you’d select a supplier and your team would have them fully onboarded within just a few days. But the fact is, this is rarely the case. From technology gaps to compliance issues, to inefficient back-and-forth processes, […]

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Why the Cosmetics Supply Chain Needs a Digital Makeover

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Manufacturers and retailers learned a poignant lesson during the global coronavirus crisis: that meeting constantly shifting consumer demands while providing excellent customer service is impossible without the right technology. In the highly competitive cosmetics industry, which has unique logistics challenges and above-average numbers of individual products to manage, leveraging technology to gain these efficiencies is […]

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Why You Need Better Inventory Visibility

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To meet customer demands and stay competitive in a world where expectations for product availability and delivery speed continue to rise, every link along the supply chain has to operate efficiently. From warehouse management to order fulfillment to juggling multiple channels, there are often countless points in a single product’s journey where eliminating errors and […]

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SOC 2 Compliance: What is it and Why Should You Care?

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It can take a village of service organizations to support a business. In other words, no matter how self-sufficient a company is, chances are it depends upon a myriad of other companies like payment processors, web hosting companies, eCommerce platforms, CRMs, and more. Each point of contact can present a variety of risks. Some supporting […]

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Apparel Inventory Management: How Brands and Retailers Can Work Together with VMI

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Historically speaking, the apparel industry has always been susceptible to inventory woes. Before the digital age, predicting what clothing would sell best—and in which styles, colors, and sizes—involved some rolling of the dice. If buyers overestimated customer appetites for a particular item, it could lead to overstocks, stagnant inventory, and markdowns representing millions of dollars […]

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Brick-and-Click for Manufacturers: Go Beyond Shelves with eCommerce

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According to recent eMarketer data, online sales in the U.S. reached $794.5 billion in 2020. Before the COVID-19 pandemic hit and changed the face of digital shopping, eCommerce sales weren’t expected to reach that level until 2022. With rapid ongoing expansion in eCommerce sales for many industries, online retail brands aren’t the only ones who […]

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FSMA 204 Food Traceability Rule: Compliance Date, Requirements, and How EDI Helps

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This article was updated on March 26, 2026 to reflect current FSMA 204 requirements. When the FDA finalized the Food Traceability Rule, it changed the recordkeeping obligations for a significant portion of the food industry. Anyone who manufactures, processes, packs, or holds goods on the Food Traceability List now have specific requirements to meet, and […]

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