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The Top 4 Supplier Onboarding Challenges and How to Solve Them

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Supplier onboarding is an important process for any business working with multiple suppliers, but it comes with challenges that grow as your supplier network does. While onboarding a small number of suppliers may be manageable manually, the workload quickly increases as your supplier network grows. Once you are onboarding more than a handful of suppliers, […]

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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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What Manufacturers Need to Know About Drop Shipping

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One of the most conspicuous traits of today’s business landscape is that customer expectations seem to reach new heights with every passing month—and this is especially true when it comes to shipping speed. Amazon has set the bar high for online retailers, getting goods into consumers’ hands so quickly that it has created a whole […]

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Why Supplier Collaboration is Essential to Business Growth

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Waves of supply chain issues have driven home the importance of supplier collaboration. A healthy network is vital to achieving real-time visibility into your business transactions. We’ve seen the drastic effects of supply chain disruption, like delays and stock shortages from single-supplier reliance and challenges for inventory tracking and forecasting due to unpredictable demand. The […]

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Drop Ship 101: The Benefits of Drop Ship for Retailers

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Drop shipping is a business model where a merchant, such as an eCommerce or brick-and-mortar retailer, sells products to consumers, but the product manufacturer or distributor is responsible for fulfillment. When a customer places an order on the drop shipper’s website or in a store that does not have inventory for that product, the order […]

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