Wie Onlinehändler ihren Versand für die umsatzstärkste Zeit des Jahres organisieren sollten Wenn das Lager voll ist, der Shop aufgehübscht und das Personal aufgestockt – dann steht bei den Onlinehändlern die Weihnachtssaison vor der Tür. Während Kunden fleißig Ausschau nach Geschenken für Ihre Liebsten halten, bietet sich für Shopbetreiber durch zuverlässige Bestellabwicklung die Chance, neue…
Die UNITO-Gruppe reagiert auf den boomenden E-Commerce und wachsende Paketmengen mit der Optimierung der gesamten Logistikkette und Halbierung der Lieferzeit. Der Online-Motor läuft auf Hochtouren: UNITO erreicht ein Online-Umsatzplus von 10,1 Prozent und rechnet auch mit einem zweistelligen Online-Wachstum im Weihnachtsgeschäft. Mobile Einkäufe erzielen im laufenden Jahr Rekordzuwachsraten, das Smartphone generiert ein Anspracheplus von 80 Prozent…
Saturday 12th December has been dubbed “Out of Stock Saturday” by analysts Clear Returns, as it will be the day when the largest number of retailers’ stock will be tied up in the returns loop and unavailable to buy. Clear Returns has calculated that £160 million worth of “stock on loan” will permeate the system…
Diese Meldung schlug ein wie eine Bombe: Apple nimmt zwar offiziell nicht am Rekord-Ausverkauf „Black Friday Sale“ teil, weder online noch in den Apple Stores. Eine deutliche Entwarnung geben jetzt die Betreiber von BlackfridaySale.at Während des Online-Black Fridays bieten autorisierte Apple-Händler über www.BlackFridaySale.at besondere Angebote aus dem Sortiment des iPhone-Erfinders. Zu den Händlern gehören unter…
iForce has almost quadrupled its workforce from 750 to 2600 to cope with Black Friday and the rest of the Christmas season this year. The logistics and software company expect to dispatch 146,000 items on Black Friday – which would be a year-on-year increase of 23.5 per cent. The extra warehouse staff will be “spread…
Asda has said customer “shopping fatigue” has prompted a decision to opt out of shopping phenomenon Black Friday this month. The supermarket retailer, who introduced Black Friday to the UK market in 2013, has decided that this year it will deliver deals throughout the festive season in a £26 million investment. According to Asda, customer…
Asda has said customer “shopping fatigue” has prompted a decision to opt out of shopping phenomenon Black Friday this month. The CEO of Advanced Supply Chain has said last year’s pressures on UK retailers may have also influenced their decision. The supermarket retailer, who introduced Black Friday to the UK market in 2013, has decided…
Home delivery specialists have been setting out their strategies for dealing with Black Friday amid predictions that the peak could be 30 per cent higher than last year. Dick Stead, executive chairman of Yodel, said: “With 2015 due to see even greater volumes than last year, there is no doubt that we as an industry,…
US outdoor retailer REI has bucked the Black Friday trend and has announced it will close all 143 of its retail locations, its headquarters and two distribution centres on November 27th – now one of the busiest trading days of the year. The company has sent a letter to its 5.5million members informing them of…
Yodel is recruiting 7,000 part-time and full-time staff across the UK in preparation for this year’s peak Christmas period. It will recruit more than 800 directly employed drivers who will be provided with Yodel branded uniforms and a liveried van. It is also looking for around 3,000 owner drivers, who will be required to provide…
The number of heavy online shoppers in the UK – those making 11 or more purchases a quarter – has doubled to three million over the past two years, according to the latest study by Hermes. And the 2105 Hermes International Parcel Deliveries Usage and Attitudes Survey also found that some 18.7 million people have…
DPD has officially opened its £100 million parcels hub at Hinckley ready for the Black Friday and Christmas peak. The hub is fitted with a 3,000 metre long automated sorter by Beumer, and is capable of sorting 720,000 parcels per night. It was opened by Philippe Wahl, chairman and CEO of La Poste, DPD’s parent company….
Supply Chain author Mark Millar challenged the use of free delivery in online shopping, when he opened the Omni-Channel conference in London this morning. And he went on to describe the free returns process as “insanity”. In his new book, Millar has developed the concept of supply chain ecosystems – to describe the process of moving…
E-tailers need to move quickly and think smarter if they are going to fulfil their delivery promises this Christmas season, according to Mark Rosenberg, managing director of Parcelhub, which provides delivery services through multiple carriers. “Nearly four times the number of shoppers are expected to place an order online on Black Friday this year compared…
Up to 3.1 million SMEs run the risk of not being able to meet their delivery promises and may undermine customer satisfaction on Black Friday, according to research from Royal Mail. It found that nearly two thirds of small business owners are not preparing for the delivery of customer orders despite the fact that they…
Vertu, the manufacturer and retailer of luxury mobile phones, has launched a global three to five day commitment from point or order to first point of delivery. Fulfilling such commitments – combined with the changing requirements of multiple points of sale and customer interaction – necessitates a ready supply of skills and a significant reduction…
Andrew Starkey, head of e-logistics at IMRG, is to examine the issue of reverse logistics when he speaks at this year’s Omni-Channel Conference. Taking place on 16th and 17th September at Dexter House in London, The Omni-Channel Conference will address the need to deal more effectively with demand, fulfilment and returns. With an even larger…
A panel featuring operations director at Neptune Home, Matthew Talbot, will discuss customer fulfilment and final demand at this year’s Omni-Channel Conference. The panel will asses issues including speed versus service, response versus reliability and cost versus convenience. And whether these services provide both greater value and what the customer wants. Taking place on 16th…
Yodel has appointed Mark Horrobin peak programme director, a newly created role, to strengthen and oversee the planning and execution for this year’s Christmas peak. Research by eDigitalResearch on behalf of Yodel suggests that four times as many shoppers are planning to place online orders this Black Friday as in 2014 Horrobin has already created…
Yodel has appointed Mark Horrobin peak programme director, a newly created role, to strengthen and oversee the planning and execution for this year’s Christmas peak. Research by eDigitalResearch on behalf of Yodel suggests that four times as many shoppers are planning to place online orders this Black Friday as in 2014 Horrobin has already created…
Logistics providers are being pushed to provide increasingly innovative services as e-commerce increasingly makes the logistics provider the critical link between the retailer and the customer. Eoin Kenneally, head of e-commerce at Hermes, told delegates at the 3PL Conference in Birmingham today how the delivery specialist is developing new services to support their retail customers’…
Online shoppers might have to get used to 48 or even 72 hour delivery at peak times, Yodel’s executive chairman Dick Stead has warned. Yodel Board portraits:Photo: Professional Images/@ProfImagesYodel handled more than 15.5 million parcels between 1st and 24th December – 11 per cent more than 2013. But the huge spike in demand around Black…
The Post Office is predicting its biggest ever pre-Christmas returns surge, with 3.6m consumers expected to return £813m worth of online purchases. The poll of 2,000 consumers found that 75 per cent of Christmas present returns are carried out before 25 December, with 42 per cent of all gifts purchased online. In the UK, the…
Yodel has hit the headlines after warning that home deliveries could be delayed by up to 72 hours, as it was deferring collections from retailers by up to 48 hours to allow it to clear a backlog of parcels in the network. In a statement, Yodel said the Black Friday and Cyber Monday promotions had…
Yodel says it has now cleared a backlog of parcels at its central sorting facilities caused by an unexpected 26 per cent spike in parcel volumes in the wake of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Scheduled collections, which had been deferred, have resumed. However, Yodel warned that new parcels entering the network may be still…
As the holiday season is in full swing, Chuck Moyer, CEO Express Delivers, forecasts what eCommerce delivery will look like. If you thought the 2013 holiday season was a wild ride, CLDA board member Chuck Moyer says 2014 has all the makings of a train wreck. Chuck was a presenter at Eye for Transport’s 12th…
John Wagner Jr. oversees the upcoming holiday shopping season in regards of retail sales opportunities, online shopping and industrial production, including the latest transportation and intermodal news and challenges. The arctic chill is hitting most of the USA early this year, but retail sales heated up in October by 0.3 percent. The Census Bureau reports…
Zen Yarworksy’s first column for eft on wearable technology Minority Report, for those of you who haven’t seen it, is a 2002 sci-fi film set in the future where certain human beings have developed the ability to have advanced knowledge of someone’s intention to commit serious crimes (precognition). Tom Cruise, dressed in a variety of…
As factories move to China, middlemen are removed & what happens to the retailers? Vivek Sood uses Alibaba (Chinese ecommerce) as a case study to explore this further Now that all the factories have move to China (or some such places as Vietnam, Bangladesh, Taiwan), and all the customers have moved to the PC (or…
Article by John Wagner Jr from Wagner Logistics. Hear that clock ticking? The mysterious fiscal cliff we’ve been headed towards since the elections approaches for us all. Discussions to negotiate a compromise in Washington have not been promising. Interestingly though, despite the concern and a storm of media coverage, it does not appear that…
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