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How An Industry Leading Brand Is Preparing Fulfillment Operations For Cyber Week 2020

Leave a Comment / Cyber Week, Fulfillment / By oceanx

Preparing For The Highest Grossing Cyber Week in History For businesses in the direct-to-consumer space, 2020 has created both a boom and a strain for business operations. While the increase in online shopping has been convenient for consumers and increased business revenue, the surge has created challenges for supply chains and fulfillment operations to keep pace. As a result of transforming behaviors occurring throughout the year, …

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Navigating Carrier Capacity

Leave a Comment / E-commerce, Fulfillment / By oceanx

It’s estimated that during the 2021 holiday shopping season, delivery demand will exceed carrier capacity by over 5 million parcels per day. Take a look at that statistic again: This isn’t the volume of packages delivered per day during this year’s holiday season. It’s the number of packages per day that exceed the capacity of carriers across the nation. …

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What Beauty & Wellness Brands Need to Look for In a 3PL

Leave a Comment / 3PL, Fulfillment / By oceanx

It seems that the beauty and wellness industries are only at the beginning of a new period of staggering growth. The beauty industry alone is anticipated to rise from $483 billion in 2020 to $511 billion in 2021, with a global compound annual growth rate of 4.75 percent worldwide. By 2025, the industry is predicted to …

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Last-Mile Solutions for Health & Wellness Fulfillment

Leave a Comment / Fulfillment, Shipping / By oceanx

In one poll of 2,500 U.S. consumers, researchers discovered that the top two concerns regarding shipping are speed and cost. It’s no secret that consumers want fast, affordable delivery. In this same poll, only 7.5 percent of shoppers reported that they didn’t factor shipping dates into their purchasing decisions. When speed and price are a …

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Are Your Fulfillment Options Ready for 2022?

Leave a Comment / B2B Fulfillment, Fulfillment, Modern Fulfillment, Omnichannel Fulfillment / By oceanx

There are plenty of predictions about what 2022 will bring to the beauty and wellness eCommerce sphere: The rise in popularity of dermo-cosmetics Consumer boycotts of unsustainable or falsely-sustainable brands The re-positioning of the beauty and cosmetics industries in regards to their effect on mental health Buy-now, pay-later purchasing options But what about fulfillment for …

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Optimizing Fulfillment Operations for eCommerce Marketplaces

Leave a Comment / Fulfillment, Successful E-commerce / By oceanx

Between 2019 and 2021, direct-to-consumer (DTC) eCommerce sales essentially doubled, growing from $76.68 billion in 2019 to an astonishing $151.2 billion in sales in 2021. DTC brands are surging in popularity with no end in sight, and as a result, they are also growing increasingly competitive with more and more capabilities. These DTC brands have …

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The Merits of Retail Fulfillment

Leave a Comment / Fulfillment, Shipping / By oceanx

eCommerce and retail fulfillment can make all the difference in how brands serve their customers—and in your sales. It can even impact whether or not consumers actually make a purchase. In fact, according to Big Commerce: 61 percent of consumers will abandon their cart if they discover that the fees for shipping and taxes are …

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OceanX’s Guide to Centralized and Decentralized Distribution ( + What is Hybrid Fulfillment?)

Leave a Comment / Fulfillment, Order Management / By oceanx

Whether the brand owner is newly introduced to outbound fulfillment or has partnered with third-party logistics before, everyone needs to know the difference between decentralized and centralized distribution. Before describing both of these processes, we need to note one thing. There is no one-size-fits-all to fulfillment. We encourage heavy research before deciding between centralized and …

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6 Fulfillment Tips to Make Cyber Week a Success

Leave a Comment / Cyber Week, Fulfillment, Successful E-commerce / By oceanx

In 2020, Cyber Week—the five-day period from Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday—broke all kinds of eCommerce records. While there’s no question that this spike in sales was at least partially a result of consumer worries about COVID-19 concerns, these record-breaking sales are only a continuation of climbing online sales during the peak holiday shopping season. One …

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eCommerce Kitting and Order Fulfillment Services

Leave a Comment / E-commerce, Fulfillment, Kitting Services & Assembly / By oceanx

On its own, order fulfillment can be a complicated process, and the right fulfillment partner can revolutionize this process, optimizing everything from the amount of time it takes to put a box together to the price and speed at which a package is shipped after an order is fulfilled. But when it comes to kitting, fulfillment …

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