Just in time fulfillment (oftentimes referred to as JIT fulfillment) is a method of managing your inventory and shipping that involves purchasing product as orders come in, packaging, and sending them off to customers on your own. It’s definitely an uncommon strategy for most merchants, and there are some pros and cons…
An outsourced warehouse is a popular fulfillment strategy for many entrepreneurs, especially those that have a high quantity of products to be stored. Essentially, it involves taking your inventory and shipping operations, and moving them to privately owned warehouse that receives orders and ships them off to customers. Like in-house…
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Although difficult to validate, it is believed that about 1% of all packages shipped are lost in the delivery process. A large chunck of these can be attributed to inconsistencies in specifying the shipping address. For an ecommerce merchant these errors eat away at profit margins, but more…
Running a business is the act of creating value for customers, and capturing it for shareholders, through a sustainable competitive advantage. The key to developing and sustaining a competitive advantage is to pursue a specific strategy. In the classical definition, Michael Porter broadly outline three different strategies: Differentiation strategy, low-cost strategy and focus strategy. All…