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Small Business Inventory Management Insights
Small Business Inventory Management Insights
Online retailers, who are evaluating a small business inventory management solution for the first time, realize the need to automate their order and inventory processes. Automating with online inventory management not only alleviates the headaches and inaccuracies associated with the manual efforts, but it positions businesses to continually grow their brand. Multichannel selling significantly complicates small business inventory management, as well as other processes. Accurate inventory data is critical to delighting customers and driving growth. Information is essential. Smart and effective tools like real-time cloud based business intelligence reporting and interactive dashboards, are a necessity to help you manage and grow your business. Visibility into your inventory and...
The Pros & Cons of Drop Shipping for eCommerce
The Pros & Cons of Drop Shipping for eCommerce
Wouldn’t it be great to start an online store with very little investment upfront and manage it from anywhere in the world? Are you ready to free up your precious time, and let a supplier pay your upfront inventory costs and manage the processing and shipment of orders. This all might sound too good to be true, but with drop shipping for eCommerce, it's all possible. If you take the steps to learn how to build a drop shipping business, it's important to understand the pros and cons the fulfillment method can have. With this method, you don’t need to keep the products you sell in your stock. Instead,...
A Complete Guide to Managing Product Returns
A Complete Guide to Managing Product Returns
“National Returns Day” is expected to bring in 500,000 more packages this year, reaching 5 million total returns, according to UPS. Not only are return rates increasing, but UPS also found consumers are returning items earlier, and making room for two peaks. The first started in mid December and the second goes throughout early January. Since returns are at an all time high, how can you make sure to maximize your profits, while getting your return items back as quickly as possible? Managing Returns With Ease McKinsey & Company feels the future of online retail  "is essential for stores to digitize in order to meet the...