Month: October 2014

For many retailers, December is the strongest sales month of the entire year. Not only do merchants enjoy an influx of orders during the holiday season, they also benefit when consumers spend their holiday bonuses on goods and services. The results can be nothing short of a Christmas miracle: putting struggling companies into the black, […]

The Advantages of Outsourcing Reverse Logistics   For retailers, reverse logistics is an unavoidable fact of life. No matter how great your products are overall, and how satisfied your customers tend to be on the whole, someone somewhere is bound to return something. Maybe it was a gift they didn’t want. Maybe there was a […]

You’re probably well aware that over time, warehouses are becoming increasingly automated. Warehouse automation is growing for a reason: it has a number of very real benefits for companies. Keeping up with the latest technologies can significantly increase the efficiency of your warehouse operations, save valuable money, and help keep your customers satisfied. What you […]

Supply chain management is a complex undertaking. It involves dealing with multiple flows of goods and information across networks of suppliers, warehouses, shippers, and carriers. One way to help manage this almost overwhelming complexity is to use sophisticated simulation software. Simulation software for logistics allows the use of real-time, real-world data to stage mathematical analyses […]