Third Party Logistics (3PL) - 12 Reasons to Use One If your business is like most businesses, your primary objectives should be selling and marketing your products and/or services, growing your business and increasing your profitability. To maximize this outcome, you must choose whether you want to...
Serialized Inventory Management for High Value Items: Serialized inventory tracking is an optional service Excelsior offers for clients with high value goods. It can be enabled on one item or all. When enabled, Excelsior implements additional item handling steps that give the client item-level visibility and...
About our 3PL Fulfillment Integration to Shopify Shopify is a leading ecommerce platform which many online merchants use for an ecommerce storefront and order management system. At Excelsior we have built a 3PL fulfillment integration to Shopify that allows us to hook into to your Shopify...
Guide to Issuing an E-Commerce 3PL RFP E-commerce companies that outgrow “the garage” or find a new 3PL need a way to evaluate available vendors efficiently and effectively. This guide provides you with some guidance on how to approach the RFP process along with a starter...
The Subscription Economy Has Arrived We attended a conference recently hosted by Zuora, a provider of software as a service solutions designed to help businesses transition to what they call “the subscription economy.” The Economist Group has also written about the trend it describes as a...
The Anatomy of a Successful Kickstarter Launch and Transition to Ecommerce Interview with Wintersmiths’ founder Chris Little On July 20, 2013, Wintersmiths reached and then significantly exceeded its funding goal on Kickstarter for the Ice Baller. Co-founders and brothers, Chris and Pat Little successfully completed their Kickstarter...
9 Ways DMOs and Tour Operators Create Value with Marketing Fulfillment Providers Destination marketing organizations and tour operators increasingly rely on their marketing fulfillment providers to enable marketing execution at reduced cost. Gartner Research explained the underlying reason for this in its CIO / CMO Partnership...
Entrepreneur Profile: Bruce Todtfeld, CEO, akesso shoes Our customers come in two basic varieties with a lot in common: entrepreneurs and marketing professionals. Both have a lot on their plates from the very tactical - literally moving product and marketing materials into the field; and the...
When is the Best Time to Outsource Ecommerce Order Fulfillment? How do you know when to outsource ecommerce order fulfillment? According to eMarketer, the number of consumers shopping online will surpass 200 million by 2015. As the Kickstarter economy has shown us, this booming ecommerce marketplace...
How Destination Marketing Organizations Rely on Marketing Fulfillment For many Destination Marketing Organizations (DMOs), outsourced marketing fulfillment services are the backbone of their operations. Once DMOs construct marketing campaigns to entice prospective travelers to their country/city, the actual execution of that campaign can be a time-drain....