Posts, Retail Order Management
Retail Order Routing – What Exactly is it?
Editor’s Note: This post was originally published in August 2016 and has been updated for freshness, accuracy, and comprehensiveness. Retail Order Routing is the efficient allocation and fulfillment of customers orders based on a set of predefined business rules. Basically, it means getting a customer order, finding the item in a retailers inventory and getting…
Posts, Retail Order Management
BOPIS & Ship-To-Store – NOT the Same!
BOPIS and Ship-To-Store are easy to confuse. Kind of... Ship-to-store is what it says. It is about taking an order (often an online order) and shipping items to the store to fulfill. Then the customer can have it shipped to their home. Alternatively, they can have it held at the store for them to pick…
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What Exactly is Omnichannel Fulfillment?
Omnichannel has become more than just a buzzword in retail. Omnichannel retail is gaining momentum. So, what exactly does it mean? What specifically is omnichannel fulfillment, in the retail environment? More importantly, does it matter? What is Omnichannel Fulfillment? Order fulfillment happens after a customer makes a purchase. In short, it takes the customer orders…
