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Promising figures Italian e-commerce has started off well with a set of promising figures: • 14 million online consumers at the end of 2013 • 20% more e-shoppers than last year • E-commerce sales revenue of 11.2 billion euros • A smartphone penetration rate of 53% • M-commerce growth of 210%

Clothing is functional and essential, but also a mark of status and identity. Small wonder, then, that apparel is the  world’s biggest cross-border e-commerce category , according to PayPal’s Spice Routes report. Worth €9.33 billion a year, it accounts for the largest share of overseas e-commerce transactions in five of six markets examined—the US, China, the UK, Germany and Australia.

Amazon.com Inc's China arm has registered as an ocean freight forwarder, according to the U.S. Federal Maritime Commission, a move that will give it more control over shipping products from Chinese factories to U.S. shoppers.  Amazon, new freight forwarder Its new status as a freight forwarder, or “ non-vessel operating common carrier ,” gives Amazon, the world’s largest online retailer, a foothold in the $350 billion a year ocean freight business. It will not operate ships but subcontract that work. Amazon  is already negotiating a deal to  lease 20 jets to start an air-delivery service  in the United States. The retailer  bought truck trailers to add shipping capacity  and started a program last year that uses a  f leet of on-demand drivers to deliver packages . More than 10.000 parcels in a single container More than 10,000 parcels can fit in a single container, so the price for the ocean freight leg could be as low as $0.135 per parcel. Here’s another way

In general, outsourcing your order fulfillment offers the following advantages.

The following article gives you an insight on the pro's and con's of outsourcing ecommerce fulfillment. Strangely the arguments pro are also the arguments contra for outsourcing this activity. It's all about know- how, convenience, speed shipment and saving on cost for logistics. So basicly it's up to you and your company to determine what to do. Either which way you go make a good analysis of your situation, your business and your customers. Good luck

Hello readers, I've been reading an interesting article on Omnichannel strategy.While reading I realised that companies like Amazon do have an enormous impact in the way we will be buying products and goods in the future and they will go far beyond their bounderies (if there are any?) Giants like Amazon excell in know how and knowledge in Omnichannel strategy. So watch out for these giant monsters and be prepared. For me there a four key points in developing a omnichannel strategy 4 steps to keep in mind: Know your customer: customer in the centre of the business Develop the customer journey: inspiring, orienting, informing.... Create a uniform and synchronised brand experience Implement a CRM/ERP platform integrating all processes (logistic, admin, financial...) customer journey

In a nutshell, Macy's omnichannel strategy... MOM A key factor in Macy’s success has been the consistent and disciplined execution of the core strategies of My Macy’s localization, Omnichannel integration and Magic Selling customer engagement, which are known by the acronym of “M.O.M.”

Many companies are behind consumers in switching to omni-channel sales while logistics can help them gain significant competitive advantages, according to a new DHL study released today. Traditional channel-based approaches are out The logistics industry has a significant role to play in the transformation to an omni-channel business model, says the in-depth DHL Omni-Channel Logistics Trend Report, published in collaboration with the data analyzer IDC Manufacturing Insights. There is growing recognition by markets and consumers that traditional channel-based approaches are now out-of-sync with the anytime, anywhere shopping behaviour and delivery expectations of modern consumers. This is driving the new omni-channel approach in which all sales channels – brick-and-mortar, online, and mobile – converge into a single seamless channel of orchestrated product flow. Population buying online is growing  “Within the next three years, most of the world’s population (90%) wil