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With the current e-commerce boom, online sellers are facing additional challenges such as supply chain issues and increased customer demand and expectations. If you sell online, it’s likely that you’re stacking up unimaginable volumes of sales on your marketplaces. If this is the case, your next first step could be using an E-commerce order management system – known in the trade as an OMS - to support your fulfilment processes. Find out more about the most common signs you're probably ready to implement an OMS as well as the benefits offered by this type of technology.

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With additional challenges being caused as a result of the current supply chain issues, driver shortages and the biggest ever peak season expected just around the corner, expectations of 3PLs are ever increasing. Working more efficiently has never been more important, which is why many online retailers are looking to outsource their logistics and partner with a 3PL that can offer streamlined fulfilment and shipping solutions as they look to keep ahead of growing demand.

With the changes of recent times in the E-commerce world – from an increase in online shopping, to supply chain challenges – we’re exploring some educated and informed predictions that can be made about the future of warehouses and fulfilment houses, and the impacts these will have on fulfilment and logistics.

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With the levels of online shopping continuing to increase, retailers are continuing to feel the effect of the rising demand of order fulfilment. As a solution to this, many online retailers are beginning to outsource their fulfilment to a third-party logistics (3PL) partner. But what exactly is a 3PL, and how do they work, we hear you ask. We’ve looked into the most asked questions relating to 3PLs and provided the answers. Read on to find out more.

Mintsoft is the Order Management Software with 175+ (and growing) integrations. Our collection of integrations allows you to seamlessly connect with your marketplaces, shopping carts and couriers from one platform, helping you to power and grow your E-commerce or fulfilment business in whatever way you plan to.

In 2020, e-commerce revenue broke records and the demand seems to be here to stay. This identifies the need for Third Party Logistics (3PLs) partners to focus on innovation in order to meet changing customer demands. Focus should be spent on streamlining that tasks and processes involved with storing inventory, picking, packing, and sending orders placed on behalf of your online and multi-channel retail clients.

Research shows 26% of online shoppers abandon purchases due to long shipping times, and as a result many online and multi-channel retailers have attempted to meet consumer needs by adding new delivery options to their offerings. With same-day and 24/7 delivery services being added as a part of this, are you equipped to support your clients as a third-party logistics (3PL) partner in terms of increased delivery options - as well as an increase in volume of orders? 

At Minstoft, we pride ourselves on our long and successful partnerships. We believe there is much to be gained from having experts integrated with us in all areas of the 3PL ecosystem, whether that’s in logistics, warehousing, retail or indeed, in an online marketplace agency, such as Activ8, the focus of this article. We caught up with Stu Conroy from Activ8 in our podcast series (which you can also find on YouTube) to talk about our recent partnership and the changes in e-commerce and online selling.

If you are an online seller that has scaled your business, either on your own site or through utilising multiple platforms and markets places such Notonthehighstreet (NOTHS), Etsy, eBay or Amazon, then you’ll be keeping a close eye on revenue, percentage points, overhead and net worth. But if keeping costs low and profits high is important to you (why wouldn't it be?) then there is one area you may have overlooked when it comes to growing your business, improving customer satisfaction and cuting costs. The answer? Striking deals with multiple shipping carriers and implementing a multi carrier approach.