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Supply Chain Crisis: Applying Long-Term Thinking
February 04, 2022

Abe Eshkenazi, CEO of the Association for Supply Chain Management (ASCM), said organizations need to take more of a long-term, systemic view vs. short-term fixes in response to a crisis. In this MCM p

Square/Afterpay and the Broader BNPL Trend
September 27, 2021

BNPL has caught on more broadly in other markets but it's certainly poised to catch on here. Square's pending $29b acquisition of Afterpay is certainly a major indicator, as are other deals. What is t

Livestreaming Shopping: The New Virtual Mall?
September 17, 2021

The last 18 months of lockdowns and restrictions have made it hard for consumers to shop at stores, eliminating the pleasure of leisurely, impulse buying, seeing a product or speaking with an associat

Instacart and the Great Facebook Talent Raid
September 13, 2021

Instacart has been on its own shopping spree, hiring away Fidji Simo, who ran Facebook's main app, as CEO, as well as Facebookers Carolyn Everson as president and Asha Sharma as COO. What’s behind Ins

Prepping for Peak Season at Burton
July 23, 2021

Israel Maynard, Senior Director of International Logistics and Fulfillment for outdoor gear and apparel retailer Burton, has been busy working with vendors overseas and partners here to get everything

Ecommerce Operations Software: After the Go Live
July 20, 2021

After a major software implementation, how do you deal with issues that inevitably crop up? Katie Langrock, VP of Operations at Vermont Teddy Bear and a panelist on this topic at Ecommerce Operations

Rolling With the Changes, Meeting New Demand at Tractor Supply
July 14, 2021

As the pandemic settled in, many were looking to escape urban environs and get back to the land. Letitia Webster, Tractor Supply’s SVP of ecommerce, omnichannel and MDM, and a keynote at Ecommerce Ope

How Best Buy Approaches Hiring and Staffing Challenges
July 13, 2021

Finding enough workers is a problem, and you need to be mindful of how the workforce is changing to meet staffing objectives. Mark Irvin, chief inclusion and diversity officer for Best Buy and a keyno

Driving Toward Interoperability for Warehouse Robots
July 06, 2021

There has been a steady proliferation of autonomous mobile robot makers. This while demand has grown for AMRs in order fulfillment, as ecommerce booms and labor is tight. But can different warehouse r

3 Years After Wayfair Decision, Issues Continue
June 28, 2021

In our latest MCM CommerceChat podcast, Liz Armbruester of Avalara, and Kevin Permenter of IDC provide an update on the ecommerce taxation landscape, three years after the landmark Wayfair decision. W