Yugster.com Shares its Fulfillment Strategy
The old-school approach to order fulfillment doesn’t fly for many Internet retailers. Warehousing, packing, shipping, and return-order processing are labor-intensive and time-consuming. This has led to a trend among online sellers to outsource its fulfillment operations.
This isn’t drop shipping or outsourcing to a traditional warehouse. I’m talking about ecommerce fulfillment providers (EFPs). They take the “friction” out of order fulfillment. In a typical scenario, a consumer will buy merchandise from a company’s website. This purchase triggers an order that is sent electronically to an EFP who processes the order. A shipper such as FedEx or UPS is then automatically notified. Upon shipment of the order, an automated notification is …
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Yugster.com Shares its Fulfillment Strategy
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