Online commerce is growing at an exponential rate. According to Forrester's recent State of Online Retailing report, web retailers experienced 28 percent year-over-year growth in 2012. Combined with... more
Order Management
Orders can be received from businesses (B2B), consumers (B2C), or a mix of both, depending on the products. Offers and pricing may be done via catalogs, websites, or broadcast network... more
Inventory Management
Inventory management is a process for managing and locating objects or materials. It often relies upon barcode and radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags to provide automatic identification of... more
Delivery
Order delivery can be one of the most stressful parts of an online transaction. The customer has already paid for a product, but does not actually have it in hand. And the retailer - devoted to... more
Pick and Pack
Pick and Pack is the most common operation in order fulfillment and a popular service offered by many Fulfillment Centers. It is a process by which the individual components of an order are gathered... more
Kitting and Assembly
The first research towards defining order fulfillment strategies was published by Mather (1988) and his discussion of the P:D ratio, whereby P is defined as the production lead-time, i.e. how long it... more
Quality Assurance and Compliance
Quality assurance (QA) is a way of testing and checking the products so that the items and groups of items are what they should be. It is very important to have multiple quality control... more
Cross Docking
Cross-docking is a practice in logistics of unloading materials from an incoming semi-trailer truck or railroad car and loading these materials directly into outbound trucks, trailers, or rail cars,... more
Warehouse Management
A warehouse management system (WMS) is a key part of the supply chain and primarily aims to control the movement and storage of materials within a warehouse and process the associated transactions,... more
Reverse Logistics
Business often focuses on the cycle that culminates in delivering goods to a customer. But what happens after after goods are delivered? Enter the world of "reverse logistics." Reverse... more
Work Management
Labor is highest cost in most warehouse and fulfillment operations today. Labor management enables business to better utilize valuable labor resources, maintain margin expectations and gain a... more
Fulfillment Center Management
Order fulfillment requires multiple steps in a sequential process like sourcing, manufacturing, backorder management, pick and pack, ship and associated customer communications. Order fulfillment is... more
Multichannel Order Management
Multichannel orders can be received from businesses, consumers in physical stores, eCommerce websites, affiliated businesses, etc. UMexX's capabilities include order entry, customers, accounts, stock... more
Extended Automation
http://youtu.be/xwN4o_ixcSs Typically there are some degree of automation within a warehouse. For examples, pallets and product move on a system of automated conveyors, cranes and automated... more
Global Fulfillment Management
Order fulfillment requires multiple steps in a sequential process like sourcing, manufacturing, backorder management, pick and pack, ship and associated customer communications. Order fulfillment is... more
Expanded Sales Network
Connect Once - Sell Everywhere. Integrate to UMexX's private network and own the ability to rapidly expand sales through online channels, stores, malls, and marketplaces, like Amazon, Alibaba,... more
Content Marketing
Content marketing is any marketing format that involves the creation and sharing of media and publishing content in order to acquire customers. This information can be presented in a variety of... more
SEO
SEO stands for "search engine optimization". It is the process of getting traffic from the "free," "organic," "editorial" or "natural" listings on search engines. All major search engines such as... more