Ask These Top 10 Inventory Management Questions (2026 Update)
Updated August 5, 2026 – Are you considering outsourcing your order fulfillment? Evaluate potential partners carefully before you take the leap. We’ve compiled 10 inventory management questions, plus guidance on what good and bad answers sound like, to help you identify the best fit for your business. Outsourcing eCommerce order fulfillment should save you time,…
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Are you keeping up with fulfillment?
You’ve invested in marketing – SEO, paid search, email marketing, social – and it’s paying off. Orders to your online store are on the rise, and you’re forecasting that trend to continue. But is fulfillment keeping up with online sales? What may have worked six months ago probably isn’t working very well today. You don’t…
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Have you outgrown your fulfillment provider? Here’s how to find out.
Choosing the right order fulfillment vendor is hard. Your fulfillment provider is the very link between your products and your customers. Maintaining that relationship is important, but things change as you and your business evolve. It would help to analyze whether your fulfillment provider is keeping up. It might be tough, given that you are…
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5 More Things Customers Want From Your Contact Center
We’re back with five more things that customers expect from ecommerce retailers’ customer care. Let’s dive into another list, shall we? (Missed the first article? Check it out here.) 1. KnowledgeYour contact center agents need to have in-depth knowledge about your products, but they should also have extensive visibility into how your operations work to…
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4 Myths About Outsourced Order Fulfillment
For many direct-to-consumer retailers, outsourced order fulfillment is a misunderstood process – and a polarizing one at that. Some are all-in and couldn’t imagine running their businesses without it, while others are convinced that using a third-party partner will ruin their companies. More are on the fence. So today, we’ll address four commonly-believed myths about…
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3 Tips for Faster eCommerce Returns
Whether it’s the holiday season or your slowest season, some customers will send their orders back for many reasons. The product could be the wrong size/color, damaged, or not wanted or needed. Whatever the issue is, when you receive a return, you need to turn it around fast – returned inventory that’s not pickable on…
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Tips for Running a Safer Warehouse
We’ve spoken before about how fulfillment is a crucial and time-consuming aspect of ecommerce. It’s a massive problem if you cannot fulfill your orders efficiently and accurately. But nothing goes hand-in-hand with maximum warehouse productivity like a safe facility and well-trained staff! Since 100 percent of our warehouse workers are Speed Commerce employees (some other…
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Why It’s Important to be PCI Compliant?
Nearly 15 percent of consumers said they had abandoned their online purchase during the payment process due to concerns about the site’s security standards. A data breach can do more than temporarily bring down a business: it can ruin customers’ trust in your brand and the ecommerce industry. So how do retailers combat this threat?…
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