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Is AliExpress Safe? A Basic Guide for Importers!

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While AliExpress costs are competitive globally, they are virtually always higher than buying in bulk from an Alibaba supplier. In most cases, you’ll need to send a purchase request to your supplier, and then negotiate for pricing and shipping arrangements. Source Products And Supplier. This complicates supplier selection.

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Top ECommerce Order Fulfillment Challenges!

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more than the total cost of eCommerce returns in 2016. You should also diversify your product suppliers. With this, if one supplier runs out of stock, you can source from another supplier to fulfill your orders. This is 75.2% Note that these figures don’t include restocking expenses and losses on inventory.

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IKEA’s IWAY Lessons For Procurement!

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Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. How To Differentiate With A Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) Program! Looking back on the training process, our research, strategy, implementation and evaluation methods closely mirrored supplier relationship management and procurement management. Subscribe Here! What is IWAY?

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What are the Supply Chain Impacts of Amazon’s Whole Foods Acquisition?

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Big news out of the grocery retail world as Amazon has announced its acquisition of major organic foods retailer Whole Foods Market – for an eye-popping $13.7 billion sale price that doesn’t look so massive given Amazon’s $136 billion sales volume in 2016.

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IKEA’s IWAY Has Lessons For Every Procurement Team!

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Looking back on the training process, our research, strategy, implementation and evaluation methods closely mirrored supplier relationship management and procurement management. Furthermore, the guidelines spelled out in IWAY established a new normal for the future of Ikea’s requirements on suppliers. What is IWAY?

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The Journey of One Banana! A Supply Chain in Motion! (Infographic)

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But, without the initial farming/production of the banana, the rest of the supply chain would be redundant. The majority of banana export comes from 3 countries, which top the list for 2016: Ecuador, Guatemala and Costa Rica. A Supplier Relationship Management SaaS functioning out of Stockholm, Sweden.