February 3, 2010 Mobile Friendly    Online Version    Add to Safe Sender List
O&F Advisor: Ops & Fulfillment Strategies and Tactics
From the Editors of Multichannel Merchant
In this Issue
 The State of Free Shipping Offers
 Quantifying the Impact of Contact Center Schedule Adherence
 Sigma Micro and Stark Bro's Beget Fifth Gear
 Home Depot Opens DC in Topeka

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The State of Free Shipping Offers

By Curt Barry

After tracking hundreds of free-shipping promotions this past fall/holiday season, here's what operations and fulfillment consultancy F. Curtis Barry & Co. found.

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Quantifying the Impact of Contact Center Schedule Adherence

By Penny Reynolds

Can you quantify the impact that a lack of schedule adherence has on your call center? Here are a few approaches for putting some numbers to your facility's schedule adherence—or lack thereof.

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Sigma Micro and Stark Bro's Beget Fifth Gear

By Jim Tierney

Sigma Micro and Stark Bro’s Fulfillment have joined forces to create Fifth Gear. The new company provides outsourced fulfillment, contact center and e-commerce services, as well as other functions for direct retailers.

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Home Depot Opens DC in Topeka

As part of a plan to transform its supply chain, the Home Depot unveiled a new retail distribution center in Topeka, KS, last week.

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