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Freestyle Solutions Selected by CIO Review as a Top 20 Most Promising Tech Solution Provider for Apparel & Textile Industry
Leading best of breed provider of order and inventory management solutions receives recognition. PARSIPPANY, NJ, January 16, 2015 - Freestyle Solutions, the leading provider of inventory and order management solutions to growing small and mid-sized retailers and etailers, today announced that CIO Review named Dydacomp among its “Top 20 Most Promising Tech Solution Providers for Apparel & Textile Industry.” Freestyle Solutions' industry-leading Multichannel Order Manager (M.O.M.)and innovative Freestyle Omnichannel Management Service (O.M.S.) cloud-based inventory and order management systems make it a recognized leader in the industry. CIO Review is a technology magazine that showcases enterprise solutions capable of redefining the business goals of enterprises tomorrow. It is the leading source of sharing state-of-the-art enterprise solutions developed by established solutions providers, upcoming hot enterprises, and is a neutral source of information for technology decision makers. CIO Review constantly endeavors to identify “The Best” in a variety of areas important to tech business, and Freestyle Solutions was named in the “Top 20 Most Promising Tech Solution Providers” list in the Apparel & Textile Industry special edition of CIO Review. Over the course of
Winning the Amazon Buy Box
According to Amazon, the decisions you make for each step of selling on Amazon impact your performance standing, and your performance standing impacts your Buy Box eligibility. Learn more about Amazon inventory management, seller central, Fulfillment by Amazon and more. Here are a few ways to improve your chances of winning the Amazon buy box: 1. Achieve Featured Merchant Status Only sellers with a Featured Merchant status are eligible to win the Buy Box in their category. Featured Merchants must have at least 3-6 months of selling history and/or order history (varies by category). This is based on several factors, most notably the order defect rate. Refund claims and poor feedback factor in. Other factors include how long you have been selling on Amazon, how many sales you have made, how many orders you have cancelled before delivery, how many orders customers have reported as late delivery and what options you give customers for shipping. Be Known as a Positive Seller Buyers rate the merchant using Amazon’s star rating system from 5 stars (best) to 1 star (worst). If products
Amazon Buy Box Benefits
Winning the highly sought after Amazon Buy Box is the aim of retailers around the world. Learn how to win the Amazon buy box with 6 simple steps. This piece of desirable online retail real estate has proven to be an invaluable asset to sellers and a compelling factor in driving increased sales. The Buy Box is reserved solely for sellers who are deemed eligible by Amazon, meeting Amazon’s performance-based requirements. What Makes the Buy Box So Desirable? Amazon is one of the top 10 retailers in America for consumer purchases. For sellers, the Amazon Buy Box benefits are plentiful. It’s the coveted space in the marketplace where listings are given the spotlight desired by all other listings for that product. For the seller, it represents: Exposure: As with real-estate, the most sought after property is in the best location. For online retailers, that means getting noticed on Amazon. The Amazon Buy Box is located on a product detail page where customers begin the purchasing process by adding items to their shopping carts. If more than one eligible seller offers
Small Business Inventory Management Insights
Online retailers, who are evaluating a small business inventory management solution for the first time, realize the need to automate their order and inventory processes. Automating with online inventory management not only alleviates the headaches and inaccuracies associated with the manual efforts, but it positions businesses to continually grow their brand. Multichannel selling significantly complicates small business inventory management, as well as other processes. Accurate inventory data is critical to delighting customers and driving growth. Information is essential. Smart and effective tools like real-time cloud based business intelligence reporting and interactive dashboards, are a necessity to help you manage and grow your business. Visibility into your inventory and forecasting is critical to a healthy operation. You need to be able to track inventory across all sales channels – your eCommerce store(s), offsite fulfillment centers or shopping channels like Amazon, eBay or any of the many marketplaces available – from one dashboard. Multichannel inventory management makes this all possible. The last thing you want is to have too much inventory on hand and too few orders coming in, leading to reduced margins. Excessive inventory ties up the
The Pros & Cons of Drop Shipping for eCommerce
Wouldn’t it be great to start an online store with very little investment upfront and manage it from anywhere in the world? Are you ready to free up your precious time, and let a supplier pay your upfront inventory costs and manage the processing and shipment of orders. This all might sound too good to be true, but with drop shipping for eCommerce, it’s all possible. If you take the steps to learn how to build a drop shipping business, it’s important to understand the pros and cons the fulfillment method can have. With this method, you don’t need to keep the products you sell in your stock. Instead, you partner with a wholesale supplier that not only stocks the inventory for you, but the supplier then processes and sends orders directly to your customers – you never see or touch the product! Processing drop ship orders is a breeze, and you can spend all the free time you save on boosting your brand.
A Complete Guide to Managing Product Returns
“National Returns Day” is expected to bring in 500,000 more packages this year, reaching 5 million total returns, according to UPS. Not only are return rates increasing, but UPS also found consumers are returning items earlier, and making room for two peaks. The first started in mid December and the second goes throughout early January. Since returns are at an all time high, how can you make sure to maximize your profits, while getting your return items back as quickly as possible? Managing Returns With Ease McKinsey & Company feels the future of online retail "is essential for stores to digitize in order to meet the increased customer expectations now a reality in an always-on, whatever-you-want world. More than 60 percent of Americans have a smartphone and 80 percent of these consumers are “smartphone shoppers” – they use their phones to help them shop while in a store, most often to research product reviews, specifications and compare prices.” If you’re in the business of taking orders online, or managing multichannel sales, at some point, a customer is going to want or need