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Order fulfilment core processes & pain areas
Senthil Kumar Ramachandran

This paper discusses the end-to-end processes involved in fulfilling a customer order in real service provider operations. The implied objective of this paper is to highlight the series of process steps and related pain areas to be addressed in Order Management (OM) and Provisioning system implementations. It begins with mapping of OM/ Provisioning activities onto eTOM business processes down to individual sub-processes

Should You Outsource E-Commerce Fulfillment?
Elise Chow

E-tailers are experiencing increasing pressure to sell more products online, move a larger volume of small packages, and meet rising customer expectations. Can outsourcing help? Here's what to consider. Ask any three people to define e-commerce, and you'll probably end up with three very disparate answers. Why? Some companies think they're conducting e-commerce simply because they have e-mail. Some believe that the mere presence of a Web site constitutes e-commerce. The companies that are truly engaged in e-business use sophisticated Internet technologies to unify all of their business procedures, internal and external -- including their e-commerce activities

Outsourcing Fulfillment - Save time and money and skip a few headaches by letting someone else fill your orders
Dan Blacharski

Q: I'm writing a business plan for an online retail clothing site, and I want to run it from home until the company grows. I want to outsource the fulfillment to cut operating expenses. Can you give me some advice?

A: You are smart to consider outsourcing fulfillment -- 44 percent of online retailers lose money on shipping and handling

How to Select a Fulfillment House
Dr. Ralph F. Wilson

As an alternate to warehousing and shipping your own products, you can outsource the warehousing and product fulfillment function to a fulfillment house. You'll find many listed in the Yahoo! Directory "Fulfillment Services" category. Most, however, won't look twice at the small merchant just starting out. The vast majority are targeting for merchants with 2,000 orders or more each month. Fortunately, however, there are some companies that serve the needs of beginning Internet merchants

ORDER FULFILLMENT: DELIVERING THE E-PROMISE
J Shlesinger et al.

"I got it the day after Christmas" or "I never got it at all" are two of cyber-shoppers most common complaints. Indeed, many organizations still don't get right today, shipping, that is. Executives and managers confused and challenged by order fulfillment would do well to read this helpful article. According to the authors, consultants at McKinsey & Co., managers must consider and answer two key questions to sort out the fulfillment conundrum - and to avoid disappointing customers. They must first consider which performance capabilities

Order fulfillment depends on integrated supply chain
Jim Katzaman

At Anniston Army Depot, Ala., Defense Distribution Depot Anniston and the Defense Reutilization and Marketing Office work closely with the only Army depot capable of performing maintenance on both heavy and light-tracked combat vehicles and their components. The depot is the Army’s Center of Industrial and Technical Excellence for all combat vehicles (except the Bradley), artillery and small-caliber weapons. Maintenance and storage of conventional ammunition and missiles are also significant parts of the depot’s overall missions and capabilities..