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THE SUPPLY CHAIN'S PIVOT TO E-COMMERCE
| 题名： | THE SUPPLY CHAIN'S PIVOT TO E-COMMERCE |
| 正文语种： | eng |
| 作者： | GARY FORGER |
| 摘要： | Everybody knew it was coming. No one knew exactly when. Until it arrived. All at once. The "it," of course, is explosive growth in e-commerce sales. And the "all at once" was the second quarter of 2020. That's when e-commerce sales soared 44.5% compared to the second quarter of 2019, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce. Not the 14% to 16% expected for the year, which is anything but casual growth. And that accelerated pace fell off just 1% in the third quarter. "How does any DC absorb that?" asks Dan Gilmore, vice president of marketing for Softeon. That, unfortunately, is not a rhetorical question. And the immediate answer is not easily, and certainly not gracefully. Worse yet, it was just a prelude of what was to come. By the time Cyber Monday rolled around, e-commerce set a record for its biggest day ever-$10.8 billion, according to Adobe. That was on top of a more than 20% increase in e-commerce to $5 billion on Thanksgiving just a few days earlier. Talk about crushing a sense of order and control in DCs from coast to coast. Unfortunately, the fallout didn't stop at the shipping dock. It moved right onto parcel trucks. Just 36 hours after Cyber Monday, CNBC reported that UPS had stopped picking up parcels from Nike, Gap, Macy's, L.L. Bean, Hot Topic and Newegg. All of those companies had reached their designated shipment level set by UPS. They were maxed out. |
| 出版年： | 2021 |
| 期刊名称： | Logistics Management |
| 卷： | 60 |
| 期： | 6 |
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