Distributed Logistics for Digital Commerce, Part II: Primary Functions of Distributed Logistics

Distributed Logistics is about “Yield Management”. This means that it is the strategic control of inventory to sell the right product to the right customer at the right time for the right price. Distributed logistics connects all your online sales channels with all of your sources of inventory and then manages it as an integrated network. It can seem complex; but the video shows how it breaks down to five touchpoints that are required to sell on any digital commerce channel and how they relate your fulfillment strategy.

Understanding those touchpoints – and how well your current fulfillment options handle them – is a great first step to creating a digital logistics strategy and boosting your inventory yield and ROI.

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