F. Curtis Barry & Company’s Multichannel Operations & Fulfillment Blog

Indianapolis, IN. (September 12, 2007) - Sigma Micro LLC announced today that Matt Konkle, previously CFO for Sigma Micro, has been appointed President of the company.
Mr. Konkle has served as CFO for Sigma Micro for the past 4 years and takes the helm from Joe Swern who recently stepped down from the position. As President […]

Retail technology provider Datavantage/CommercialWare, a subsidiary of MICROS Systems, Inc., will integrate solutions from e-commerce solutions provider eOne Group into the renamed MICROS Retail later this year.
Datavantage/CommercialWare has just acquired a 51% interest in eOne Group, which will allow MICROS Retail to offer extensive e-commerce applications to its users in addition to the currently available […]

This is an excerpt from an article written by Bob Betke. You can read the full article here: ERP Software in the Multichannel World.
Multichannel business managers frequently voice the desire to have one system or software package that is capable of managing the entire enterprise, encompassing all functional areas. Enterprise resources planning (ERP) systems have […]

ProfitCenter Software Inc. (PCS) is ramping up, with three new senior executives on board since April this year and plans to hire more employees. The most recent executive hire, announced this week, is John Marrah, who takes the position of president and CEO. Marrah has nine years of experience managing the largest direct systems provider […]

OrderMotion continues its webinar series focused on preparing merchants for the busy holiday retail season and how to significantly grow their business
Boston, Massachusetts—August 16, 2007 — OrderMotion, Inc., the leading provider of on-demand, direct commerce solutions for small-to-medium-sized merchants announced the continuation of its popular “how-to” Webinar series that is helping merchants […]

Congress has dealt with the possibility of requiring companies to collect Internet sales tax—thereby requiring states to collect taxes for each other—with all the speed of a pre-global–warming glacier. Incumbents are traditionally reluctant to be seen as the agents of any new tax, and the Congress has dealt with this issue so far by deciding […]

By Curt BarryQ: We are in the process of planning our file conversion as we implement our new catalog management system. Our vendor is telling us that they normally don’t write a file conversion program for most files. What’s your recommendation?
A: Today’s comprehensive order management system performs integrated functionality for order entry, customer service, order […]

By Tocky Lawrence
Any company choosing an e-commerce platform is faced with a bewildering number of choices. Determining which of these solutions best fits your needs is no longer as simple as having your local Internet provider develop a Web page with navigation and some type of shopping-cart functionality.
E-commerce solutions have evolved to include core functionality […]

For U.S.-based multichannel businesses interested in attracting customers from overseas and maintaining the highest possible standards of customer service could do worse than host their Web site in languages other than English. Web site translation company MotionPoint helps clients do just that, offering human translation of Web pages so a business can run alternative-language pages […]

Absolute productivity has declined in many companies.
Indeed, in conducting our benchmarking surveys (which we’ve done since 1996), we’ve discovered that many metrics, such as orders processed per full-time warehouse worker, remained flat, while dollars of sales processed per warehouse square foot have declined. In turn, labor rates have increased from an average of $5.50 to […]