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Your 2025 Ecommerce Checklist: Get Ready to Succeed!

Your 2025 Ecommerce Checklist: Get Ready to Succeed!

As December arrives, ecommerce businesses are focusing on the holiday rush—but the most successful companies know that 2025 has already started. Smart planning and data-driven strategies can set the foundation for sustained growth in the new year. This checklist will help you take the right steps to ensure your ecommerce store thrives in 2025.

Here’s your ultimate checklist, with actionable tips to grow and thrive next year:

Maximizing Supply Chain Efficiency: The Real Advantages of AI

Maximizing Supply Chain Efficiency: The Real Advantages of AI

If modern retailers know one thing, it’s that no matter how hard you plan, things almost always work out differently than expected. And nowhere is that more true than with your supply chain.

Suppliers, vessels, trucks, warehouses. Supply chains are complex and chaotic by nature. To solve the disconnects between your forecasts and what actually happens on the road, water, or factory floor, you need to be able to act and react as quickly as possible.

The good news is, there’s never been more data available to help you do that. With AI’s ability to crunch...

How to Balance the Risk of Stockouts vs. Overstocks

How to Balance the Risk of Stockouts vs. Overstocks

Stockouts and overstocks are part of the game in modern commerce. But that doesn’t mean you can’t control their impact on your business. 

As a retailer, it’s your job to make sure you have enough of your bestsellers to satisfy demand, while avoiding the trap of overstocked inventory.

Today, we’re taking a closer look at the risks involved with stockouts and overstocks, and sharing practical tips to help you strike the right balance.

3 Ways to Combat Lost Sales Due to Stockouts

3 Ways to Combat Lost Sales Due to Stockouts

If you’re here, you know your inventory mistakes are costing you a lot more than lost or deferred transactions.

Inventory constraints like low inventory, stockouts, and overstocks, can do long-term damage to your margins and future sales. For some, it can take weeks or even months to recover from a single miscalculation in your forecasts.

So, how do you fix it? The solution to inventory problems doesn’t stop at better forecasting. It’s a combination of better planning, better visibility, and quick course correction.

Let’s break it down.

Product Lifecycle Management: 3 Strategies to Boost Your E-Commerce Sales and Profits

Product Lifecycle Management: 3 Strategies to Boost Your E-Commerce Sales and Profits

Imagine waking up to discover that just 17 of your 220 SKUs generated 80% of your profits. For Flieber CEO Fabricio Miranda, this was one of many harsh reality checks in his past e-commerce career.

From that moment on, he began to manage his brand as a portfolio of products, carefully considering the lifecycle phase of each one to maximize growth and profitability

Because the truth is, the steps that got you to early success with a couple of products, aren’t enough to build an enduring brand. As a product matures, you need different strategies to stay...

5 Ways to Measure Lost Sales Due to Inventory Constraints

5 Ways to Measure Lost Sales Due to Inventory Constraints

If you’re like most retailers, you’re losing sales in more ways than you think.

Understanding your lost sales isn’t just about tallying up the number of times you sold less than you should have because you stocked out.

No matter what or where you sell, customer returns, backorders, missed conversions, and lost rankings can all have an impact on your brand’s current and future sales.

To scale your revenue and protect your investment in customer acquisition, here are five things you don’t want to overlook when measuring lost sales.

The 7 elements of profitable retail operations [2024]

The 7 elements of profitable retail operations [2024]

In the early days of e-commerce, effective retail operations were all about increasing top line revenue. All you had to do was be more convenient than in-store shopping and the sales were virtually guaranteed. 

But that was then. As the e-commerce market matures, you need new ways to boost your top and bottom line growth. If the goal is to widen your margins and continue driving sales, you can’t afford to overlook your operations.

In this article, we’ll explore the latest best practices in retail operations and the role of inventory planning in driving...

Choosing a 3PL? 66 Questions to Help You Find The Perfect Partner

Choosing a 3PL? 66 Questions to Help You Find The Perfect Partner

In a recent Anvyl survey, 73% of businesses said they were planning to scale into a new channel over the next 6-12 months. 71% were also looking to add more suppliers to their portfolio.

The problem? Many of these brands are already struggling to manage their supply chains, with 67% still using Excel to plan their inventory and 66% reporting existing overstocks.

“Folks are still facing a lot of difficulties when it comes to managing the first mile of their supply chain,” says Carissa Davis, Senior Customer Success Manager at Anvyl.

Flexport’s Purchase of Shopify Logistics and the Future of Omnichannel Fulfillment

Flexport’s Purchase of Shopify Logistics and the Future of Omnichannel Fulfillment

After years of investing billions of dollars into its own logistics, Shopify has decided it’s time to hand over the reins. Last month, the mega e-commerce platform sold the majority of its logistics operations to key partner, Flexport.

Flieber raises $20 million to bring multichannel inventory optimization to modern retailers

Flieber raises $20 million to bring multichannel inventory optimization to modern retailers

Series A funding will accelerate the company’s expansion in the Shopify and DTC ecosystems.

NEW YORK — Sept 22, 2021 — Flieber, the groundbreaking inventory optimization platform, today announced $12 million in Series A funding. The round was co-led by seed investor GGV Capital and Monashees, and brings the company’s total funding to $20 million. With this recent investment round, Monashees will join GGV on the board of directors where it has served since 2019.