Supply Chain Integration: 3PL or 4PL?

By Ruth Richter • April 08, 2020

Third-party logistics—or 3PL—isn’t a new terminology for most. Initially coined in the 1970s, this marked the departure from transportation contracts that only featured the shipper and the carrier. Once intermediaries that could take the shipments from shippers and transfer them to rail carriers came into...

5 Ways to Improve Your Ecommerce Checkout Process

By Ruth Richter • April 01, 2020

This spring has seen a huge shift in how people buy in response to isolation orders and uncertainty. Consumers are shifting what, when, and how they’re buying, moving to bulk purchases and online shopping. Ecommerce is growing even as the opportunity to purchase in-store is...

ROI Adds Customer Development Director to Management Team

By Ruth Richter • March 30, 2020

New Position Enables Continued Focus on Customers and Partners   Bellevue, NE – March 30, 2020 – ROI, Inc., the developer of IN-SYNCH® and the market leader in Sage 100cloud integration solutions, announced that Kim Zertuche has joined the company as Customer Development Director. “ROI...

Prepare for the Future of Warehousing Logistics with Integration

By Ruth Richter • March 25, 2020

The future of warehousing logistics is driven by online shopping. In the US alone, 91% of the population is expected to shop online by 2023. The recent coronavirus scare has driven even more consumers to shop online instead of at their local stores. The change...

Alternatives to EDI for Sage 100 Integration

By Ruth Richter • March 18, 2020

Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) software has been around for decades and has been considered vital in B2B communications for a long time. Ecommerce businesses especially use EDI software to transmit key data in a paperless environment. This reduces how long it takes to receive information...

Don’t Pass Up PaaS: Why it Could Be Just What Your Ecommerce Needs

By Ruth Richter • March 11, 2020

In 2000, Salesforce’s now famous “No Software” marketing campaign seemed to come out of the blue.  Today, SaaS accounts for nearly a quarter of all enterprise workloads and platform as a service (PaaS) has grown in popularity to own nearly a third of enterprise workloads; and,...

Does Your Ecommerce Site Meet WCAG Accessibility Standards?

By Ruth Richter • February 26, 2020

Typically, when we think of making things accessible to individuals with disabilities, ramps, Braille signage, and sign language interpreters might come to mind, but that also extends to digital and what users of all abilities can access on the internet. As of early 2019, Hootsuite...

The Top Ecommerce Trends to Watch: Custom Packaging

By Ruth Richter • February 12, 2020

You never get another chance to make a first impression. This oft-quoted colloquialism is true not only in life, but also in product packaging. This is proven in the difference between a brand name product and a generic version. While the contents might be exactly...