News / Retailers outsource ecommerce fulfilment in structural shift

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Increasingly, e-commerce providers and online merchants are turning to logistics firms to manage their fulfilment.

James Gagne, CEO of Seko Logistics, has seen a “really serious uptick” in a trend that shows companies abandoning their efforts to manage the fulfilment component of their supply chain in-house.

They are looking for help to make their inventory more fungible across wholesale, retail and direct-to-consumer channels to make it more agnostic, he reported.

The trend has been building up over the past four to six months, ...