magento webinar: connecting the endless aisle to the virtual supply chain
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Connecting the Endless Aisle to the Virtual Supply Chain
Todd Rankin (VP Marketing, DropShip Commerce), Eric Chaffee (VP Product, DropShip Commerce) & Nikki Baird, (Managing Partner, Retail Systems Research)
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Today’s Presenters
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Introduction: •Todd Rankin, VP Marketing, DropShip Commerce
Market Problem: •Nikki Baird, Managing Partner, Retail Systems Research
Drop Ship Challenges & Magento: •Eric Chaffee, VP Product, DropShip Commerce
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What Is RSR?
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• Market Intelligence, focused on retail
• Context: the business challenges & opportunities that drive technology investments
• Pragmatic insights
• Powered by extensive retail experience
• Fueled by a deep bed of research data
• We help retailers keep their IT strategies aligned with corporate objectives
• We help solution providers align their products and messages with retailers’ needs
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My Role Today: Context
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• The Gold Rush days of digital channels are nearly over
• Retailers are getting down to the hard parts of execution
• But they’re ignoring a big opportunity related to endless aisle
• Visibility is a solution that solves lots of problems, and its time has come
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Retailers Expect Digital Commerce to Continue to Grow
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Source: Survey “The Multi-Channel Retailer’s Reality in a Post-Amazon World”, RSR Research, November 2012
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The Opportunities Are Still Significant
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Source: “Omni-Channel 2012: Cross-Channel Comes of Age”, RSR Research, June 2012
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For Every Kind of Retailer
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Source: “The Multi-Channel Retailer’s Reality in a Post-Amazon World”, RSR Research, November 2012
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But More Difficult to Get
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Source: “Omni-Channel 2012: Cross-Channel Comes of Age”, RSR Research, June 2012
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Focus Shifts From Brand Promise to Execution
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Source: “Omni-Channel 2012: Cross-Channel Comes of Age”, RSR Research, June 2012
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Retailers Know Customer Expectations Only Rise
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Source: “Executing on the Promise: Retail Fulfillment 2012”, RSR Research, July 2012
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Supply Chain is Running Out of Runway
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Source: “Executing on the Promise: Retail Fulfillment 2012”, RSR Research, July 2012
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Inventory & Fulfillment Remain Sticking Points
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Source: “Omni-Channel 2012: Cross-Channel Comes of Age”, RSR Research, June 2012
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Visibility – The Hardest
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Source: “Omni-Channel 2012: Cross-Channel Comes of Age”, RSR Research, June 2012
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Retailers Can’t See Very Far
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Source: “Executing on the Promise: Retail Fulfillment 2012”, RSR Research, July 2012
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Fixing Internal Systems is a Long Road
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Source: “Executing on the Promise: Retail Fulfillment 2012”, RSR Research, July 2012
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Why Isn’t Drop Ship on the List?
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Source: “Executing on the Promise: Retail Fulfillment 2012”, RSR Research, July 2012
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Ask Yourself These Questions
• What is my growth strategy for my online channels? – More customers?– More from existing customers?– More assortment?
• What visibility does my company have today?• When was the last time my company explored virtual
inventory?• How many of my suppliers have “gone direct”?• What percent of my suppliers’ inventory do I carry on my
site?
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Turning your Magento Store into an endless aisle
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What do you need?
1. Lots of Products2. Which means lots of vendors3. Which turn into a lot of orders4. Which turn into a lot customers
And do it all with out it costing you lots of time and money …
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How do you plan on …
• Getting Products into your Magento store?– What file types will you
accept– What data do you want– Do you want to put
everything on or just some things
• Getting orders to your vendors?– Can you take a Magento
order from multiple vendors and break them up into individual vendor orders?
– Can you get up to date status on those orders for your customers
$ $ $
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You need to be able to do …
• These tasks prior to exchanging data with your trading partners:1. Create the requirements and business
processes you want your vendor community to follow
2. Publish your Trading Partner Specifications with required and optional fields
3. Determine the vendor setup process
• These tasks concurrently with the vendor on-boarding process1. Determine which systems need data for
drop shipping2. Develop the Integration points between
Magento, your ERP and your vendors3. Automate the integrations
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Product DataVendor
Orders
(x 100’s)
Typical Drop Shipping Integration Challenges
ERP
Consumer Orders
Consumers
(x 1,000’s)
Product Data
Vendor Orders
✖ Multiple Formats for Product Data
✖ Your ERP needs to create vendor orders out of a consumer/retailer order
✖ Each vendor is a unique integration for each document
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Introducing DropShip Commerce
Dropship Commerce is the scalable online platform for integrating and managing drop ship partners, inventory, data, and orders. By handling the exchange of data through a single connection and integration point, Dropship Commerce helps trading partners streamline operations, generate more sales, and fulfill more orders using the virtual supply chain.
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DropShip Commerce Product
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Robust User Interface
Provides:100% Open Standard based
SaaS - No Hardware or Software required
A single place to aggregate, normalize and filter vendor product information.
Visibility to the entire drop ship order lifecycle
Get up to the minute view of your inventory-less supply chain
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Drop Shipping Simplified
ERP
Consumer Orders
(x 100’s)
Product
Vendor Orders
Vendor Orders
Product Product
Single integration point to your vendors and Magento
Ability to split consumer orders into vendor orders
Ability to support multiple vendor formats
Consumers
(x 1,000’s)
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Getting Started
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Magento Extension
• Connector Overview• On Connect Marketplace Today• Sign Up with Us First
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Set Up Process
• Easy to get set up • Month to Month SaaS subscription• To get started:
• Webinar on Magento & QuickBook Extensions
– March 27th
– Visit www.dropship.com to sign up
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