Oakland Park, FL -- (SBWIRE) -- 02/07/2017 -- Manufacturing journalist, Thomas R. Cutler recently discussed how e-commerce is now a main driver of growth across retail, wholesale, and manufacturing alike. Cutler reported in Automation and Controls Today magazine that e-commerce retail sales in the US grew at nearly 15% last year, about 10 times the 1.5% growth rate for retail overall. To seize this opportunity, shippers need to integrate their e-commerce fulfillment with transportation management capabilities.
E-commerce is driving increasing complexity in logistics and more companies are learning how to build an integrated approach that enables omni-fulfillment, increasing customer service, while controlling costs.
The changes to shipping are continuously evolving, with shippers accommodating increased home delivery, drop shipments, and international customers. The opportunities are exploding, but transportation needs to have an integrated strategy, and in many cases the additional revenue growth will be offset by higher costs. A path to profitable and flexible growth is essential.
Automation & Controls Today is a well-respected international business-to-business publication highlighting advances in manufacturing, industry, and logistics.
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About TR Cutler, Inc.
TR Cutler, Inc. was founded seventeen years ago by Thomas R. Cutler. Cutler is the President and CEO of Fort Lauderdale, Florida-based, TR Cutler, Inc., (http://www.trcutlerinc.com), the largest manufacturing communication firm worldwide with four dozen industry experts and thought leaders on staff. Cutler maintains extraordinary relationships with clients, journalists, editors, economists, trendsetters, and key business leaders worldwide and has become a key resource for those writing about the manufacturing sector. Cutler founded the Manufacturing Media Consortium in 1999, which now has more than 6,000 global members including journalists, editors, publishers, and economists, worldwide writing about trends, industrial data, manufacturing case studies, material handling profiles, and robotics feature articles. Cutler works with thousands of media outlets to expand the coverage and importance of the manufacturing media coverage.
Cutler has authored more than 6,000 articles for a wide range of manufacturing periodicals, industrial publications, and business journals each published in leading monthly trade magazines, B2B periodicals, blogs, and marquis publications globally. Cutler is the most published freelance industrial journalist worldwide, and more than 3500 industry leaders follow Cutler on Twitter daily at @ThomasRCutler.