Two of the Target ecommerce packaging centers will be in greater Chicago and one in the Denver area. The expansion will give Target nine of the mini-warehouses in the U.S., and more are planned for the coming years.
Industrial manufacturer Dover Corp. expects to record a significant increase this year in ecommerce sales, which totaled $1 billion, or 13% of total sales, in 2021.
When buyers of its industrial cabling products began placing more orders through its distributors’ ecommerce sites during the pandemic, Prysmian Group realized the time had come to eliminate data silos and upgrade its product information management system to support online sales.
Alaska Rubber Group, a manufacturer and distributor of products like industrial hoses for fuel tankers, is launching a B2B ecommerce strategy to get many of its customers ordering online.
Selling its manufactured pipes directly to oil-and-gas industry customers, Tenaris upgraded its business model with a digital commerce platform that expedites transactions and shares critical information collected from broadly dispersed global operations. The overall effect, Tenaris says, is to make the manufacturer stand out with better and faster service that oil-and-gas and other types of companies need to compete. Above: A Tenaris worker checks pipes marked with tracking codes.
