The State of E-Commerce and Its Supply Chain

Supply chain professionals and executives provide insight into consumer-driven trends, the technology helping top companies adapt and the e-commerce strategies changing the future of the supply chain.

September 2, 2021

E Commerce And The Supply Chain

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E-commerce has been an important term and concept in the retail industry for the last two decades, with continued growth since its inception. But, in just one year, the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic pushed e-commerce dramatically forward in a short period of time just out of sheer necessity in a way never seen before.

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