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Running head: OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE IN ECOMMERCE LOGISTICS 1
Operational Excellence in Ecommerce Logistics
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OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE IN ECOMMERCE LOGISTICS 2
OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE IN ECOMMERCE LOGISTICS
E-commerce has sparked in recent years, and its blooming at an alarming rate and most
small online business are finding it difficult to cope with competitors such as Amazon, among
others. Thus Distribution consultation of online platforms is a niche market that needs to be filled.
There is a massive gap in the market since established organizations such as Amazon are
distributing using sophisticated methods such as drones to deliver products door to door. Small
ecommerce platforms are finding the pressure unbearable; thus, there products being damaged on
the way or delay to reach customers hence the bad reputation.
Small or start-ups businesses are struggling and do not have sufficient warehousing to store
other products, most of them are gambling with their product and services. Thus Distribution
Consulting of these small and average scale business will be based on information and insights
from data analytics (Bourlakis et al., 2018). This will be done by helping companies conduct
preliminary research on their product in the market and suggest what customer's preference might
be, and anticipate which geographic regions that are likely to purchase their products. This way,
they can set up warehouses in those regions to take goods and services closer to customers. Already
established online companies have their online stores everywhere, thus outsmarting the small
businesses.
Other logistic Consulting Companies such as Supply Consulting chain Group, IPS
Worldwide, and Red Stag Fulfilment focus on delivering products from organizations to their
customers or warehouses in different regions. For instance, Red Stag Fulfilment manages
warehouses' management systems to track the inventories (Zhang et al., 2017). None of these
companies has focused on small businesses or using data and analytics to offer better services for
their clients. Their clients face overloading and surges; even if the inventories are correct, it does

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Running head: OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE IN ECOMMERCE LOGISTICS Operational Excellence in Ecommerce Logistics Institutional Affiliation Student Name Instructor Course Date 1 OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE IN ECOMMERCE LOGISTICS 2 OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE IN ECOMMERCE LOGISTICS E-commerce has sparked in recent years, and its blooming at an alarming rate and most small online business are finding it difficult to cope with competitors such as Amazon, among others. Thus Distribution consultation of online platforms is a niche market that needs to be filled. There is a massive gap in the market since established organizations such as Amazon are distributing using sophisticated methods such as drones to deliver products door to door. Small ecommerce platforms are finding the pressure unbearable; thus, there products being damaged on the way or delay to reach customers hence the bad reputation. Small or start-ups businesses are struggling and do not have sufficient warehousing to store other products, most of them are gambling with their product and services. Thus Distribution Consulting of these small and average scale business will be based on information and insights from data analytics (Bour ...
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