WCA eCommerce 1st Annual Conference Workshop 1
Topic: Adding value to your eCommerce Division
Speaker:
Rob Donald - Director & Founder
Sam Yauner - Director & Founder
Corten Logistics UK
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1. What are your customers eCommerce
needs?2. Do your customers sell via eCommerce
domestically?3. Do they sell via eCommerce in other regions?
4. Do your customers sell on Amazon
Domestically?5. Do your customers sell on Amazon
Globally?6. Are you only handling their cargo from Point to
Point?7. What happens to their cargo after it hits their Warehouse?
8. What eCommerce services do your WCA partners need?
9. What eCommerce services do your WCA partners offer?
10. Is there a VALUE ADDED SERVICE you offer?
11. Is there a VALUE ADDED SERVICE you could utilise?
12. Can you use another WCA member to do the heavy
lifting?13. Can you develop you business model to fit NEW requirements?
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ADAPT 1. Do you need to upgrade & develop your IT
system?2. Do you need to re-train & develop your staff?
3. Do you need to develop your Business model?
4. Do you need to develop your WCA
partnerships?5. Do you need to develop your EDI connectivity?
6. Do you need to understand International VAT regulations?
7. Do you need to develop automated systems?
8. Are you already ready to go?
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A Disruptive Innovation:
A disruptive innovation is an innovation that
creates a new market and value network and
eventually disrupts an existing market and value
network, displacing established market leading
firms, products and alliances. - Wikipedia
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Alibaba.com, the original platform, along
with Taobao, AliExpress, 1688.com,
TMall.com and Tmall Global provides
portals for business-to-business sales and
for brands to sell to consumers, as
Amazon does in the west. - FT.com
The unsexist trillion-dollar startup - TECHCRUNCH
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“With $26.9 million in funding, Flexport grew the
volume of goods it ships by 16X in 2016”
Jeff Bezos says “Everyday is Day One”
Flying Warehouses, Drones, Automated
Warehouses, Own airline, Home Assistants…
Currently looking for 3000 warehouses in Europe!!
THE DISTRUPTORS!
ELON MUSK is bring self driving
trucks very soon… Be ready!
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HEADPHONES
72 HOURS NOTICE
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