BNET Business Dictionary

Business Definition for: Fulfillment

  • the process of responding to customer inquiries, orders, or sales promotion offers

Wiktionary Definition for: Fulfillment

  • the state of being fulfilled

Additional Resources

Fulfillment PLUS Provides Fine Art Of Fulfillment for MuseumShop.com
WALTHAM, Mass.--BUSINESS WIRE--Nov. 30, 1999-- Fulfillment PLUS, Inc. (www.ffplus.com), the company that adds the human touch to dot com fulfillment, today announced that MuseumShop.com (www.museumshop.com) has selected Fulfillment Plus as its fulfillment and customer service partner. MuseumShop.com, the largest online store for museum and cultural gifts, selected Fulfillment PLUS...
Tags: Fulfillment Plus Inc.
Research articles 1999-11-30
5 Approaches to Order Fulfillment
"Article define about the 5 Approaches to Order Fulfillment. Fulfillment is simple at a brick and mortar store. The customer pays for the merchandise and carries it away. However, fulfillment is more complicated for a mail order business or a business that is selling via the Internet. Fulfillment includes...
Tags: Fulfillment, Sales Channel, Sales
White papers 2003-01-01
The Global Enabled Supply And Demand Chain Series: Fulfillment And Logistics
Recognition of the fulfillment function's value to supply and demand chain management makes sense when customer function is recognized. Fulfillment is the most critical step in gauging how well a business is meeting its customers' needs. This article says that ignoring fulfillment and logistics in one's company's supply and demand...
Tags: Fulfillment, Demand Chain, Logistics, Cygnus Business Media, Pricing, Supply Chain, Marketing, Business Operations
White papers 2003-07-01
Vcommerce Launches New E-Commerce Fulfillment Solution for Ritz Interactive; Single integration enables control, flexibility and optimal fulfillment for multiple specialty online retail sites
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Vcommerce Corporation, the market leader in on-demand e-commerce and fulfillment solutions, has launched an advanced fulfillment solution for Ritz Interactive, an award-winning, specialty online retailer and e-commerce service provider that operates a network of websites offering high quality, branded lifestyle products. The Vcommerce fulfillment solution gives Ritz...
Tags: Ritz Interactive Inc.
Research articles 2006-07-20
Staples.(purchased a multichannel fulfillment center in Montgomery, N.Y.)(Brief Article)
Staples has purchased a multichannel fulfillment center in Montgomery, N.Y., to serve its contract, catalog and e-commerce customers. Formerly occupied by Service Merchandise, the fulfillment center is 765,000 sq. ft. and was built in 1986 on 80 ac Staples has purchased a multichannel fulfillment...
Tags: Staples Inc.
Research articles 2000-11-16
SwiftCD offers Custom On-Demand CD/DVDs and Fulfillment with PayPal
DVD News 08-15-2003 SwiftCD offers Custom On-Demand CD/DVDs and Fulfillment with PayPal DVD NEWS-15 August 2003-SwiftCD offers Custom On-Demand CD/DVDs and Fulfillment with PayPal C1999-2003 DVD News. Distributed for AM Newswire Inc via M2 Co DVD News ...
Tags: CD, DVD, on-demand, PayPal
Research articles 2003-08-15
Printers move into fulfillment operations
Heralding what is likely to become a rush of printers into the circulation fulfillment business, Quad/Graphics has signed a letter of intent to purchase Newsweek's domestic and international fulfillment operations.The Pewaukee, Wisconsin-based printing company plans to start its own fulfillment service - called Quad/Data Systems - and to aggressively challenge...
Tags: FINANCE, fulfillment, HARDWARE, Newsweek, Printers, printing, Quad, SOFTWARE
Research articles 1995-01-15
Fosdick Fulfillment.(Brief article)
Fosdick Fulfillment expanded its Connecticut and Nevada facility locations. The expansion includes an additional 125,000 square feet in Fosdick Fulfillment's Connecticut locations and 75,000 square feet in its Nevada locations. Fosdick Fulfillment operates more than 750,000 square feet nationally with centralization of all technology, systems ...
Tags: Fosdick Fulfillment Corp.
Research articles 2005-11-01
Princeton Fulfillment Solutions Acquires M&B Technologies
New Combined Entity Will Deliver eBusiness Services to the Marketplace HAMILTON, N.J. -- Princeton Fulfillment Solutions, LLC today announced that it has acquired M&B Technologies, effective February 6, 2009. M&B Technologies is a 25-year-old leader in eCommerce solutions, custom software applications and fulfillment services. Princeton Fulfillment Solutions will be...
Tags: Direct Group
Research articles 2009-02-11
Fulfillment Direct Selects Ecometry Suite of E-Business Applications; Smith-Gardner Software to Play Key Role in Company's Expansion
Business Editors & High Tech Writers DELRAY BEACH, Fla.--BUSINESS WIRE--Aug. 28, 2000 Fulfillment Direct (www.efilldirect.com), the fulfillment experts for the e-commerce industry, today announced that they will implement Smith-Gardner's (NASDAQ:SGAI) Ecometry, a suite of advanced front-end customer relationship management applications fully integrated with comprehensive back-office e-fulfillment functions. As...
Tags: Ecometry Corp.
Research articles 2000-08-28
Fulfillment Direct Selects Ecometry Suite of E-Business Applications; Smith-Gardner Software to Play Key Role in Company's Expansion
Business Editors & High Tech Writers DELRAY BEACH, Fla.--BUSINESS WIRE--Aug. 28, 2000 Fulfillment Direct (www.efilldirect.com), the fulfillment experts for the e-commerce industry, today announced that they will implement Smith-Gardner's (NASDAQ:SGAI) Ecometry, a suite of advanced front-end customer relationship management applications fully integrated with comprehensive back-office e-fulfillment functions. As...
Tags: Ecometry Corp.
Research articles 2000-08-29
7 Ways To Immediately Increase Order Fulfillment Speed
Although "the customer is king" is an age-old caveat in the business world, the advent of the Internet and rapid emergence of e-business has put customers in a new and even stronger position. But, a question that arises is that how does a company go about ratcheting up its order-fulfillment...
Tags: Speed, Industrial Data & Information, Internet, Web Technology, E-business/E-Commerce
White papers 2003-01-01
Outsourcing Fulfillment May Be Company‘s Smartest Move
SmartBargains, entering its second year of combing overstock, liquidation and closeout sales for products to post on its web site, felt it made good business sense for someone else to shoulder the cost of warehousing and fulfillment infrastructure. Relinquishing control of its fulfillment operation to an outside party may turn...
Tags: Web, Fulfillment, Keller International Publishing, Outsourcing, Sales Strategy, Web Site Development, Channel Management, Web Technology, Sales Force Management, Sales, Internet, Marketing
Case studies 2002-02-01
Online Order Fulfillment: Smoothing The Process
In the rush to market subscriptions on the Web, getting prospects to view offers is only the first part of the battle. Minimizing aborted orders, cancellations and non-pays by ensuring a user-friendly ordering process, timely fulfillment and quality customer service are the other half of the success equation. Circulation and...
Tags: Fulfillment, Primedia Inc., Product Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Security, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software
White papers 2000-01-01
Fulfillment: Rage Against The Machine
From the executive summary: ‘Oddly, CFOs at many click-and-mortar operations barely look at e-fulfillment performance, let alone track it by the hour. In fact, most finance managers do not monitor the delivery of online goods at all, choosing instead to let executives in customer service or logistics handle the chore....
Tags: Fulfillment, CFO Publishing Corp., Supply Chain, Roi/Tco, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Finance, Managerial Accounting
White papers 2000-12-15
Delivering Fulfillment Excellence: A Global Survey on Fulfillment Trends and Performance
Fulfillment is a term defined simply as "completion of a sales order" or as elaborately as a process that supplies a product directly from a manufacturing facility to a distributor or end user. The fulfillment cycle may include receiving customer orders, configuring the products to order, shipping and invoicing products...
Tags: Supply Chain, Fulfillment, Performance, Accenture Ltd., Survey, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Enterprise Software, Software
White papers 2005-01-29
Direct Fulfillment Achieves 99.5 Percent Average Quality Performance Accuracy With HighJump Software
Direct Fulfillment is a third-party Logistics Provider (3PL) based in Robbinsville, N.J. systems could manage. With the addition of several large customer accounts, Direct Fulfillment's manual warehouse operations and lack of visibility into inventory and order status began to hamper its ability to execute processes effectively. Direct Fulfillment selected HighJump's...
Tags: HighJump Software Inc., Performance, 3PL, 3M Co., Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Business Operations
Case studies 2004-10-01
Outsourcing Your E-Commerce Order Fulfillment
When your eCommerce business grows to the point where you can no longer package and ship the orders yourself, it is the time to consider outsourcing your order fulfillment. Fulfillment warehouses offer small business the opportunity to compete with the big dogs. This paper takes a look at the benefits...
Tags: Fulfillment, E-business, PowerHomeBiz.com, Outsourcing, Web Technology, E-business/E-Commerce, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Internet
White papers 2004-10-18
Corning Life Sciences Reduces Marketing Costs with TagTeam; Reductions in Print and Fulfillment Costs, Ability to Provide Up-to-Date Literature to All Audiences Realized Since Implementing TagTeam Solution
MAYNARD, Mass. -- Longwood Software today announced that Corning Life Sciences is using TagTeamR to meet a business goal of reducing print and fulfillment costs. Thanks to TagTeam's electronic fulfillment capabilities, including Print-on-Demand, Corning Life Sciences has been able to reduce inventory, eliminate the need for a fulfillment house, and...
Tags: Corning Inc., life science, marketing
Research articles 2005-10-03
OSS Observer puts Telcordia #1 in Fulfillment, Inventory, Order Management; Telcordia Demonstrates Unparalleled Capabilities in the Service Fulfillment and Assurance Sector According To OSS Observer
PISCATAWAY, N.J. -- Telcordia is the clear market leader in Inventory, Network Resource Management and Service Fulfillment according to a newly released report from OSS Observer, one of the leading market research firms analyzing the telecom software market. The results of this report continue to demonstrate Telcordia's unique industry-leading position...
Tags: order management, OSS, Telcordia Technologies
Research articles 2006-03-07
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