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Shipping Inconsistencies Plague Nonessential eCommerce

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Nonessential retail is highly dependent – in some cases, completely dependent – on eCommerce during the COVID-19 crisis. And eCommerce success is dependent upon shipping. Because as anyone who has ordered a nonessential item over the past few weeks can attest, eCommerce shipping has become a guessing game. Where is it located?

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Spring Cleaning Edition: 5 Tips for FP&A Teams to Keep Data Clean and Organized

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Long cycles- Each budget or forecast entails many steps that are extremely time-consuming. Cleaning Tip #3 Prioritize your tasks by tracking KPIs. Ecommerce integrations- If a business has an ecommerce aspect then integrating the system into the finance team is a must for the fastest and best results.

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JP Morgan: Treasury Innovations Accelerate Digital Transformation

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Helping clients prioritize digitization would depend on where the company is in the journey. There are digital-native companies, especially in areas like eCommerce, where their ability to continue to stay in business primarily because they were digital has enabled them to take faster leadership in that space,” Kanthadai said.

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New Year’s Resolution: The Clearing House Urges Banks To Become 24/7 Operations

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Whether it was helping small businesses get their PPP payments or convert to eCommerce, getting cash in the hands of workers delivering food, or accommodating digitized mortgage closing and escrow activity, the coronavirus has foisted a lot of change on the financial services industry in a short amount of time. “A

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Is Amazon Missing Its Time To Shine?

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A logistics powerhouse by design and a commerce giant by any reasonable measure, Amazon seemed the firm ideally suited to step into the world of social distancing where all commerce was overnight eCommerce. Nearly a month into the COVID-19 crisis, it seems that forecasts were perhaps a bit premature.

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3 Must-Know Dark Social Finance Communities

The Finance Weekly

As CFOs they are prioritizing tech spend but are seeing multiplying service providers vying for their attention. It's also where you'll find CFOs in a private setting, discussing jobs, careers, various challenges, and needs for processes and automation. Particularly CFOs have joined dark social in fast-growing numbers. Why you might ask?

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Department Store Outlook Grim For 2017

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After a subpar holiday shopping season, research firm Moody’s announced that it had revised down its forecast for the sector’s operating income. But leaner inventory levels and other efforts to boost earnings don’t appear to be sufficient, and as a result, we have lowered our 2016 forecast and become more cautious on 2017.”.