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Playbooks

Fulfillment & Logistics

Speed, accuracy, and cost discipline win fulfillment. This hub covers 3PL selection, in-house vs. hybrid models, SLAs, chargebacks, cartonization, and pick/pack design. We go deep on routing guides, prep standards, and how freight choices ripple into COGS and CX. You’ll get templates for 3PL scorecards, pricing comparisons, and transition plans, plus tactics for peak season and international shipping. We connect floor-level execution to business-level profit—and show how Endless automates labels, WMS tasks, and exception handling so ops stay smooth even when demand spikes.

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Demand Planning & Forecasting

Planning is profit control. This hub teaches operators to forecast with confidence, translate plans into rock-solid purchase orders, and balance service levels with cash. We cover open-to-buy, seasonality, lead-time risk, MOQs, container math, and vendor scorecards. You’ll get calculators and templates for safety stock, PO timing, and replenishment cadence. We connect the dots between demand signals, PO automation, and warehouse reality—so inventory shows up where and when you need it. You’ll also see how Endless automates PO creation, approvals, and vendor messaging directly from your plan.

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Pricing & Profitability

Margins are a system, not a spreadsheet. This hub covers DTC and wholesale pricing strategy, ladders and breaks, terms, freight recovery, and promos without self-harm. We map how pricing decisions flow into purchase planning, MOQs, and retailer expectations. You’ll find calculators, templates, and negotiation scripts for line reviews and trade shows. We connect wholesale enablement—orders, portals, and compliance—to the P&L so you protect contribution margin while you scale.

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Technology & Integrations

Your stack should reduce chaos, not hide it. This hub explains how to design a modern commerce architecture: product data, order flow, inventory truth, financial sync, and the unglamorous bits—EDI, routing guides, and compliance. We compare ERPs and API-first platforms, outline integration patterns for Shopify + marketplaces + retail, and share migration playbooks that don’t take a year. You’ll see how CommerceOS becomes the command layer that automates exceptions and keeps systems honest.

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Growth & Leadership

Operators don’t need platitudes—they need playbooks. This hub features founder interviews, case studies, and decision frameworks for scaling without losing what makes the brand special. We cover org design for ops, IC vs. automation trade-offs, budgeting for systems, and how to run line reviews and trade shows like a pro. You’ll also find templates for executive dashboards and monthly ops reviews so leadership sees risk before it hits the P&L.

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Mistakes & Lessons Learned

The best operators learn in public. This hub shares honest post-mortems from brands that scaled—and the expensive mistakes they made along the way. We cover over-ordering disasters, chargebacks that spiral, the wrong 3PL choice, botched system migrations, and cash flow crunches hidden in spreadsheets. You’ll find decision trees, red-flag checklists, and "what I’d do differently" frameworks from founders and ops leaders who lived it. We connect the dots between small missteps and big losses—so you can skip the pain and focus on what actually compounds.

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Omnichannel Operations

Omnichannel is where profit is made—or lost. This hub shows operators how to create a single source of truth across DTC, marketplaces, retail, and wholesale so inventory, orders, and financials stay in lockstep. You’ll find practical playbooks for channel setup, catalog normalization, EDI compliance, wholesale portals, and error-proof routing. We contrast legacy ERPs with modern, API-first stacks so you can scale without adding headcount. Expect checklists, templates, and before → after—workflows you can copy. Throughout, we show how CommerceOS unifies data and automates the busywork so your team focuses on growth, not cleanup.

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Share Your Lessons

Built something that worked? Made a mistake worth sharing? We want to hear from operators who’ve been in the trenches. If you’ve scaled a brand, navigated a messy migration, or learned an expensive lesson the hard way—your story belongs here. We’ll work with you to turn your experience into a playbook others can use.

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