How to Turn Fulfillment into a Growth Engine: Patrick Allard’s Playbook

About this episode

Patrick Allard shares insights on turning fulfillment into a growth engine through strategic approaches and operational challenges.

Patrick Allard, President of Fulfillment Services at Essendant, shares two decades of logistics and e-commerce fulfillment expertise. He breaks down connected commerce as a strategic imperative, discusses the tech and operational challenges in modern fulfillment, and reveals when to scale vs. stabilize 3PL operations amid evolving customer expectations and market dynamics.

People in this episode

Hosts: Ninaad Acharya, Dan Coll

Guest: Patrick Allard

Topics covered

• fulfillment
• logistics
• e-commerce
• connected commerce
• 3PL operations
• customer expectations

Keywords

• fulfillment
• logistics
• e-commerce
• connected commerce
• 3PL
• customer expectations
• market dynamics

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Essendant, Fulfillment Services

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