The Consumer Marketplace and Retailers’ Shifting Accounting Needs

The keystone of retailers new business strategy: finding ways to facilitate more direct supplier-to-consumer transactions. To accommodate new tactics such as drop shipping and third-party marketplaces, some big-box and e-commerce retailers are shedding their own warehouse space while distributors and logistics firms acquire more. In many cases, these firms are starting to modernize the equipment in current facilities to handle the swelling volume of online orders.