“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” You’ve probably heard this saying before, a lot. While many business systems aren’t necessarily broken, they could still benefit from improvements and upgrades. This sentiment is especially true in logistics and warehouse management. For decades, not much changed, principally because warehouses, forklifts, trucks, and other equipment do not …
Your business — in some ways, it’s very similar to many other companies in the same space, yet in others, it is intensely unique. Your product offerings and corporate culture definitely make yours one-of-a-kind, but like the other companies, you’re finding that you’re putting more and more time and resources into keeping your supply lines …
With the growth of e-commerce, many businesses depend on third-party logistics providers to manage their distribution, storage, and fulfillment. Their “pick, pack, and ship” expertise might be an unrecognized part of the customer journey, but it’s vital to the customer experience. If there are problems in fulfillment, customers will not blame the 3PL — they’ll …
Now more than ever, e-commerce businesses need to get their products to customers as quickly and efficiently as possible, and introducing robotics into their operation is value-added. Relying on a fulfillment and logistics partner with significant industry experience and investing heavily in advanced technology can change the game significantly. According to Material Handling and Logistics magazine, $1.5 trillion …
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the worldwide economy previously unseen in living memory, and its GDP impact on the economy is yet to be fully realized. While we don’t yet know when the pandemic will be fully behind us, it’s clear that the normal of tomorrow won’t be quite like the one we left behind. However, there …
E-commerce distribution and fulfillment strategy isn’t a “one and done” exercise. The market can change unpredictably from one year to the next, and you’ll need to change with it. There are several ways to thrive with this variability, of course. A universal method is to orient your business around a handful of core “best practices,” …
You may have found a great product that you want to sell and a ready, willing target market of buyers for it. There’s just one issue: you’re not quite sure how to ship it. With all the other issues you need to handle while running your business, you shouldn’t have to worry about shipping products requiring special …
Maybe you’re a small business. It all starts with an online business idea — you have a product, do some marketing, the wheels of commerce start turning, and now you find there are people out there buying what you are selling. Now you’re at a tipping point: the orders are coming in fast and furious, …
It’s hard for any single company to do everything superlatively well. At some point, most businesses face the decision of whether to keep all operations in-house or to outsource some functions such as warehousing and fulfillment to specialist partners to focus on their core competencies. If you’ve opted to outsource your warehousing to a third-party …
Whew! You have designed and either built or sourced great products. You have efficient manufacturing partners, and your marketing is scaling. Customers are finding you online, and orders are rolling in steadily. But the big question is: can you be — or do you want to be — the one to fulfill and ship all …