Next month TAGG will return to the Natural Products Expo West. This is the largest trade show for supplements, health & beauty aids and consumer goods representing the trend for more natural, organic and environmentally friendly products. It is also the single largest gathering of TAGG clients. We look forward to seeing some old friends and meeting some new ones. This year, one of our new clients...
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As an outsourced fulfillment and distribution company, one thing we do is provide warehouse space to our clients. Obviously I'm a fan of outsourcing, it's our business and I'm always telling prospects a big reason you outsource is to trade fixed costs for variable costs. At TAGG, like most order fulfillment providers, you only pay for your actual activity - how many inbounds you have, your storage...
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Report on 2011 e-Commerce Results for 2011
Those of us in the e-Commerce fulfillment business are starting to recover from our Holiday hangover. I know at TAGG it was an extremely busy December as we fulfilled orders for our direct-to-consumer internet clients, as well as provided catalog fulfillment services. We are starting to get reports on sales for the Holiday season and the numbers back...
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Managing transportation costs is always tricky and the carriers don’t make it any easier with their annual Christmas gift…..rate increases! UPS announced 6.9% air increases partially offset by a 2% fuel surcharge reduction, and 4.9% average ground increase, offset by 1% fuel surcharge reduction. Similarly, FedEx announced average rate increases of 5.9% for Express and International services,...
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There are a lot of reasons many people consider this the most wonderful time of the year. Those of us in the fulfillment world might just have a little different twist. Today typically marks the busiest shipping day of the year. Both FedEx and UPS are projecting record days today. FedEx alone is estimating 17 million packages will move through their system! Better news is that this represents...
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If you manufacture some of America’s best-known oral care products, wouldn’t you take every opportunity to tell the world? And use every product shipment as another way to sell even more? This manufacturer saw its packing lists as a chance to do both.
So imagine its surprise when the current 3PL fulfillment and distribution company said no way. Can’t be done. A customized packing list? That’s...
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TAGG recently added a client in our Reno, Nevada facility who makes and markets a new device providing sound treatment for tinnitus. Critical to this medical device manufacture's distribution system was adherence to FDA requirements for a unique serial number identifier to each device going to patients and providers. TAGG's warehouse management system is able to record the serial number attributed...
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Imagine you make one of the world’s leading lines of oral care products. You’ve become so popular, you’re the talk-of-the-town. Problem is, you have so many orders now that you’re outgrowing your current third-party logistics provider (3PL). What can you do to keep your customers smiling?
We had the right answer for this manufacturer, just as we have had for so many others. Because I see this...
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Yesterday we celebrated our 5-year anniversary. TAGG started in 1979 but the current ownership purchased the company in 2006. It has been a very eventful five years with lots of changes, new clients and new faces joining the TAGGteam! We feel blessed to have achieved such success and owe much of it to our co-workers and our clients. I always talk about "partnerships." Reflecting on the 5 years,...
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TAGG is headed back to the Natural Products Expo. We are looking forward to visiting with our existing clients who exhibit at the world largest natural, organic and health products trade show and meeting with several new clients who will be joining TAGG in the coming months. Exhibitors at the Expo, in particular the supplements and nutraceuticals area as well as the natural and organic consumer...
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