Fulfillment Partner Best Practices Lower Costs and Risk of Stockouts Demand planning analytics provided by your fulfillment partner are critical to ensuring the right inventory is in the right place at the right time. What’s more, multiple-point fulfillment across a fulfillment…
Often times, people initially think of a TMS as a simple tool in routing freight from origin to destination. Although, this is a core feature, utilizing a TMS during the fulfillment process creates greater efficiency and productivity in the daily operations….
Once the holidays are over, most people feel a sense of relief that events such as gift shopping, meal planning, and the general hustle and bustle are surely coming to an end. However, e-retailers have a second rush to look forward…
Beginning immediately after the holiday season (Dec 29th for UPS and Jan 1st for FedEx), shipping majors UPS and FedEx will be introducing a new form of package pricing. Typically priced by weight, UPS and FedEx now plan to price packages…
Just in time for the holiday season to begin, the US Postal Service is cutting down on their prices in order to attract more e-commerce business. Prices can be expected to fall as much as 58% for certain priority mail delivery,…
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%…
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