Its not easy managing your companys shipping effort. You have to be concerned about product availability, warehouse management, moving your shipments more quickly, maintaining the status of your shipments... View More
With the creation of Parcel Shipping & Distribution magazine, we at RB Publishing were leaders in recognizing the growing importance of parcels in the supply chain. Parcel Shipping & Distribution highlighted... View More
Subtitle: ssIf you are not interested in seeing the implementation of your warehouse management system (WMS) succeed, its quite easy to ensure the systems failure. Just follow these five steps, and... View More
For most retailers, the quality of both their products and their reputation hinges on the abilities of their vendors. In the perfect business world, catalog and Internet retailers would be able to manufacture,... View More
Todays warehouse managers face a number of challenges. Customers demand nearly 100% order accuracy; there are smaller and more frequent orders that cover a greater number of SKUs; and senior management... View More
The objective is simple: Have the goods arrive at their destinations in satisfactory condition and at minimum expense. The challenge is that products can be damaged and that packaging materials, labor... View More
Summer is over, and our children are back in school. Whew! We all know how valuable learning is for our children, but how about you? Are you facing tremendous changes in your organization? Are you... View More
Technology is supposed to make our jobs easier, and there is perhaps nowhere that this is more true than in the shipping arena. In our industry, there is a multitude of tedious tasks that need to be performed:... View More
A common sentiment shared by most transportation managers is that each claims to have the lowest carrier rates. Most shippers achieve some level of base discount and other concessions during carrier contract... View More
Back in the last century, the Internet was going to be the great leveler in the mail order industry (if you remember the term Mail Order, you may be older than some of the new start-ups!). And in many... View More
Earlier this year, the U.S. Postal Service unveiled plans for 2007 and beyond, and to say the changes are sweeping would be an understatement. If you ship packages through the Postal Service (and these... View More
Carrier surcharges and add-on fees are proliferating and rising. And we hear again and again from all types of shippers that managing these costs is a concern. In response to a survey Pitney Bowes recently... View More
There are many industry trends that have a direct impact on your cost and on your ability to conduct business. On the shipping cost front, we face fuel surcharges from every mode of transportation that... View More
Welcome to our new B2C Express publication. We at RB Publishing started nearly 20 years ago with a trade journal aimed at a shipping and mailing industry sorely in need of information. The book was called... View More
QUESTION: Can FedEx deny liability for a damaged guitar that I sold over eBay, when I purchased insurance for its sales value? FedExs ground for denial of liability is that I did not protect the guitar... View More
The National Motor Freight Traffic Association and National Classification Committee elected officers at their meetings held August 5-9, 2006 in Whistler, BC Canada. It was the first NMFTA/NCC meeting... View More
DYMO Corporation announced today it is partnering with the United States Federation of Small Businesses (USFSB) to introduce its members to DYMO Stamps, the new desktop postage solution from DYMO. The... View More
Effective January 1, 2007, Oversize charges for large packages shipped via UPS Ground services will be replaced with a simpler rate calculation based on dimensional weight.Dimensional weight rates are... View More
NTransit's Unlock service protocols provide auditing and expense management of parcel shipments, saving money for companies that use such national carriers as UPS, Federal Express and DHL. The acquisition... View More
A recent Fast Company article written by the chief sustainability officer of Blue Yonder, Saskia van Gendt, caught my attention. Van Gendt wrote that while free returns have become a “powerf
Everyone has heard the pitch: upload your invoices and carrier agreements into AI and let it tell you what you're owed. We wanted to test that claim. So we hired an independent AI engineerin
Many e-commerce brands face rising levels of dead stock — the merchandise deemed unsellable or unlikely to sell soon. As executives evaluate e-commerce dead stock reduction options, some initially a
The world’s largest parcel carriers are shrinking physical footprints while expanding algorithmic control. UPS now processes the majority of its volume through automated facilities, and maj
What does an optimal e-commerce network look like? Is it the network with the fewest facilities, the fastest delivery promise, or the lowest transportation cost? In practice, the answe
A freight damage claim often points attention toward the carrier, but the root cause can start much earlier. If pallet loads leave a facility with inconsistent containment, shifting and instab
BROOKFIELD, Wis. – ProShip, a leading and award-winning provider of multi-carrier shipping software, has announced the return of ProS Who Know, an annual virtual event focused on the trends
Facilities handling high-volume parcel sorting and cross-docking operations face unprecedented challenges as cargo theft networks grow more sophisticated and insider threats multiply. Identifying th
A recent Fast Company article written by the chief sustainability officer of Blue Yonder, Saskia van Gendt, caught my attention. Van Gendt wrote that while free returns have become a “powerf
Everyone has heard the pitch: upload your invoices and carrier agreements into AI and let it tell you what you're owed. We wanted to test that claim. So we hired an independent AI engineerin
Many e-commerce brands face rising levels of dead stock — the merchandise deemed unsellable or unlikely to sell soon. As executives evaluate e-commerce dead stock reduction options, some initially a
The world’s largest parcel carriers are shrinking physical footprints while expanding algorithmic control. UPS now processes the majority of its volume through automated facilities, and maj
What does an optimal e-commerce network look like? Is it the network with the fewest facilities, the fastest delivery promise, or the lowest transportation cost? In practice, the answe
A freight damage claim often points attention toward the carrier, but the root cause can start much earlier. If pallet loads leave a facility with inconsistent containment, shifting and instab
BROOKFIELD, Wis. – ProShip, a leading and award-winning provider of multi-carrier shipping software, has announced the return of ProS Who Know, an annual virtual event focused on the trends
Facilities handling high-volume parcel sorting and cross-docking operations face unprecedented challenges as cargo theft networks grow more sophisticated and insider threats multiply. Identifying th
