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... 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... View More

Members of the general public give little, if any, thought as to how it is that a parcel arrives on their doorstep or how they can go to a nearby store and purchase a product manufactured in a distant

Amazon wants to become the next major global 3PL, expanding beyond Fulfillment by Amazon.Amazon recently launched Amazon Supply Chain Services (ASCS), a new platform opening its freight, warehou... View More

For years, parcel auditing carried an implicit prerequisite: you had to be big enough to justify it. The conventional wisdom among smaller shippers went something like this �... View More

The debate on application programming interfaces (API) vs electronic data interchange (EDI) in logistics influences conversations as parcel carriers and supply chain technology providers expan... View More

For companies operating in US Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZs), the first several weeks after the Supreme Court’s striking down of the International Emergency Economi... View More

The small parcel market is not simply evolving; it is reorganizing around a different set of priorities. For decades, national carriers focused on maximizing volume, expanding networks, and ca... View More

The terms of sale used for transactions within the United States have wide spread recognition, however, these terms are not defined in a single source. “F.O.B. Origin” and “F.O.B. Destination”

Once defined by linear processes and disconnected systems, supply chains are becoming dynamic networks that respond in real-time to demand signals, labor constraints, and customer expectations... View More

France has become the latest country to enact a fee on low-value imports that takes effect before the European Union’s broader customs reform — a €3 duty across the bloc set to take... View More

The parcel industry is entering a new phase of AI adoption. What began as experimentation is now moving into day-to-day operations, with artificial intelligence playing an increasingly central... View More

Lost and damaged parcel shipments are often viewed as an unavoidable cost of high-volume shipping. For enterprise shippers, that mindset can become expensive. As parcel volumes increas... View More

Walk into a typical warehouse, DC, or fulfillment center on a busy day, and you’ll see the same pattern: supervisors expediting orders, reassigning people on the fly, hunting down inventory... View More

For a long time, managing small parcel shipping was fairly predictable. Two major players, annual rate increases, and familiar contracts created a sense of stability. But that era is over. Wit... View More

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... View More

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... View More

Parcel carrier contracts often fail to deliver expected results after go-live. This article explains why those gaps emerge, not from poor negotiation, but from how shipment behavior is modeled... View More

In August of 2025, the US parcel landscape changed in a way that seemed minor at first but ultimately had broad financial implications for shippers. Both UPS and FedEx announced a revised dime... View More

Lately, there’s been a lot that frustrates online shoppers, especially those waiting for parcels arriving from overseas. For example, this past peak season brought unprecedented challenges... View More