How serious are you about the job you do today? How do you measure your success? What are your priorities when it comes to addressing? What is the magic number to be successful when shipping your information... View More
Today�s distributors are faced with supplying an evolving marketplace that consists of smarter and more demanding customers. They are continuously presented with new challenges and frequently asked to... View More
Pallet rack is not generally regarded as very glamorous or exciting; however, if your operation is facing a minor crisis in storage capacity or if you have some rack that has had a structural failure,... View More
Do you put extra stamps on your envelopes with the hope they�ll arrive faster? Would you knowingly spend $25 to send a package that would have arrived a day earlier for only $5? Sometimes, you do get what... View More
The word �outsourcing� surely rings many bells. With the beginning of the deregulation era in transportation in 1996, companies underscored their efforts to streamline operations and focus on what they... View More
Software selection and implementation services have become big business for consulting firms as well as the software vendors themselves. Even with outside assistance, selecting the right software for your... View More
Radio frequency identification (RID) is one of the most promising and anticipated technologies in recent years. Magazine articles, television shows, analyst papers and the like are frequently trumpeting... View More
The great majority of problems that occur in the distribution cycle are directly related to human error, negligent omissions or just plain lack of knowledge and training. Mistakes and accidents in the... View More
Have you had inquiries about shipping your products internationally? Perhaps you have been thinking, �Now that we have a Web site, we are getting more international calls. I have a good shipping manager.... View More
Customer product returns are becoming more frustrating to both businesses and consumers. Last year�s total number of returned items was 100 million. Forrester Research expects that number to skyrocket... View More
No topic has generated more comments from parcel industry enthusiasts this past year than the ongoing tactics used by carriers to avoid paying out guarantee refunds. And shippers are getting madder by... View More
Congratulations! You�ve just landed your first big customer! No more selling to just the �mom-and-pop� stores � this is really going to give your product national exposure and take you to the big time.... View More
Today�s world of electronics shipping is far different from decades past. Order and delivery cycles have been reduced to days, not weeks or months. A typical manufacturing scenario goes like this: A factory... View More
Although using overseas vendors and manufacturing plants has its drawbacks � more languages, distance and complexity, just to name a few � the savings and advantages that can be attained from doing so... View More
Ergonomics is the practice of ensuring that the workplace properly accommodates the physical needs of the employees assigned to perform their job tasks safely at their assigned workstations. A program... View More
Outsourcing has been around a long time. Practices in Europe and Japan seemed to have started the outsourcing interest. These examples reflect historical impacts of regulation and tradition. Europeans... View More
Regardless of the industry, competition on the Internet can be fierce. To keep ahead of the competition, many successful companies are finding they need to reinvent themselves, widening the scope of their... View More
Traditionally, there have been a series of difficult issues associated with having contracts online. Last year, the U.S. Congress passed a new law known as the �E-SIG� law, which endorses online contracts,... View More
Financial transactions can now be conducted in the blink of an eye. But the technology that has made us so efficient is also raising serious privacy concerns. The media is flooded with stories of businesses... View More
Dairyland Power is a wholesale power supply cooperative headquartered in La Crosse, Wisconsin. The Publication Services department originally provided support to internal and wholesale power customers... 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
