For years, delivery expectations have hung on broad carrier windows: two to five days, three to seven days, etc. While these still exist, modern shopping carts and time-conscious consumers demand fine
Earlier this year, the second phase of a European Union (EU) customs program called the Import Control System 2 (ICS2) Release 2 was implemented. As of March 2023, all economic operations, whi... View More
A major change to shipping and customs clearance into the European Union (EU) occurred earlier this year, but it has, to a large extent, been obscured by COVID-19 challenges in the supply chai... View More
In October of 2018, the United States announced an intention to pull out from the Universal Postal Union (UPU) within one year. As a founding member of this 145-year old international organiza... View More
Several new international regulation changes have flown under the radar this summer. These changes could potentially have a profound effect on US export shippers and importers, especially as the... View More
There comes a point in nearly every growing e-commerce merchant’s journey when the topic of scalability must be explored. Scalability might take many forms for this growing business, but managing... View More
The process of finding a cross-border provider has been discussed previously and is an important consideration for B2B and B2C shippers in the US and globally. New considerations, however, have come u
The UPS announcements on Saturday service, set to go into effect this month, represents a seismic shift in the carriers' perception of service delivery times and days of operations. Weekend... View More
The concept of international shipping — and cross-border trade in both business-to-consumer and business-to-business environments — has been a vexing issue for merchants and shippers in gene
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
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 �
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
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
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 �
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
