A Few Thoughts on Managing Customer Requirements in Shipping
Customer data are a concern not only in marketing but also in shipping. And companies should be no less vigilant in protecting and processing customer data in the shipping process.
Shipping
Get in charge of YOUR CHARGEBACKS
In a perfect world, merchandise deliveries would never arrive late, be mislabeled, or contain the wrong product or quantity. But ours is not a perfect
WERC Study: Higher Transportation Costs and Tighter Capacity Alter Distribution Operations
Shippers and carriers continue to experience the effects of rising transportation costs and constrained capacity that include changes in rates, service levels, and, in some cases, how they do business together, so says a study from the Warehousing Education and Research Council (WERC).
New Service for LCL Shipments from China
APL Logistics and Con-way Freight have launched OceanGuaranteedSM, a service providing less-than-container-load (LCL) shipments from China to the U.S.
Trimming Your Transportation Costs
Along with death and taxes, multichannel merchants can count on rising transportation costs. The chief culprit for increasing costs is fuel, which affects
Live from NCOF: Online Procurement Changing LTL
Transportation is no longer a commodity but a strategic decision thanks to online procurement, said Brad Gregory, director of sales and software alliances for SMC, a consultancy on less-than-truckload (LTL) shipping, during his Tuesday session,
Cost confusion
Logistics is hardly the stuff of controversy, but a session on logistics costs at this year’s meeting of the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals
Why don’t more people use manifesting systems?
Although manifesting systems are vital to achieving shipping efficiency, they are, in their state, by no means an ubiquitous presence in distribution
Manifest Destiny
There is an adage in business that your receptionist is your most important employee. After all, he is the most prominent personality of your company,
Out of the gate and into the mail
Mailers started 2005 on an optimistic note. Apparently they were confident that consumers hadn’t spent all their disposable income during the holiday