Tips for Improving Shipping Performance
With rising fuel prices, carrier capacity problems, and pressure from customers for on-time deliveries, shippers have been feeling the squeeze. To make matters worse, when they didn
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Tales from the Front
Hardly Amazonian service A friend of a Multichannel Merchant staffer placed an order with bookselling behemoth Amazon.com in December. The books she ordered
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.
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