Ship Monk

JANUARY 27, 2021

Although it might be easy to pin these closures solely on the eCommerce piñata, there are other factors that contribute to a store’s decision to shut down, namely: Events outside of our control , such as the economic effects of a global pandemic The shift from a service to an experience-based economy A shrinking middle class Poor management.

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Ship Monk

OCTOBER 17, 2022

3PL —a simple abbreviation for one of the most complex, integrated, helpful entities operating in the eCommerce landscape. 3PL stands for third-party logistics, and at a glance a 3PL partner provides eCommerce brands with solutions to their fulfillment needs. 3PL vs. 1PL, 2PL, 4PL, and 5PL. Don’t worry; you can change later on.

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Ship Monk

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

In the world of ecommerce fulfillment there are only so many things you can control. There’s more to ecommerce order tracking than assigning a tracking number and crossing your fingers. Ecommerce order tracking starts the moment the order is placed and ends in successful delivery. Offer ecommerce order tracking.

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Ship Monk

AUGUST 30, 2023

would put you in the middle 60% of ecommerce stores according to this benchmark. Today we’re going to look at how to calculate ecommerce conversion rates, identify some things that may be turning customers away, and what you can do to improve conversion rates. What is an Ecommerce Conversion Rate? Anywhere between 0.2%

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Ship Monk

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Supply chains are becoming more intricate, ecommerce orders are on the rise, and speedy shipping has never been more important. If you’ve been wanting to learn more about how automation positively impacts 3PLs, and the ecommerce businesses they’re committed to, this is the blog for you. But what kind of automation ?

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Ship Monk

APRIL 19, 2024

In a recent blog post, we discussed the environmental cost of ecommerce and ways to offset it. So, for ecommerce owners who want to reduce their impact on the environment, eco-friendly packaging is a great place to start. Apparel, for example, doesn’t need cushioning but does need protection against rain or snow.

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Ship Monk

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

Learn All about Ecommerce Logistics and Fulfillment Of all the many things you do as an ecommerce brand owner, logistics and fulfillment are often afterthoughts — as in, let’s worry about that after the orders start coming in. Let’s take ShipMonk, for example, one of the fastest-growing 3PL fulfillment providers in the US.

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Ship Monk

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Most ecommerce business owners have a few key performance indicators (KPIs) that they track daily, if not hourly. Metrics like conversion rates and average order value can keep you up at night when you’re not meeting revenue goals. It tells you at a glance how you’re doing at meeting that goal.

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Ship Monk

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Running an eCommerce brand can be all kinds of stressful. Of course it would, and that’s why ShipMonk exists. One of the most impactful ways we help eCommerce businesses thrive is by taking the stress out of working with shipping carriers. Take COVID for example. View Shipping Methods Overview.

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Ship Monk

JULY 25, 2023

ShipMonk offers all that and more, and we welcome people from all walks of life to apply to become a part of our ecommerce fulfillment family. And, of course, there’s the invaluable members in operations who make our clients’ visions achievable in our state-of-the-art facilities, ensuring every ecommerce story we tell is a successful one.

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Ship Monk

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

You’ve done the hard work of building your startup into a successful ecommerce business. The good news is that there’s an easy formula ecommerce businesses can use to calculate the optimum reorder point for each SKU in your product line. The last thing you want is to run out of your bestsellers, but how do you know when to order more?

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Don’t ignore the ecommerce factor. Only if a number of locations all meet the needs of proximity to customers will the comparative cost of land and buildings become important. So I will use Sydney as an example. Tip #4—Don’t Ignore the Ecommerce Factor. Weigh up the cost of transport. Tip #3—Weigh up Transport Costs.

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Ship Monk

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

In the ecommerce industry it’s a feeding frenzy out there—DTC and B2B retailers doing everything they can to get shoppers’ attention. Colossal companies like Amazon created this “new normal” in the ecommerce industry, and all merchants have been forced to follow or get left out in the cold. That’s a problem for ecommerce brands.

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Ship Monk

JANUARY 11, 2024

‘Tis the season for processing ecommerce returns. Depending on which article you’re reading, ecommerce brands should be prepared for return rates of anywhere from 16% to 30%. Of course, the opposite is also true — when handled poorly, returns can hurt your brand. Let’s take apparel, for example. It makes perfect sense.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 30, 2023

But, of course, with so many cases in such a vastly populated nation, the risk of a new variant emerging to start the whole cycle over again cannot be underestimated. During the zero-COVID years, it only needed one or two cases to shut down an entire plant, leaving customers altogether in the lurch. That will no longer be an issue.

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Logistics Bureau

MAY 3, 2021

Few retailers can hope to grow, or even survive today, without the ability to sell through ecommerce channels. In an article about online retail that I published at the end of 2019, I highlighted Target’s click-and-mortar retail model, which, even then, was positioning the company as an ecommerce trend-setter. The Dark Store Trend.

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Ship Monk

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

2020 was a monumental year for eCommerce, but not in the way any of us expected. eCommerce merchants and customers alike were faced with some pretty, dare we say, unprecedented challenges that, among other things, forced major changes in both the foundation of online retail and our perceptions of it. Empathize with Your Customer.

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Logistics Business Magazine

AUGUST 8, 2022

Attended by some 150 visitors, the three open days gave guests the opportunity to see some of the recent additions to the Flexi Truck range of articulated warehouse trucks and hear how the latest generation of Flexi Truck models are helping today’s logistics operations meet their sustainability goals.

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 4, 2021

This is 27% above the Q1-Q3 2020 total and puts the UK industrial & logistics sector on course for a record year, as the unprecedented levels of occupier demand looks set to ensure that the industry will beat the 51.6m Food manufacturing and indoor farming are examples of other occupiers taking space recently.

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Ship Monk

JANUARY 20, 2021

Is your eCommerce store ready to spread its wings? For example, if you have a subscription box company , working with a fulfilment partner that has ample experience with subscription boxes is a given. Of course, you may also come to find that, despite all of your due diligence, they are simply not the one for you! Smart move!

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

In the course of updating our annual research on the supply chain planning market , I talked to executives across the industry. Lead times, for example, are a critical form of master data for planning purposes. The processing units in an oil refinery, for example, operate at high temperature and high pressure.

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Logistics Bureau

MAY 31, 2021

Ecommerce competition was already fierce before the pandemic curbed consumer enthusiasm for in-store shopping, and now, it is even more so. For example: Compared to selling a product in-store, the cost to deliver that same item as a small parcel can be several times higher. For a large parcel, that difference can double.

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Ship Monk

MAY 5, 2022

We know that’s not an easy decision for any eCommerce business to make. Today, we’re going where the rubber meets the road: the actual migration. The length of downtime will be determined by SKU count, complexities such as labeling and packing to meet your new 3PL’s guidelines, and the speed of their receiving process.

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Logistics Business Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

The processes are analogous to, but with significant differences from, consumer eCommerce. Direct-to-Patient promises to be more convenient, to reduce waste, to encourage better course adherence by patients, as well as helping to control the problem of parallel imports.

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Blue Grace Logistics

JULY 20, 2022

The rise in eCommerce and bottlenecks in the global supply chain are driving the need to solve these challenges. These might include mass email, daily meetings to be in contact, and shared documents across the team. For example, you may think you need five people, but find out that you need ten.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 10, 2023

For example, pickleball has been the fastest growing sport in America for 3 years. Without an efficient supply chain, a company can’t meet the demand that exists, and competitors swoop in and grab market share. An example of a branding concept involves the work the company did with Kerri Lee Walsh Jennings.

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ShipLilly

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

When the pandemic led to social distancing and lockdowns, the age of eCommerce received a great boost. Of course, this is only possible with goods with a long expiry date. For example, some businesses could position themselves as the source for hard-to-find items that have not been recently stocked by most rivals.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 6, 2021

For example, many supply chain resiliency plans may have considered a health crisis in which organizations and key partners face lower-than-normal staffing levels. For example, hand sanitizer sales spiked 313% during one week in February 2020, according to reports from Nielsen. Embracing technology is part of that solution.

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247 Customs Broker

MARCH 6, 2018

As forecast, the Post – eCommerce – Parcel (PeP) division contributed EUR 1.5 The DHL Express division and the German and international Parcel and eCommerce businesses continued to see particularly dynamic growth. per share at the Annual General Meeting on April 24, 2018. billion in the 2017 financial year.

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EazyStock

DECEMBER 17, 2019

One notable example is Amazon, who uses AI to track customers’ purchasing habits and to use that information to make recommendations for other products. This is an obvious place for AI and machine learning on the eCommerce B2C end of the supply chain. For example, governments are opening access to export tools and guidance.

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Logistics Bureau

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

The key difference between the two can perhaps be explained in the following example: A 3PL provider working with a paint manufacturer may package and store products as well as transport them to retailers and/or customers. 3) Ecommerce and Multi-Channel Retail. The best example of a 4PL model is Amazon.com. Healthcare Logistics.

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Logistics Business Magazine

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

For example, Ireland’s leading furniture importer and wholesaler reduced complexity and increased its stock volumes in 40% less overall space by investing in a new facility and implementing a state-of-the art WMS. At the time the operation required space for 2,500 pallets of various heights to meet customer needs, perhaps 1,000 at 1.6m

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Constantly developing logistics and supply chain techniques have generated a diverse array of intralogistics solutions tailored to meet the precise needs of individual operations. Even newer warehouses can come with obstructions – a cold store, for example, may have fans at the top of a wall where the company may want to put racking.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MARCH 30, 2022

For example, it developed packaging systems that can use paper instead of plastic, as well as solutions that can create packaging tailored to the contents to minimise waste. It also discussed the stages before and after packaging, for example by examining the end-of-life stage for packaging and products.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JULY 8, 2022

In particular, the space constraints generated by the need to hold more SKUs and the shorter pick times and quicker throughput rates needed to meet the delivery expectations of internet shoppers meant that storage solutions had to be rethought to make the most of the people and (in the majority of cases) limited space available.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The answer depends, of course, on your company’s objectives and, particularly, on your customer service promises. It’s a random approach in which, for example, a consignment of electric blenders might find a home in a storage location between bottles of shampoo on one side, and dog collars on the other.

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Logistics Bureau

MARCH 3, 2019

In this post, I’d like to talk about the key factors that will impact on the optimum facility network and design required to meet your warehousing or storage requirements. For example, we need to know if we can get to the required level of packaging unit. Planning a Warehouse Network and Design: Key Factors to Consider.

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