Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 25, 2024

Some try delving into deep learning or a crash course in generative AI (GenAI), but I don’t recommend starting there. Workers from picking and packing to planning and procurement are in short supply, stimulating interest in increasing productivity of the existing workforce. Because it doesn’t understand, we need humans at the helm.

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Ship Monk

MARCH 12, 2024

By having items pre-bundled online, picking and packing times go down because items slotted in your fulfillment center space may already be categorized in groupings. An example of this could be ordering a custom car. How Do Kitting Services Work within a Fulfillment Center?

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Ship Monk

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

This, of course, means that streamlining those warehousing and fulfillment operations can drive profitability. Warehouse workers and advanced robots work side by side as orders are prioritized, picked, packed, and loaded onto trucks. Inventory moves in and out of warehouses, on and off shelves.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Increasing Container Utilisation: How to Do It. Once aware of the potential cost savings to be had from utilising shipping-container space more effectively, the obvious question that follows is, “how do we do it?” For example, you can look at: 1) Your products and the way you package them for shipping.

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Ship Monk

MAY 5, 2022

There are a lot of moving parts in a transition of this magnitude, but we find that our clients’ biggest concerns are about the actual, physical move—how to get their inventory out of its current (and potentially hostile) warehouse and set up in a new facility with the least amount of disruption to their business. Taking the Plunge.

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Ship Monk

JANUARY 11, 2024

Of course, the opposite is also true — when handled poorly, returns can hurt your brand. How to Prevent Damage to Your Brand The first and best way to keep returns from damaging your brand is to prevent as many as you can. Let’s take apparel, for example. As you can see, there are pretty significant costs to mishandling returns.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MAY 27, 2021

Jörg Spiekermann, sales manager for palletising and packaging systems in the Consumer Goods area of Beumer Group , knows how to solve individual tasks with standard components. Spiekermann remembers a customer who had to stack filled jam jars directly from production on pallets and pack them securely. Therefore they have to be packed.

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Trinity Logistics

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Examples of common accessorials include: Inside pickup or delivery Lift gate service Residential delivery Detention storage Base Rates Each LTL carrier sets its own base rate, often quoted per 100 lbs., Increasing density starts with how you pack your LTL freight. Of course, it depends on where your shipments are delivering.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Of course, there is no quick and easy way to curb increases in the cost of energy and labour, but now is an excellent time to start thinking about practical ways to reduce energy usage and increase labour productivity and efficiency. Does your company use incandescent, halogen, or HID lighting in its warehouses?

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Ship Monk

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Accurate data forecasting requires accurate data, robust data analysis tools, and people who understand how to use them. Of course, the more data you need and the more sophisticated your methods are, the more expensive demand forecasting becomes. The amount of data available usually depends on the maturity of the product.

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Logistics Bureau

MAY 31, 2021

The tips in this article will help you know how to identify the customers, products, and processes that might be inflating your cost to serve (CTS) unnecessarily. Naturally, overall cost-to-serve will be higher for online than in-store sales due to the added expense involved in picking, packing, and delivering customers’ purchases.

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GoShip Blog

MAY 25, 2021

While many business owners are aware of the negative effects of damaged goods and packages, many still struggle to understand what freight damage is, how it occurs, and how to mitigate risks. The course of action you need to take will ultimately depend on the type of damage that affects your shipments. Packing slip.

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Ship Monk

AUGUST 3, 2022

Not all of those examples are exactly illustrious, but they do (for the most part) prove that two heads really are better than one. You can technically go all the way up to a 5PL —it’s all a matter of what services you’re looking for and how comprehensive you want your outsourcing solution to be. . Sounds like a dream come true, right?

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3PL Links

JANUARY 31, 2023

Read also: How to Manage a Warehouse: The 10-Step Guide to Logistics Management What is Inventory Management? Track stock Of course, the first thing to consider is whether or not the stock is being monitored. Get started with obsolete inventory Of course, some things sell more slowly than others.

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Forto

JUNE 23, 2020

Learn how to register with Amazon FBA step by step in this guide. You do not have to worry about picking and packing the ordered items from your warehouse. There is one catch with Amazon FBA, of course: the service costs money. For example, for the screening of possible new goods that expand your product range.

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Ship Monk

MARCH 14, 2023

Example: a bicycle is more eco-friendly than a sedan, but a sedan is more eco-friendly than a Hummer. Eco-Friendly Packaging and Shipping Materials Packaging and shipping materials are a vital part of every ecommerce order, especially considering how many packages need to travel great distances. have all banned its use.

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Ship Monk

MARCH 14, 2023

Example: a bicycle is more eco-friendly than a sedan, but a sedan is more eco-friendly than a Hummer. Eco-Friendly Packaging and Shipping Materials Packaging and shipping materials are a vital part of every ecommerce order, especially considering how many packages need to travel great distances. have all banned its use.

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Logistics Business Magazine

DECEMBER 18, 2019

He explains what he means in the following example. These aim to find out how the percentage of recyclate in film – as stipulated by the new German Packaging Law, for example – can be increased. Providing that there’s a standard of quality which is accepted by the big bottlers’ marketing departments, of course.

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Logistics Bureau

AUGUST 7, 2023

Standardise and Digitise The key to managing complexity, of course, is to be organised. 2) A need for variants of products that are more suitable for online ordering and shipping than those suited for in-store sales (leak-proof packaging, for example). Try to establish consistency in the identification of your company’s products.

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Trans Global Auto Logistics

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

However, before you start buying vintage cars , it’s critical that you understand how to go about investing in classic cars correctly. Of course, even if you end up not making a major profit on the sale of a classic car, you can still enjoy the thrill of owning your own timeless old-school beauty. Demand for Investing in Classic Cars.

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Forto

JULY 25, 2018

Before we go into details on how to ship hazardous materials, one needs to understand that different types of cargo require different measures for transportation. For shipping paint, for example, hazardous transport regulations are applicable. Make sure the packaging is suitable for the dangerous goods you are packing.

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Ship Monk

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

And how in the world did that ecommerce company manage to ship it to me for nothing? Today, we’re going to discuss how package weight affects ecommerce shipping rates. How to Calculate DIM Weight 1. Of course, if your product, sans packaging, is already above the weight limit there’s not much you can do to make it lighter.

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Conger

MAY 11, 2022

How to decide which one is best for your operation. How to Choose Between an AGV and AMR. AGVs are automated material handling equipment that follows predefined paths with limited ability to make real-time corrections to its course. But, they cannot make real-time corrections to their course. The average cost of each.

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Ship Monk

JULY 27, 2022

For an eCommerce business owner, the answer is obvious: How the heck do I get a handle on my inventory management ?! We’re talking, of course, about demand forecasting, or the process of predicting customer demand for a product or service. The COVID-19 pandemic was a prominent example. #5 What is Demand Forecasting?

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Ship Monk

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The order is then picked, packed, and sent out for delivery through a shipping carrier. . For example, say an ecommerce merchant has a 2-Day delivery policy for orders received before 3PM. Yes, site design, advertising, branding, and, of course, product design have an impact on customer acquisition.

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Logistics Bureau

MARCH 3, 2019

Of course, it would be possible to write an entire book on this particular subject, so for the sake of keeping this article relatively brief, I’ll stick to a short explanation of crucial factors to consider when planning a warehouse network (even if it is a network of one). It can go further than this, of course.

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EazyStock

MARCH 11, 2019

Almost all fulfillment centers want to improve pick and pack efficiency. Many warehouses, however, don’t know how to make proactive changes in their process. Receiving is a great example of the principle that making the beginning of a process as efficient as possible often has positive downstream effects. Know what’s coming.

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 10, 2023

The Challenge: How to do Logistics When it’s a Distraction For many startups, logistics is absent from, or lying very low on, the initial list of priorities for investment due to the focus on developing a functional business and attracting customers. A 3PL partner can help you to remedy process fragmentation and its associated weaknesses.

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Ship Monk

AUGUST 8, 2023

How are you going to handle a wrong address, or a lost package? What if your fulfillment center picks and packs the wrong item? Ever spent waaay too much time trying to find an answer to a product question or figure out how to return something? Test different packing materials or switch shipping carriers.

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WorkWave

JANUARY 16, 2022

Of course, this will vary depending on individual needs. These should be people that you trust and have a good understanding of how to help you. For example, your passwords, keys, or schedule may have changed. Pack your evacuation items in “go bags” — backpacks or other bags that are conducive to carrying.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Picking and packing. Thus, if you find out that an expensive transport solution (courier for example) is routinely being used to deliver a low margin product to a customer, you’ll understand that much better if the end result for you turns out to be a loss. So How Do You Calculate CTS in the Real World? Marketing costs.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 9, 2019

Of course, along with that comes a lot of products that need delivering. ” They’d deploy their Black Belts, Lean Masters, and AI algorithms to see how to reduce it. From there it creates a route that packs as many deliveries and pickups into the smallest possible area. None of this is new news, of course.

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Conger

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

How to use a pallet jack. How to Use a Pallet Jack. For example, manual pallet jack sizes can be 36 or 42 inches. For example, electric pallet jacks, specifically ride-on models, are a better option for this. For example, moving pallets from a loading dock to pallet racks for storage and vice-versa. And much more!

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Ship Monk

APRIL 26, 2023

The order is then picked, packed, and sent out for delivery through a shipping carrier. For example, say an ecommerce merchant has a 2-Day delivery policy for orders received before 3PM. Yes, site design, advertising, branding, and, of course, product design have an impact on customer acquisition.

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Dedola Global Logistics

MARCH 7, 2018

Here are some tips to give you guidance on how to effectively communicate with your supplier. Try using lists to explain your ideas rather than packing information into a paragraph that can make it difficult for your supplier to decipher. For example, there is a 16-hour difference between Shanghai and Los Angeles.

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Ship Monk

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Fulfillment Automation at its Finest ShipMonk provides competitive fulfillment solutions to ecommerce businesses of all sizes by continuously investing in next-level technology that allows us to pick, sort, pack, and send out goods at lightning speed while retaining accuracy. Cobots are different in that way.

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Airfreight Logistics

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

It’s an inexpensive service and is great for traders and packing houses that may not have their own cooling facilities and rely on inbound cool trucks to chill the product, which isn’t it’s intended function. What we offer instead is a simple service of receiving, cooling, storage and loading all under controlled conditions.

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