Ship Monk

JANUARY 20, 2023

Welcome back to the ultimate guide for enhancing your ecommerce knowledge! In PART 2 of our epic ecommerce terms guide and glossary, we’re here for you—the ecommerce merchants and entrepreneurial warriors of the world—to explain key terms relating to ecommerce, logistics, fulfillment, inventory, and more.

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Ship Monk

MARCH 14, 2023

If that’s you and you’re an ecommerce business owner, keep reading for eco-friendly packaging options your company could invest in this year to save money and help preserve the planet. Example: a bicycle is more eco-friendly than a sedan, but a sedan is more eco-friendly than a Hummer.

Material Savings 52

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Ship Monk

MARCH 14, 2023

If that’s you and you’re an ecommerce business owner, keep reading for eco-friendly packaging options your company could invest in this year to save money and help preserve the planet. Example: a bicycle is more eco-friendly than a sedan, but a sedan is more eco-friendly than a Hummer.

Material Savings 52

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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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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

According to the Council of Logistics Management, it is “the process of planning, implementing, and controlling the efficient, cost effective flow of raw materials, in-process inventory, finished goods and related information from the point of consumption to the point of origin for the purpose of recapturing value or proper disposal.

Reverse logistics 84

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Logistics Business Magazine

AUGUST 11, 2023

Even though many ecommerce merchants use data-backed buying personas, that provide insight into the purchasing decisions of their customers, many are only truly starting to get to grips with the next part associated with buying personas – and that is appreciating that consumers have delivery personas too.

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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. In other cases it’s in development as we build new systems and features so our clients have the most user-friendly, high-value platform at their disposal.

Supply Chain Planning Software 52

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Logistics Business Magazine

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Websites and ecommerce engines need to be fully functioning, able to accept orders and fulfil deliveries – and warehouses and fulfilment centres need to be ready to meet customers’ delivery needs fast. They’d have to first print the labels, then change them and then dispose of the liners.

Efficiency 56

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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%. Cost of processing the return: This includes labor and warehouse space used to inspect, re-bag, and retag merchandise, or to recycle, liquidate, or dispose of it.

Procurement Solutions 93

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Logistics Business Magazine

JANUARY 3, 2023

Ecommerce and the drive to mobile have helped global printer leader Bixolon to some great year-on-year turnover numbers, says Frédéric d’Orsay, Channel Sales Director Europe. Ecommerce also requires labelling innovation, whether via compliance regulation or in the increasing drive to differentiate via individual customer personalisation.

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Ship Monk

JUNE 15, 2022

Understanding both layers of the logistics process can help eCommerce business owners optimize their supply chain, manage customer expectations, and make better decisions about ordering, budgeting, and shipping options. A few include: return to stock, donate, dispose, rework (ex. Inbound Logistics. Outbound Logistics.

Outbound 52

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Ship Monk

MAY 12, 2023

To say that ecommerce shipping costs have skyrocketed over the past few years would be an understatement. Among the tools at their disposal are carrier surcharges, those seemingly random extra charges that add to your total shipping cost per package. What are these surcharges, and what can your ecommerce business do about them?

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Ship Monk

OCTOBER 13, 2021

For example, let’s say you’re an apparel store with a diverse catalog. Let’s go back to the apparel store example. With more resources at your disposal, the sky’s the limit when it comes to exciting product launches and bold marketing campaigns. #4. Say you’re thinking of launching a new line of sun protective clothing.

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EazyStock

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Green supply chain management practices can be included in every link of the supply chain from material sourcing and selection, product design, manufacturing processes, product delivery, and even product disposal after the product’s useful life. This is an obvious place for AI and machine learning on the eCommerce B2C end of the supply chain.

Supply Chain Software 81

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Logistics Business Magazine

AUGUST 11, 2022

This offers businesses in food and beverage, pharmaceuticals, e-commerce and logistics, that typically rely on filmic (for example, polyvinyl chloride – PVC) packaging tapes, a more sustainable alternative. The tape supports the circular economy and can be disposed of in standard paper recycling bins and recycling processes.

Packaging 60

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Logistics Business Magazine

MARCH 18, 2022

tonnes away from general waste disposal. On completion of the roll-out across all DPD sites, over 500 tonnes of waste every year will be diverted to the circular economy rather than going to general waste disposal. This has been a great example of partnership working, with Elissa at Lyreco leading the charge to make a real difference.

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Bringg

APRIL 18, 2021

According to an IBM Research Insights report, 57% of consumers are willing to change their eCommerce purchasing habits to help reduce their environmental impact. This definition includes the carbon footprint of the supply chain, dealing with waste disposal, packaging, recycling, reducing energy consumption, etc. You’ve saved.5

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Logistics Business Magazine

MAY 20, 2018

Leading UK packaging supplier Southgate is offering what it calls a genuinely eco-friendly alternative to the ecommerce and distribution sectors. As a large percentage of ecommerce goes to households, that’s a good thing. The films meet the requirements of EN 13432.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MAY 5, 2022

They also have to carry a descriptive name, for example, cheese and pickle sandwich, while all label and ingredient information should be clearly legible, using regulation font size. For example, if a supplier adds spices for a ready meal, labels will need checking and amending accordingly, to remove risk.

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Stord

JANUARY 11, 2022

From there, there are more silos focused on how the product is sold and delivered, such as "B2B retail distribution teams," "ecommerce fulfillment teams," "reverse logistics teams" and so on. For example, the price of 42# linerboard has gone up 35% in the last 12 months, over the course of 4-5 price increases.

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 18, 2018

Looking to real-life examples for inspiration, we can ask, ‘Who does reverse logistics well?’ For regulators and the public, reverse logistics may be judged by how safe and how green the process is, for example, recycling products instead of throwing them into a landfill. Persuade the customer otherwise.

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Kanban Logistics

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

It’s home base for sophisticated eCommerce operations, high-velocity retail distribution, vendor managed inventory, and a variety of other services. eCommerce pick and pack : The WMS can design the most effective picking pattern so that associates reduce walking distance and overlap, and therefore minimize labor costs.

Warehousing 52

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ShipLilly

JULY 15, 2021

India is an example of a country that has a short waiting period of a month before cargo is classified as being abandoned. Over time, costs keep rising including final disposal charges if that is the case. Other cases arise because it is difficult to identify who or what the cargo is intended for in terms of delivery.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 7, 2020

Walmart may be the most famous example of a company that has succeeded primarily because of a well-developed and aligned supply chain strategy. For example, supplier performance issues can cause problems with inventory, order fill, on-time delivery performance, and customer-order lead times. . Mini Case Study: Walmart.

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247 Customs Broker

MARCH 5, 2018

Trust and brand equity result in high margins for these companies and that often goes overlooked when you compare to some of the more visible examples of brands around,” Haigh notes. But most of the attention in the rankings fell to UPS and FedEx, major beneficiaries of the ecommerce boom and major innovators in their fields.

Procurement Analytics 28

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 10, 2014

We built one of the first Mobile TMS apps , have the only end-to-end LTL eCommerce Freight shipping applications for B2B shopping carts, continue to innovate on internal systems, and have won several accolades for our digital marketing efforts. You can say technology is in our DNA.

Manufacturing Procurement 112

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