Ship Monk

JUNE 22, 2023

If you’re an ecommerce business owner, you’ve already spent a great deal of time and effort developing your products. Today we’re going to look at packaging options for ecommerce brands that not only protect your products, but also help communicate your brand’s values and personality.

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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

JANUARY 27, 2023

While “going with it” is an acceptable strategy for some areas of the holidays; it’s not a strong plan for ecommerce brands during peak season. Get Faster Shipping Options Peak season is when ecommerce brands of all sizes across all verticals feel the most pressure to deliver on the delivery front. Reduce Cart Abandonment 2.)

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The Logistics of Logistics

JULY 21, 2023

Gabe and his team focus on working with ecommerce brands to help them scale their businesses without the need to hire additional customer service or logistics employees. He is also a co-founder of Rustic.com (ecommerce) and has experience as an independent sales contractor at DLS Worldwide.

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Ship Monk

JULY 19, 2022

Running an eCommerce business forces you to become an expert at a lot of things, but estimating shipping costs isn’t the best way to spend your time. It was adapted by carriers to charge customers for the valuable space their packages fill on airplanes, trucks and shipping containers. Value of Contents. Carrier Rates and Calculators.

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The Logistics of Logistics

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Chuck is the CEO and Co-founder of High Definition Vehicle Insurance (HDVI) , where he leads an experienced team of insurance, technology, and trucking industry experts who deeply understand the challenges of today’s fleets. HDVI delivers modern insurance driven by safety, service and savings to small and mid-size trucking fleet operators.

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Ship Monk

JANUARY 5, 2024

The holiday season is never short on smiles, especially if you’re an ecommerce business that delivers on all fronts. Thankfully, there are ways ecommerce businesses can see where their orders are. With these constant scans, your ecommerce business has a way to track orders at every stage of their journey.

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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. Once shipped, the ecommerce client is notified of any shipping delays or issues that need their attention.

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Ship Monk

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

When you think about eCommerce order fulfillment , from checkout to delivery, there are about a million things that have to happen perfectly to ensure an order is fulfilled accurately and received on time. Millions of orders are delivered every day, seamlessly meeting customer expectations. How eCommerce Order Tracking Works.

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Ship Monk

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Unfortunately, logistics can’t be avoided if you’re an ecommerce brand owner. If you frequent our blog, you know that we often wax poetic about ecommerce order fulfillment and shipping, but today we’re going to talk about freight and freight shipping. Shipping is complicated. That’s why they call it logistics. What’s the difference?

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Ship Monk

JULY 14, 2023

In the case of shipping for an ecommerce brand, in addition to harnessing ShipMonk’s Virtual Carrier Network , we recommend using a variety of shipping carriers vs. relying on one provider. 3PLs like ShipMonk that ship innumerable products for thousands of ecommerce clients). Out the gate there are a few things to keep in mind.

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Ship Monk

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

There are many noteworthy zones—the Danger Zone , the Twilight Zone —but you didn’t come to a 3PL blog to talk Kenny Loggins or Rod Serling; you’re here for impactful topics related to ecommerce. So buckle up for the rest of this blog; we’re revvin’ up our ecommerce engines to help you save money and time!

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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. On the M4, trucks can very easily drive straight into Sydney for deliveries. Tip #4—Don’t Ignore the Ecommerce Factor. Why is that?

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Ship Monk

DECEMBER 22, 2022

When you’re first starting an ecommerce business, packing and shipping your products is the easy part, after you’ve done all the hard work of developing, producing and marketing a product. Many ecommerce business owners start with direct fulfillment thinking that it’s something they can easily manage on their own.

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Logistics Business Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2022

In recent years, Furniturebox has seen a rise in ecommerce, indirect sales, and 3PL opportunities, resulting in the need to expand into its new warehouse. This has already been a life-changing year for the company, as the founders made the Forbes “30 Under 30 2022” list for retail and ecommerce entrepreneurs in Europe.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 29, 2021

Distribution is no longer a backwater of the economy, due in large part to the upheavals brought on by ecommerce. Amazon and other ecommerce innovators have been the leading agents of disruption. For existing DCs, ecommerce has also added complexity to their operations. But change today is the norm. Automated workload balancing.

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Ship Monk

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

For some ecommerce business owners, sending their customers’ orders out the door feels a little like watching your 16-year-old drive off in the family car. But when it comes to ecommerce delivery, that’s not entirely true. Here’s an overview of the ecommerce order fulfillment process and ways to improve each step.

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Ship Monk

APRIL 23, 2024

Trouble is, managing an ecommerce brand involves certain unavoidable carbon-causing activities like packaging, shipping and returns. The UN World Commission on Environment and Development defines sustainability as “development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.”

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Blue Grace Logistics

AUGUST 18, 2022

In an effort to shorten shipment delays, some retailers are shifting their cargo to trucks instead of trains. This is aggravated by vessel arrival delays, slower container processing, and trucking issues. eCommerce Activity During the Holiday Shipping Season. Rail congestion also continues to be a challenge with backups at hubs.

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Freight Center

JANUARY 28, 2020

We’re here to help clear up any confusion around some of the most confusing but common trucking terms: deadhead, backhaul, and headhaul. Deadhead refers to when a truck driver is returning with an empty trailer. Drivers are still paid in the event of deadhead but not as much as having a full truck of cargo. The Deadhead Dilemma.

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Logistics Business Magazine

AUGUST 8, 2022

Narrow Aisle Ltd – the VNA materials handling solutions specialist – recently hosted a series of distributor open days at its UK Flexi Truck manufacturing plant in Great Bridge, West Midlands. The robots and pickers work alongside Flexi Trucks safely in VNA aisles assembling customer orders.

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Ship Monk

JUNE 14, 2023

There are a lot of moving parts to managing an ecommerce supply chain. An ecommerce store owner is expected to master everything from sourcing materials to manufacturing and procurement, to fulfillment and shipping orders to customers. Today we’re going to take a look at a typical ecommerce supply chain from beginning to end.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MARCH 4, 2024

Ancra Systems is a leading specialist automatic truck, trailer, and container loading and unloading solutions (ATLS) provider, with over 35 years of experience supporting a comprehensive package of standard and bespoke solutions. Truck loading conveyors and other automated solutions allow increased efficiency.

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Morai Logistics

MARCH 15, 2018

Omni-channel strategies prove to be an effective method for meeting on-demand delivery for consumers and providing efficient solutions for shippers. On February 22nd, 2018, Morai discussed the exponential growth of the Canadian ecommerce market. Reports show that 54% of Canadian shoppers participate in ‘cross-border ecommerce’.

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247 Customs Broker

MARCH 7, 2018

The rapid growth of ecommerce is driving deep changes in logistics, from tightening up trucking capacity to elevating the importance of final-mile delivery processes. Combating Trucking Constraints. With ecommerce booming and a strong economy, trucking capacity is tight and expected to stay tight.

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GoShip Blog

JANUARY 11, 2023

As an ecommerce business owner, there’s not much you can do to mitigate these issues. Truck Driver Shortages . Truck Driver Shortages . The American Trucking Association (ATA) recently reported that the industry is experiencing a shortage of about 80,000 drivers. Some of the Most Common Warehouse Inefficiencies .

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Ship Monk

APRIL 13, 2023

When it comes to ecommerce order fulfillment, two of the most important operational factors are speed and accuracy. The faster your warehouse or 3PL can fill orders (while maintaining accuracy, of course), the more responsive they can be to spikes in order volume, and the easier it will be to scale your ecommerce business.

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Locus

JUNE 16, 2023

Naturally, the costs of meeting such expectations, especially on the delivery front are also increasing. Fuel costs: Last-mile fuel costs require careful management as they make up 25% of a truck’s operational costs over volatile price fluctuations. It is no secret that customer expectations are really high these days.

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Last mile delivery within retail and ecommerce is complex and vital to get right. Start with an Optimised Route Plan Many fleet operators make use of route planning solutions to support with retail and ecommerce deliveries. For legitimate and arbitrary reasons, planners make changes to optimised routes.

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Penske Move Ahead

MAY 14, 2020

As businesses adjust to new demands in their daily operations and supply chains, Penske Truck Leasing and Penske Logistics can help with a variety of solutions to meet your fleet and logistics needs including: rental trucks , leases , used trucks and logistics services.

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Blue Grace Logistics

JANUARY 13, 2022

Our nation’s truck drivers and warehouse workforce are being challenged and with every reduction in these resources comes more pressure on available capacity, product shortages and more. Consumer spending and ecommerce are large drivers of the supply chain. Consumer Behavior and Demand.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JANUARY 19, 2022

Many leading companies have publicly committed to change but, as consultants McKinsey note, “In many instances net-zero commitments are running ahead of companies’ own plans to meet them”. The ecommerce sector has an opportunity, indeed, a duty, to use available technology to make right-sized packaging for each individual ecommerce order.

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Logistics Business Magazine

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

He identified key verticals: perishables, pharmaceuticals, ecommerce, oil/gas and advanced materials. Among the first use cases is the Truck Dock Slot Booking application, which aims to even out cargo lodgement and collection at the handler’s airfreight terminals, thereby reducing waiting time.

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Bringg

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

With the eCommerce eruption of the last few years, a great deal of focus has been placed on last mile delivery. The same applies with picking up eCommerce shipments and taking them to a distribution center for the next leg of delivery. In both cases, it involves loading and unloading shipments multiple times.

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CH Robinson Logistics

MARCH 25, 2021

These smaller freight loads typically result in many separate shipments being transported on one truck. Because your shipment only uses a portion of the truck’s available space, you only pay for the space you use. Perfect for ecommerce. LTL freight consists of several smaller shipments that fill an entire truckload.

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Logistics Business Magazine

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The power of our LTL network , its high volume capacity, our last-mile expertise and our agility enable us to design robust, tailor-made solutions to meet our customers’ ambitions.” The company tailors its solutions to the specific needs of its customers in a wide range of industrial and consumer sectors.

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Logistics Business Magazine

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Rather, it is important to think of these transformations as the natural extension of a technologically driven world, in which companies are constantly adapting to meet. Machine learning is poised to meet that market demand. Autonomous trucking is the next frontier for the transport industry. The numbers make the case.

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