Amware Logistics and Fulfillment

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

An eCommerce business lives or dies on the customer experience, making it essential for online sellers to fill orders quickly in a way that keeps customers happy. While this means you shouldn’t cut corners to save costs, you also don’t have to overspend to get top-notch eCommerce order fulfillment services.

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Amware Logistics and Fulfillment

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Amware CEO Harry Drajpuch recently appeared on the Ecommerce Wizards Podcast to discuss the vital role that order fulfillment plays in creating a successful brand.

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Amware Logistics and Fulfillment

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Amware CEO Harry Drajpuch recently appeared on the eCommerce Odyssey Podcast to discuss all things order fulfillment.

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Amware Logistics and Fulfillment

JUNE 7, 2022

Chief among the weapons these combatants are using are claims of fast shipping, typically 2-day fulfillment or less from order to delivery. With the post-Covid rise in online shopping, e-retailers are battling for the minds and wallets of a larger-than-ever market. Can your shipping speed keep up with your competitors’ offerings?

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Amware Logistics and Fulfillment

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Over the past two years, the growth of eCommerce has created more demand – inside and outside the US. To address international eCommerce shipping challenges, many online retailers have turned to third-party logistics providers (3PLs) for help navigating the intricacies of international order fulfillment.

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Amware Logistics and Fulfillment

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

As online businesses grow in size and sophistication, they require two essential systems: an order management system (OMS) to manage front-end order processing and a warehouse management system (WMS) to manage back-end order fulfillment. But it’s an evolutionary process.

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Ship Monk

APRIL 16, 2024

Ecommerce fraud is big business for cyber criminals, and a big problem for ecommerce businesses. In 2023 alone, ecommerce fraud (a.k.a. The good news is that fraud management tactics and tools are making it easier to prevent, catch, and combat ecommerce fraud. Here are some of the most common types of ecommerce fraud.

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Amware Logistics and Fulfillment

APRIL 12, 2022

Pick and pack services are at the core of the eCommerce order fulfillment process. Breaking down the service: a warehouse associate ‘picks’ an order out of inventory and then brings it to a station where the order is ‘packed’ and a shipping label is affixed. Sounds simple, right?

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The Logistics of Logistics

AUGUST 28, 2020

The Ecommerce Lifecycle with AJ Khanijow. AJ Khanijow and Joe Lynch discuss the the ecommerce lifecycle. As the founder of an ecommerce fulfillment company, AJ works closely with ecommerce companies and is an expert in ecommerce fulfillment. Key Takeaways: The Ecommerce Lifecycle. About AJ Khanijow.

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Amware Logistics and Fulfillment

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

With the rise in eCommerce has come an increased consumer expectation for faster order fulfillment. If your business is under pressure from customers to improve the speed of order fulfillment, you may need to change your fulfillment model.

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Ship Monk

MARCH 14, 2024

Why is it that we could put a man on the moon half a century ago, but it is still insanely expensive and complex to ship an ecommerce order to a customer in Europe? What if we told you that the right strategy can not only make global order fulfillment affordable, it can also take most of the stress out of it?

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Ship Monk

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

To an eCommerce entrepreneur, having their brand grow and scale is fulfillment. Funnily for the last person on that list the key to achieving a sense of fulfillment is how well they’re able to execute order fulfillment. Order fulfillment has four main steps. What is Order Fulfillment?

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Amware Logistics and Fulfillment

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Many online sellers find eCommerce returns management difficult to handle. Most eCommerce order fulfillment operations focus on getting products out the door and into the hands of customers without much consideration for what happens when a customer sends the order back.

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Ship Monk

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

Whether you’re a small ecommerce brand with the right stuff to make it, or a big ecommerce brand that’s long been established, budget never stops being important. How much are you spending on manufacturing, shipping, marketing, customer support, logistics services, and order fulfillment services?

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Ship Monk

MARCH 27, 2024

Whether you run a small or medium sized ecommerce brand or a giant international company, the right people mean the difference between failure and success. That being said, for more monotonous and time-consuming routine tasks, automation can take the blooming flower of your ecommerce brand and turn it into a full bouquet.

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Amware Logistics and Fulfillment

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Operationally, it requires far more labor to pick and pack individual orders than to ship out pallets of goods to retailers. Thanks to skyrocketing labor costs for warehouse workers, eTailers have experienced a marked increase in eCommerce fulfillment center costs – already their biggest warehouse expense.

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Amware Logistics and Fulfillment

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

If you’re looking to lower costs and increase the efficiency of your eCommerce warehouse operations, your first thought might be to add automation. What if you don’t have the order volume to justify the cost? Following are a few low-tech ways to reduce eCommerce warehouse fulfillment center costs without breaking the bank.

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Amware Logistics and Fulfillment

MAY 31, 2022

Your ability to deliver a great ecommerce customer experience depends on how well you navigate the array of order fulfillment problems that can happen between the order and the delivery. Contending with these problems can be maddening. Fortunately, most fulfillment problems have clear solutions.

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Amware Logistics and Fulfillment

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Every hour counts in eCommerce orders, making it essential to leverage order fulfillment metrics to streamline the fulfillment process. Order fulfillment service providers typically leverage a broad range of technologies that allow them to gather various data.

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Amware Logistics and Fulfillment

DECEMBER 15, 2020

South of the North Pole, our eCommerce driven economy also relies on an army of unsung fulfillment professionals who are working extra-hard to get your orders out the door. eCommerce warehouse management software is one of those critical tools. eCommerce warehouse management software is one of those critical tools.

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Ship Monk

MARCH 21, 2024

With most ecommerce businesses, however, the sales pipeline isn’t nearly as long or as hands-on. Today’s CRM platforms have adapted and expanded their tools to meet the needs of ecommerce businesses. Let’s take a look at CRM systems, the tools they provide, and the benefits they offer to ecommerce businesses.

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Amware Logistics and Fulfillment

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Most consumers have become comfortable shopping online due to the pandemic, but the rise in online shipments leads to apprehension about supply chain sustainability in eCommerce.

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Amware Logistics and Fulfillment

JULY 14, 2020

COVID-19 has triggered an increase in online orders. Operationally, it requires far more manpower to pick and pack individual orders than it does to ship out pallets of goods to retailers. Most are predicting that the increase in B2C fulfillment will sustain, even as retail stores emerge from hibernation.

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Ship Monk

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

As much as we’d like to think that ecommerce is taking over the world, it still only accounts for around 21% of retail sales according to a 2023 Digital Commerce 360 analysis of U.S. In fact, there can be significant advantages for brands that engage in both ecommerce and brick-and-mortar sales. Department of Commerce figures.

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Trinity Logistics

MARCH 25, 2024

The Beginning of ECommerce Over time, ecommerce has taken the baton from traditional brick-and-mortar stores, leaving many big-box store retailers high and dry. COVID-19 Creates Rapid Growth Due to health concerns and social distancing practices, COVID-19 rapidly escalated the use of ecommerce. Department of Commerce.

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Ship Monk

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

As an eCommerce business owner, what goes inside your boxes is just as important as what goes outside, i.e. the shipping label that provides pivotal information about what is being shipped, how it is being shipped, where it’s going, and who it’s going to. Carefully Consider Your eCommerce Shipping Needs. What Goes on a Shipping Label?

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Amware Logistics and Fulfillment

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

2020 was a chaotic year for eCommerce shipping – for the parcel carriers delivering those orders, the at-home customers dependent on reliable fulfillment, and for you, the online seller trying to keep customers happy while absorbing some pretty stiff parcel shipping cost increases.

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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. Unfortunately, every once in a while a frown appears when an order goes wrong. If handled incorrectly, these peak season order issues can negatively impact your brand and drive away return customers.

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Ship Monk

APRIL 5, 2024

Was it the last time you placed an order? Whether your business is a small ecommerce startup or a big box retailer, the benefits of supplier relationship management are the same. For example, we love working with our ecommerce clients and, based on their feedback, they love working with us. The last time you signed a contract?

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Ship Monk

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Ecommerce bands, even those with amazing reverse logistics operations in place, feel the negative impact of returns. If your ecommerce brand is dealing with a return then typically one of three things has happened: 1.) Your customer doesn’t like what they ordered. The order your customer received was damaged.

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Ship Monk

JANUARY 9, 2024

We can’t predict when joggers will go out of style (never, we hope) but we are pretty good at predicting ecommerce trends. Since ShipMonk is a third-party logistics provider (3PL for short), we’re well situated to observe the ecommerce supply chain from end to end. Here are a few of the trends we think are going to be big in 2024.

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Ship Monk

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

This wouldn’t be an ecommerce blog if we didn’t talk about Amazon. So, if you own or manage an ecommerce brand, Amazon has to be one of the first sales channels you consider. Just hop on board the Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) bus, and you can outsource all the post-purchase headaches that come with running an ecommerce business.

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Ship Monk

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

In the world of ecommerce fulfillment there are only so many things you can control. You can carefully manage your inventory, you can utilize digital warehousing and advanced order management software to improve the fulfillment process, and you can sweeten the unboxing experience with branded packaging and personalized inserts.

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Ship Monk

JANUARY 31, 2024

Every ecommerce business that becomes a ShipMonk 3PL client is a priority. Of course we’re talking about your ecommerce store’s data security. Why is Ecommerce Cybersecurity Important? Protecting Ecommerce Store Customers Your ecommerce customers are at risk if information from your business is misused or not properly protected.

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Ship Monk

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Ecommerce businesses depend on 3PL fulfillment companies and shipping carriers to make good on their promises to customers. Those promises include accurate order fulfillment and on-time delivery. There are several possible situations in which an ecommerce business might be expected to send a reshipment. Order Tracking.

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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. Okay, there are two ways we could write this part of our eco-friendly ecommerce blog: 1.) million tons of trash, and 1/3 of that was packaging material.

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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. Okay, there are two ways we could write this part of our eco-friendly ecommerce blog: 1.) million tons of trash, and 1/3 of that was packaging material.

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