GoShip Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Over the years, marketing strategies have evolved with the times, the advent of technology, and changes in consumer behavior. If your small business must survive amidst the stiff competition in the eCommerce industry, formulating an effective marketing plan that targets your specific customer base is essential.

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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. To learn more about the differences between USPS, FedEx, UPS, DHL and regional carriers, check out our Comparing eCommerce Shipping Carriers blog. Value of Contents.

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GoShip Blog

JULY 28, 2022

A returns management solution helps you handle the returned items effectively to satisfy your ecommerce customers without hurting your profit margin. . Why managing returns is important for ecommerce. The right return strategy for your business will depend on its unique needs. Consider the costs of returns.

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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 factors to measure are: greenhouse gas emissions, energy, water, waste, recycling and compost. So, what can you do to make your brand more sustainable, and where do you start?

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Ship Monk

MARCH 30, 2023

Fortunately, as an ecommerce business owner, there are solid steps you can take to create or optimize a sustainable supply chain. The ecommerce supply chain spans the sourcing, manufacturing, and distribution of products. 5 Strategies for Sustainable Supply Chain Management We know the why , but what about the how ?

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 10, 2021

Following their fourth quarter results, top executives talked about their supply chain and omnichannel strategy at a high level. This new infrastructure will allow the retailer to expand ecommerce assortment while reducing both shipping time and cost. Around the world, ecommerce is growing much faster than in-store sales.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Many major challenges of 2021—capacity constraints, ecommerce growth and driver shortage—are rolling over into 2022 and, in addition, the environment and machine learning are becoming more important for logistics and supply chain professionals. Online buying will fuel home delivery growth, challenges and new strategies.

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Ship Monk

JANUARY 29, 2024

Each time a customer makes a purchase from your ecommerce brand they are giving you two things. And if the purchase doesn’t end up working out for some reason; they’re trusting that your ecommerce brand will take care of it and them. The first is obvious—their business. The second, which is less obvious, is their trust.

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Logistics Business Magazine

APRIL 2, 2024

Used pallets are exempt from packaging waste regulations, so businesses using them also cut down administration and cost. Sustainability-focused strategies for supply chains are no longer a ‘nice-to-have’; they are essential to meeting legislative obligations and the demands of our customers.”

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Blue Grace Logistics

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Growers, shippers, and retailers with advanced supply chain strategies are earning consumer loyalty, thanks in part to the supply chain professionals who plan, execute, and adapt to the challenges posed by fresh produce. This helps reduce waste and environmental impact.

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Ship Monk

APRIL 28, 2023

Which means in the world of ecommerce business, entrepreneurs may feel torn between making eco-friendly decisions and strategic business ones. The good news is that you can stick that stigma where the sun don’t shine because there are plenty of ways to run a profitable eco-friendly ecommerce brand. What is Sustainable Ecommerce?

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Ship Monk

MAY 10, 2022

In other words: Why waste countless hours from afar hopping through complicated international hoops as you try to find all the answers yourself? At the end of the day, eCommerce is complex enough as it is. Through 2020 eCommerce sales grew by 18.1% In the US alone, in 2021 eCommerce amounted to $469.2

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Ship Monk

MAY 23, 2023

Things that customers and ecommerce merchants dislike equally: “Where’s my order?” Once your ecommerce brand has reached significant sales, and you can effectively analyze buyer behavior, it’s time to think about the best ways to disperse your inventory. Strategically located fulfillment centers. 2PL vs. 3PL Warehouses store things.

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Ship Monk

JULY 25, 2022

In this competitive eCommerce era where in 2022 US eCommerce online retail sales are expected to cross $1 trillion for the first time, warehouse solutions have never been more important. Warehouses tend to be bigger than storage solutions because warehouses and fulfillment centers can serve many, many eCommerce merchants at once.

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Ship Monk

APRIL 17, 2024

Back in the early 2000s, when gas prices were climbing to never-before-seen heights, ecommerce was billed as eco-friendly when compared to millions of people driving around to multiple stores to do their shopping. Meanwhile, the environmental costs are piling up (literally) in carbon emissions, packaging waste, and unsalable merchandise.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Inventory management is a crucial aspect of supply chain management, and effective strategies can help businesses reduce costs, improve customer service, and increase profits. But what does a great inventory management strategy look like? Amazon did not invent the random storage approach. Book your free consultation.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MAY 2, 2023

To address these issues, in 2020 iForce embarked on a business-wide initiative to develop a strategy for investment into advanced warehouse automation, and as a key client The Works was fully involved and supportive of the move. There are important benefits for the customer too.

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GlobalTranz

JULY 2, 2015

In it’s purest form, lean manufacturing is about eliminating waste and increasing quality and consistency — despite the pundits who insist you can be lean only if you can spell and pronounce words such as kaizen, kanban and heijunka. Once that is done, running equipment — no matter how efficiently — is a waste. Get Lean the Easy Way.

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FW Logsitcs

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Conventional plastic, while durable and cheap, becomes waste that takes centuries to degrade. By reducing the amount consumed, they can dramatically decrease waste and costs. Choose Reusable Packaging Encouraging customers to return packaging for reuse is an effective way to reduce waste.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JUNE 28, 2023

The keyword for the day was ‘REDUCE’: reducing waste and minimizing impact while maintaining efficiency and production performance. CID23 attracted over 150 guests from five continents, representing major eCommerce companies and logistics players.

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FreightWaves SONAR

MARCH 3, 2021

The idea went something like this: There is no strategy without intelligence , so gain as much information as possible on the current state of things. The cycle provided the kind of actionable ecommerce supply chain analytics for us to evolve and improve. With insight in hand, identify the best problems to solve.

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Ship Monk

MARCH 15, 2024

ShipMonk is privileged to work with so many amazing ecommerce brands, and we are honored to help them achieve their business goals every day through custom 3PL services and omnichannel fulfillment solutions. Reflecting on your journey, what would you say to a young woman looking to pursue an entrepreneurship and ecommerce career path?

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Logistics Business Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Changes in ownership invariably trigger reviews of business strategies and consequent reassessment of whether the right skills and expertise are in place to achieve the new goals. The processes are analogous to, but with significant differences from, consumer eCommerce.

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Rossi added, “we believe in sharing expertise to help customers reduce waste, streamline production, and increase sustainable productivity. At the heart of this is a solid commitment to reducing plastics, paving new pathways for alternative fibres, and designing out waste altogether.”

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Logistics Business Magazine

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

“The significant growth of returns aligns with explosive e-fulfilment growth over the last several years, and it is a mandate for change across every part of the supply chain,” said Andre Luecht, Global Strategy Lead for Transportation, Logistics and Warehouse, Zebra Technologies.

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GoShip Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Standing out from the crowd among millions of ecommerce businesses in the US requires you to connect with your audience on an emotional level. The ecommerce industry is more competitive than it has ever been. It is the strategy a company implements to wisely utilize natural resources and conservatively meet its operational needs.

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Logistics Business Magazine

APRIL 24, 2019

On the back of International Earth Day [22 April 2019], fulfilmentcrowd has revealed its vision to become ‘the UK’s first fully sustainable order fulfilment provider by 2021’, after launching a new sustainable strategy titled the ‘Lorax Project’.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JANUARY 20, 2022

With capacity constraints, ecommerce growth and driver shortages creating dilemmas for many as well as the increased focus from the industry on environment and machine learning, it was a year that was definitely not without its tests. 2021 saw many major challenges for logistics and supply chain professionals.

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Logistics Bureau

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

We’ll begin with a look at pricing strategy. Do You Lack Confidence in Your Pricing Strategies? If not, your pricing strategies could inadvertently limit your profit margins , either by throttling revenue or gifting sales to your competitors. Are You Missing Opportunities in Pricing Strategy?

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The rapid shifts to eCommerce during the pandemic caused retailers and brand owners alike to flex their network nodes (where goods are made and inventories are stocked) significantly. As Winston Churchill said, “Never let a good crisis go to waste”. They are designing career paths to retain and grow such talent.

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Logistics Business Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2022

With a proven track record of efficiency and global recognition as a leader in its sector, in November 2020 CMC became a portfolio company of KKR’s Global Impact strategy – powering greater innovation with sustainable technology. Now more than ever sustainability is paramount, especially reducing waste and their climate impact.

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GoShip Blog

APRIL 21, 2022

Importance of Using Social Media in Your Ecommerce Strategy. The most significant advantage of incorporating social media in your ecommerce strategy is that it allows you to showcase your business to a broad audience at a low cost. According to recent studies by Datareportal, the world currently has over 4.6

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Talking Logistics

MAY 14, 2019

Commercialization strategies evolve, supply chains expand, and production rates accelerate. Addressing this challenge, executives are rethinking their business models and strategies to improve product quality and avoid issues surrounding test results, material specifications, non-conformances, recalls, and supplier corrective action requests.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MARCH 27, 2024

Leading Finnish logistics services provider Inex Partners Oy has partnered with SEE to enhance packaging automation, as part of its strategy to further improve efficiencies, customer satisfaction and capacity for managing sales peaks. Inex handles fulfilment and distribution of E-Commerce orders for one of Finland’s largest retailers.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 28, 2015

These are but extensions of the idea to maximize omni- channel strategies by putting the customer at the heart of the supply chain. . 5 Strategies to Personalize Your Web Experience to Put the Customer Focus at the Heart of the Omni-Channel Supply Chain. Services Personalization. Personalized E-Mail Campaign.

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GoShip Blog

MARCH 7, 2023

It helps you identify the inefficient aspects of your business processes and decipher the best strategies to refine them. These reviews help you assess possible areas of improvement to keep your business thriving in the highly saturated eCommerce industry. Ask your customers about your business.

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Logistics Business Magazine

APRIL 23, 2021

The demand on ecommerce was staggering. Conversations about infrastructure, reshoring, last-mile delivery, regionalisation, automation, staffing, and ecommerce were happening across every industry. Ecommerce boom: the acceleration in ecommerce purchasing caught many companies by surprise.

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