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Hazmat Products Shipping Tutorial for Ecommerce Businesses

Ship Monk

While you may not be in the business of selling combustible materials, like lithium for example, all sorts of toys, electronics, and household items contain lithium-ion batteries, from cordless toothbrushes to vaping devices. But you do need to make sure that everyone has the proper training and certification to handle hazmat products.

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Amazon’s Freight (Train) Is Coming

GlobalTranz

Amazon announced that it shipped 5 billion items through Prime alone in 2017, and some analysts estimate it will ship over 4 billion packages in 2018. Four Billion Shipments I s The Tip Of The Iceberg US shipping behemoths FedEx, UPS, and the US Post Office deliver about 17 billion packages a year. GET YOUR FREE WHITE PAPER.

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Automated Hand-Scanning Upgrade

Logistics Business Magazine

The automation of hand scanning processes increases productivity at inbound and outbound areas of logistics hubs dramatically. Hand-held barcode readers are still widely used to ensure the traceability of goods and packages, for example in retail, warehousing and parcel sorting operations.

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Improved Supply Chain Visibility Requires an End-to-End Solutions

Logistics Viewpoints

FourKites provides a supply chain visibility platform that can ingest location and status data from trucks, trains, ships, and other transportation assets, and then provide visibility to where a company’s goods are, along with predictive times of arrivals. You must understand the new train schedule.

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Express Cargo Sorting

Logistics Business Magazine

About 8% of total volume comes to the cage, with 5700 packages there on average, at any one time. For example, a flight from Paris CDG arriving at 04.00 Capacity is determined by the speed of the sorter through the x-ray scan tunnels, and the system maintains gaps between packages by selecting which belt to send them on.

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Thank You Thursday Shout Outs – October

Ship Monk

She is always lending a helping hand to other associates and does great with training. He is quite flexible and came in early on several occasions to be trained on equipment and help make SLA. It is time for the woooo train!! She is a shining example of excellence in her department. Thank you, Ale!!! We appreciate you!

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Thank You Thursday Shout Outs – November

Ship Monk

Not only is Ray our top performer building-wide, but he’s also our top ambassador, training almost every picker in the building. Leads trained for peak, while also working with a new supervisor. She does a great job of training new associates and goes above and beyond in her role. #TYT from our Outbound Team.