12 Ways that Big Data is Transforming the Shipping Industry
You have shipping data at your fingertips, even if you’re not yet using it. For retailers, each mouse click, each customer email, each item added to an ecommerce basket...
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8 Best Practices for Last Mile Delivery
Last mile delivery in a supply chain is an important part of the customer experience. In addition to providing customer satisfaction, there are a lot of financial and logistics...
4 Reasons Why Your Business Needs Omnichannel Fulfillment
In this age of Amazon’s free two-day shipping (or even one-day shipping), your business needs a competitive edge. That edge helps you keep up with other e-commerce companies, but...
Automated Shipping: How to Optimize for Efficiency
With a rising numbers of internet orders, the e–commerce business is booming. That also means everything in the shipping process is sped-up, with high pressure to get things done...
UPS vs. FedEx Shipping Rates: Which Are Better For Your Business?
When it comes to choosing a shipping provider, everyone has their own opinion. For businesses, however, personal preference oftentimes must be set aside for more practical reasons such as...
The FedEx Shipping Discount: What is it and How to Get One?
If you’re paying the standard list rates for FedEx shipments, you’re paying too much. You’ll find that more than one type of FedEx shipping discount is available through various...
How to Get Shipping Discounts with UPS
Shipping is a big cost for companies. In 2019, logistics fees ate 11% of total sales revenues on average for shippers. And with online shopping rising, shipping takes on...
Tips for Optimizing Your Shipping Budget With FedEx and UPS
When reviewing an annual company budget, one area to pay special attention to is the shipping budget. Whether you run an ecommerce store or another business that might ship...
Freight Payment Process 101
The idea of freight payment is not difficult to understand, however doing it in a way that saves the company money and optimizes other business goals, is much more...
Understanding the Freight Audit Process
It would be nice if every freight invoice was accurate, and the shipper could feel comfortable paying the bill with no doubts that the amount shown and the details...