Managing Quality Control of Your Direct Mail Campaign
When it comes to direct mail solutions, quality is essential. Direct mailings come in all shapes and sizes and are used for everything from advertising to giving alerts on policy, products, or program changes. In other words, making sure that direct mailings are intact, contain the right information, and reach the right people can be essential to a business's operations. Therefore, quality assurance for direct mail is not something to be skimpy about. Direct Mail Quality-Control Procedures In direct mail, it is sometimes assumed that quality assurance is something that happens at the production stage. While some companies do run...
What to Know About Outsourcing Apparel Fulfillment Services
Selling clothing from an online store can be lucrative, but it also comes with a few fulfillment challenges unique to clothing. Any apparel—whether shirts, pants, skirts, or even socks—is susceptible to certain quirks in fulfillment service that result when dealing with a high stock-keeping unit (SKU) volume, seasonal spikes and dips, and even returns. As a result, it can be beneficial to try outsourcing your apparel order fulfillment to an outside warehousing and shipping center. Why Outsource to Apparel Fulfillment Companies? (more…)
Benefits of Printed Brochures for Your Business
Business owners understand how important it is to grab and maintain customers’ attentions. That’s why so much emphasis is placed on marketing. Customers need to know who your brand is and what it represents, and being able to tell that story through brochure printing services is a great way to capture your target consumer. Brochure Printing Online and Mailing Services What APS Fulfillment can offer is a way to maximize your direct marketing (more…)
An Overview of Just-In-Time Inventory Management
A vital part of maintaining the efficiency of any business or warehouse is in coordinating the supply-and-demand of your inventory. To avoid overstocking items that surpass the customer demand, it is important for companies to implement a leaner practice that manages production on an as-need basis. That’s where the just-in-time inventory system comes into play. What Is the Just-In-Time (JIT) Inventory System? (more…)
How to Raise Money for a Non-Profit
Non-profit organizations do important work regardless of whether the aim is local, statewide, nationwide, or international in scope. These groups serve communities by helping the needy, providing support to the injured and sick, raising awareness, and much, much more. However, even the most altruistic non-profit cannot function without being properly funded. Fundraising supports necessary services, programs, and items that are needed to carry out your group's goals. When funding falls short, the cost is felt in terms of the impoverished who can't be seen by a doctor or homeless who can't be sheltered. Fundraising also has numerous benefits beyond meeting...
The Steps to Successful Order Fulfillment
We’ve written a lot about the importance of order fulfillment and the role it plays in every business that sells products. Successfully delivering an order from manufacturer to end user isn’t as straightforward as it may seem. Not having a system in place to navigate those orders can lead to unsatisfied customers and lost revenue. But what exactly do those steps look like? What happens from the time an order is placed to the time customers receives their package at their doorstep? (more…)
How to Calculate Shipping Costs for e-Fulfillment Services
As an e-commerce business, your company goes through a lot to decide on how much to charge for each product. Several factors go into that decision along with input from different staff on your team. However, it’s important to consider the cost of e-commerce fulfillment services before making final decisions on what your customers will be paying for any given product. There is definitely a fine line in figuring out what to charge and how that process works. If you end up not charging enough, your net profit could take a serious hit. If you charge too much, customers might...
Explaining Pick and Pack Services
Pick and pack is a set of services that aims to enhance order assembly and delivery; it is provided by many third-party fulfillment companies. Pick and pack allows for more customizable or intricate types of orders and empowers businesses with the ability to offer better product bundles or packages. Although the name "pick and pack" refers to a specific part of the method, the actual process begins well before an order is even placed. The following is how pick-and-pack fulfillment services usually play out. Reception and Storage Pick and pack fulfillment center is based around a central warehouse location. Obviously,...Looking for Outsourcing Fulfillment Services
Whether you’re just starting your e-commerce business or are experiencing growth and are ready to expand, outsourcing your e-fulfillment services is a must. So long as your business is shipping physical products, it will need to incorporate a comprehensive system for effectively shipping the product to the end user. Considering a 3PL Provider Third-party logistics (3PL) companies have evolved greatly. They now offer much more than just inventory storage and pick & pack services. (more…)
E-commerce Fulfillment Trends for in 2016
With the new year approaching, now is a good time to start planning ahead for how your e-commerce business will handle the demands of 2016. The growing shift from brick-and-mortar stores to online ordering and fulfillment can present a host of opportunities, but only if you're savvy enough to stay at the forefront of what consumers are going to be demanding. Here are some trends that are expected to become a central focus of e-commerce fulfillment strategies throughout 2016. Automated Processing One of the advantages of online ordering is that it allows for a level of customization that is not...
