When it comes to your company's e-commerce fulfillment services, there are many downsides to handling shipping in-house. Packaging, labeling, sorting, and shipping are best carried out by dedicated distribution centres rather than employees who are taking time away from other duties. Furthermore, large numbers of shipments may exceed the capacity of your own staff; in fact, such volume should be the goal of any ambitious business. While it is understandable to be reluctant about letting an outside firm handle a value-added service like e-commerce order fulfillment, doing so can provide a net benefit to both you and your customers. We...Secrets to Successfully Outsourcing Your E-Commerce Order Fulfillment
When it comes to your company's e-commerce fulfillment services, there are many downsides to handling shipping in-house. Packaging, labeling, sorting, and shipping are best carried out by dedicated distribution centres rather than employees who are taking time away from other duties. Furthermore, large numbers of shipments may exceed the capacity of your own staff; in fact, such volume should be the goal of any ambitious business. While it is understandable to be reluctant about letting an outside firm handle a value-added service like e-commerce order fulfillment, doing so can provide a net benefit to both you and your customers. We...
How to Manage Growth in Fulfillment and Inventory
Once your fulfillment business is underway, you’ll hopefully begin to see how well you’re doing financially. But many retailers forget that success means being busier and having more chances for your business to get disorganized. Not adapting and learning to manage growth can have severe consequences, especially in today’s competitive fulfillment marketplace. For better inventory and fulfillment management once your company starts to grow, be aware of the following: (more…)
What to Look for in a Supplement, Vitamin, and Nutraceutical Fulfillment Services Provider?
With the public’s adamant attention to health and well-being these days, it’s understandable that the nutritional supplement, or nutraceutical, business is an increasingly popular one. In fact, the whole industry brings in over $25.0 billion a year. If you operate a fulfillment services business and want to expand your opportunities or launch into a new venture, health supplements and nutraceuticals are an unquestionably lucrative industry to dive into. But nutraceuticals aren’t like other fulfillment products. There are some specific considerations to note: (more…)
How Important is Fulfillment Same-Day Shipping?
You don’t see a lot of 30-minutes-or-less pizza delivery services anymore. Why is that? Some companies ran into problems with delivering on time and without incident. It was an easy promise to make, but a tough one to keep. The same is true for fulfillment companies. If you’re going to promise fast services like same-day shipping, you better be sure to follow through on those promises every time. There’s a lot of debate about the merits of same-day shipping. The following are some things to consider: (more…)
How to Reduce Picking and Packing Errors
Error crops up all the time in business. There’s no way around it and it’s just a matter of trying to fix them as they come up. In pick-and-pack fulfillment, errors arise a bit more frequently. The process of selecting, bundling, and shipping packaged goods can get muddled. However if it gets too problematic then you lose efficiency and damage your reputation. If you’re looking to reduce your picking and packing errors, here are some areas to start: (more…)
Top Return Management Services Myths—Busted
There was a time when if you bought a faulty or defective product, you either took it back to the store for a replacement, or you got your money back. Nowadays, returns are a bit more complex. There are policies, costs, and debates around which solutions are available for returned goods once they’ve come back. With these return complexities come a lot of myths. If you have a return management solutions process going for your company, you have to know the truth to operate more efficiently. Here are five return management services myths, busted and debunked, along with some advice...
When Selecting an Order Fulfillment Warehouse, Location Matters
With modern technology, people now think they can do everything more or less remotely. For the most part, it’s true; you can do a lot of remote work and outsource many duties. But while you have some freedom in terms of your own location, you also have to consider the location of your third parties. This is especially important with warehousing fulfillment. Below are the long-term benefits: (more…)
The Benefits of Outsourcing Your E-Commerce Fulfillment
If you have your own retail or fulfillment business, you likely have a lot of pride, and rightfully so—it’s your business and you want the best reputation and highest profits. With that in mind, you likely want to oversee every job yourself, believe this will allow you more control over its operations. The downside of this way of thinking is that you might find that, despite your best efforts, there are too many tasks, and a decrease in efficiency as a result. No matter how hard you think you can work to manage all of your e-commerce jobs, you likely...
Quick Tips for Shipping Internationally
Today’s retailers have opportunities that didn’t exist decades before. Thanks to the Internet and e-commerce developments, it is possible for clients to be obtained farther nationally and, now more than ever, across international borders. This expanded client base has obvious potential for retailers, but it also requires some serious considerations, as shipping internationally is a fulfillment job unto itself. Here are some specific tips: 1. Choose Your Products Wisely Depending on their sizes, some products are easier to ship than others. If you have small items, they can be easy and reasonably cheap to ship almost anywhere. Bigger items, however,...
The Printing Process: All About Digital Printing
There are many misconceptions about printing services for today’s businesses, particularly digital printing and demand printing services. But digital printing is a multifaceted process with lots of benefits. What is Digital Printing? Simply put, digital printing is transferring digital content onto paper. Unlike more traditional commercial printing techniques, digital printing doesn’t require any sort of major techniques, like manual type setting and its cumbersome printing presses; these can now be controlled through a computer interface. (more…)
