What It Means to Expand Your Distribution Center Network A distribution center network is a collection of warehouses and transportation systems that receive products from shippers and deliver them to customers. Distribution networks vary in size and complexity...
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How to Track Your Seller Performance on Amazon
Why Tracking Seller Performance on Amazon is Essential Monitoring Amazon KPIs is critical for sellers to achieve long-term and short-term success on Amazon. By keeping track of Amazon Seller Performance metrics, you can: Gain valuable insights for improving your...
Compostable Packaging: The Pros and Cons in 2023
What is Compostable Packaging? Plastic packaging materials like parcels, stickers, and polythene bags account for 42% of all plastic produced worldwide. Unfortunately, it has a very short usability lifetime (typically around 6 months or less). This is where businesses...
eCommerce Sustainability: A Comprehensive Look at 2023 Consumer Attitudes
Parcel shipping has endured more change in the last three years than in the last three decades combined. With consumers forced to stay home, eCommerce spiked and left a "parcelpocalypse" of supply chain disruptions, carrier capacity issues, and shipping delays. With...
The Future of Shipping: How These 7 Companies are Leading the Way in Sustainability
‘Sustainable’ and ‘eco-friendly’ aren’t just buzzwords but a way of life. Consumers are becoming increasingly aware of the impact that their choices have on the environment, and businesses are taking note. Especially in the parcel shipping space. As the demand for...
Understanding your Amazon Sales Reports to Calculate Performance
Why Understanding Your Amazon Sales Reports is Important Amazon sellers have access to endless reports in Seller Central, like Amazon Advertising Reports, Amazon Business Reports, Amazon Inventory Reports, and Amazon Shipping Performance Reports. These reports enable...
Striking a Balance: The Potential Impact of the Teamsters Agreement on the Parcel Logistics Industry
If your shipping business relies on UPS to deliver packages (inbound or outbound) to operate, scale up, or even survive, you need to be prepared. The Teamster's current agreement expires on July 31, 2023. And while UPS CEO Carol Tomé says she believes that the company...
Who Is at Fault for Damaged Packages in Transit?
Who’s at Fault for Damaged Packages? Whether you sell products online or in a brick-and-mortar store, there’s something that all eCommerce sellers have to deal with – customer returns and refunds. Denying a return request is not an option, especially if you care about...
UPS Large Package Surcharges in 2024: How to Lower Surcharge Fees
What is the UPS large package surcharge? UPS is actively trying to eliminate large, oversized shipments that are difficult to handle or process. They impose heavy fees called large package surcharges to cover the additional costs, time, and labor involved in storing...
Carrier Management: Critical Functions and Why It’s Important
What Is Carrier Management? Carrier management is important for healthy operations and relationships between the shipper and the carrier. One of the ways to organize this is using by using Logistics Intelligence to help resolve challenges with obtaining the right...