Ship Monk

MARCH 14, 2023

If that’s you and you’re an ecommerce business owner, keep reading for eco-friendly packaging options your company could invest in this year to save money and help preserve the planet. What is Eco-Friendly Packaging? Example: a bicycle is more eco-friendly than a sedan, but a sedan is more eco-friendly than a Hummer.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MAY 27, 2021

Jörg Spiekermann, sales manager for palletising and packaging systems in the Consumer Goods area of Beumer Group , knows how to solve individual tasks with standard components. “For our customers, it is often not just a matter of packaging goods simply to protect them from environmental influences,” says Spiekermann.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JUNE 23, 2022

A manufacturer of plastic bags for food packaging that operates a factory in Poland has been using Delta automation technology on its production lines for years. Of course, implementing DIAView was very straightforward since the Delta automation equipment already in operation at the facility was completely compatible.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

My first impression at that time was the mental image it provoked – a delivery truck pulling up to my house and placing a package that I hadn’t ordered on my front door, but ultimately decided to keep. Of course, the progress of Amazon Prime over the last decade has leveled the playing field quite a bit.

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Logistics Business Magazine

DECEMBER 18, 2019

The war on packaging waste is fought on many fronts in the beverage industry – from the manufacturers of packaging materials to the bottler. The way to produce ever more sustainable primary and secondary packaging involves two major lines of approach: recycle and reduce. He explains what he means in the following example.

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Ship Monk

APRIL 25, 2024

An item has been purchased online, your 3PL has processed the order and sent instructions to the appropriate fulfillment center, and following the picking, packing, and shipping, the package is now on the final phase of its route. This typically means the ecommerce order is on the ultimate truck that will deliver the package to your customer.

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Stord

MAY 15, 2024

For those unfamiliar, dwell time refers to the gap between a 3PL or fulfillment provider’s marking an order as “shipped, ” and the moment a shipping carrier actually scans the package into its system and truly begins to move the package. It’s important to note that there’s always some dwell time; it’s to be expected and not a problem.

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Ship Monk

JANUARY 29, 2024

When something goes wrong with a shipment (a package or item within it is damaged, lost, or stolen), that’s like trusting someone to take you to the airport. That means providing multiple means of contacting customer service like online portals, apps, and instructions inserted within packages and sent via email. Move Like the Wind!

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 15, 2016

Small package and parcel shipping charges can account for up to 5 percent of a shipper’s total expenses, reports Gary Oswald of PARCEL Media. However, more shippers are taking advantage of the benefits of outsourced small package auditing. Outsourced Small Package Auditing is Faster Than In-House Audits. Auditing of Auditing.

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World Food Programme Logistics

OCTOBER 15, 2019

An interview with the WFP Food Safety & Quality Unit’s packaging expert A packaging engineer? knowing how to optimize packaging can be, quite literally, a lifesaver. To mark World Food Day, which shines the spotlight on the issue of food waste, I sit over a coffee with WFP’s packaging expert Carole Manceau.

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GoShip Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

While many business owners are aware of the negative effects of damaged goods and packages, many still struggle to understand what freight damage is, how it occurs, and how to mitigate risks. Imagine the long journey your package has gone to reach your doorstep. Imagine the long journey your package has gone to reach your doorstep.

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Ship Monk

APRIL 28, 2023

Go with a More Sustainable Shipping Strategy Billions of packages are shipped just within the US every year. That includes using full pallet space, selecting the right size of packaging for orders, choosing the best option in terms of floor-loaded shipping vs. palletized shipping , knowing when to leverage freight shipping , etcetera.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 22, 2024

Georgia-Pacific and its subsidiaries manufacture and distribute a wide range of consumer products, including bath tissue, paper towels, napkins, tableware, paper-based packaging, cellulose, specialty fibers, and building products. Of course, getting a promise right is vital. Using words to describe Causal AI only takes you so far.

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Stord

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Atlanta, GA, November 16, 2022 – Stord , the Cloud Supply Chain leader, today announced Stord Parcel , a carrier-agnostic last-mile delivery solution with advanced modeling to automatically choose the most efficient and cost-effective carrier and service level that meets the expected delivery date for all packages.

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Ship Monk

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

However, some brands have unique requirements based on their products, for example HAZMAT products, products requiring FDA approval , and products that are sensitive to temperature. AM add-on options include: wholesale, contracted parking, inspection, waste management, cross-docking and, of course, ecommerce.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Amazon has already taken extensive steps to establish itself as a leader in full truckload, less than truckload, multimodal, small package and last-mile delivery services. For example, Tesla plans to build a fleet of 500 autonomous trucks, says Kirsten Korosec of Fortune. But that is not stopping others from trying.

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Ship Monk

MARCH 12, 2024

However, instead of this being a package with multiple SKUs inside, the bundle counts as one SKU. These pre-established bundles also mean less looking around for outlier items to put into a package. An example of this could be ordering a custom car. Cue the wonders of kitting services! What is Ecommerce Kitting?

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Logistics Business Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The company in this example has tailored its fulfilment concept precisely to these demands and implemented it with state-of-the-art technology from its long-term intralogistics partner SSI Schaefer. Example contents include headache pills, nasal sprays, and adhesive bandages.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Whereas online courses and programmes were previously managed as a separate entity, they are now an integral part of most academic systems. The study showed that upwards of 30 percent of American students enrolled in at least one online course in 2018. Online courses are the quickest path for a student to obtain a degree.

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Ship Monk

APRIL 30, 2024

How quickly do you need to restock, how should you split your inventory across multiple locations , and of course what kind of inventory ordering system best suits your brand? Where is the package? Delivery Confirmation whereby you, the ecommerce brand, ensure your customer is aware that a package has arrived.

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Ship Monk

JANUARY 11, 2024

Of course, the opposite is also true — when handled poorly, returns can hurt your brand. Sunken costs: This includes the labor and packaging to fulfill the original order, plus shipping, insurance, duties, and any other fees. Let’s take apparel, for example. the cost of goods sold). We’ve got news for you.

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Trans Global Auto Logistics

MARCH 1, 2021

While this example may seem extreme, this incident happened in late 2020, and there have been several other similar incidents since. Of course, most cargo arrives without issues, but if 2020 taught us anything- it is that we should always prepare for the unexpected. Enter: Marine Insurance.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

For example, you can look at: 1) Your products and the way you package them for shipping. Products and Packaging. Packaging can play an influential role in the utilisation of container capacity, and in many cases, that influence is negative, because containerisation is often omitted from packaging design considerations.

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Forto

JUNE 23, 2020

The abbreviation FBA stands for Fulfillment by Amazon, which means that the entire logistical processing of your sales is handled by Amazon: FBA takes care of warehousing, picking your goods, packaging and shipping. There is one catch with Amazon FBA, of course: the service costs money. You do not have to rent additional storage space.

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Stord

JULY 6, 2022

All of these other players build technology to augment the specific physical logistics services that they offer and/or give clients insights into exactly what these logistics companies are doing on their behalf (for example what orders were shipped). Other logistics partners can help to solve one piece of this puzzle.

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Logistics Business Magazine

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The catalyst has been the emergence of readily available, low-Capex and highly flexible automation – the likes of intelligent mobile robots and advanced fit-to-size packaging systems. These packaging systems are ‘flexible’ in a number of senses. So what’s changed? The potential for significant cost reduction is obvious.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JULY 27, 2022

Toyota offers a range of after-sales care and support packages to suit the business needs of companies of all sizes operating in all industry sectors. For example, the ‘full service’ package involves a comprehensive parts and labour plan that covers preventative maintenance, breakdowns and parts used in service and breakdown repairs.

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Ship Monk

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Of course, if you want more specifics you can always track the order using the tracking number you received when the order shipped. And if you’re really desperate for those shoes, you can opt in to receive delivery status updates every time the package moves an inch. How Do Shipping Carriers Track Packages?

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GoShip Blog

MAY 25, 2021

While many business owners are aware of the negative effects of damaged goods and packages, many still struggle to understand what freight damage is, how it occurs, and how to mitigate risks. Imagine the long journey your package has gone to reach your doorstep. Imagine the long journey your package has gone to reach your doorstep.

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IoT World Today

OCTOBER 15, 2020

FedEx, for example, has been on a multiyear digital transformation journey that included cloud computing and work-from-home capabilities but also widespread sensor technology buildouts, robotics forays and continued support of blockchain technologies. Critical packages will have a Bluetooth low-energy lightweight sensor.

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Ship Monk

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

We’re talking about tasks like picking and packing orders, verifying delivery addresses, finding the most affordable way to ship packages, tracking deliveries, handling problems, and managing returns. Let’s take ShipMonk, for example, one of the fastest-growing 3PL fulfillment providers in the US. You do have other options, of course.

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The Lean Thinker

JANUARY 25, 2024

He was an hourly associate whose nominal job was to pull the paperwork, match it up with raw material, and stage the work package into the production queue. In this working example, asking the shop floor workforce to fix this problem would be futile. ” Of course the answer was “No.”

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Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

APRIL 28, 2019

For example, especially online shops often outsource logistics to 3PLs. The big challenges for both company and 3PL are for example that the status-mails of the shipping company appears in the corporate design of the retailer, when the packaging has the same design frames as the shop and also the invoice.

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Ship Monk

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Of course it would, and that’s why ShipMonk exists. Our tech-forward 3PL services help take the weight off your entrepreneurial shoulders in every respect from inventory management to packaging. Take COVID for example. Shipping Order Example. Running an eCommerce brand can be all kinds of stressful.

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Logistics Business Magazine

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

All of Burts Snacks’ new machines feature Toyota’s I_Site integrated telematics package as standard. For example, if a lead acid battery is opportunity charged, this can cause significant implications to the battery. “After seeing the Toyota proposition for our fleet, it was a simple decision for us,” Cresswell says.

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3PL Links

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Let’s examine how the market ended the year, the anticipated course for 2024, and the ever-more-important role that technology plays in this dynamic environment. As we have already bid 2023 farewell, now is the ideal moment to examine logistics industry predictions for the following year.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JULY 8, 2022

Narrow Aisle Ltd, for example, will demonstrate the benefits of the Easi-Pick, a compact ride-on electric-powered vertical order picker designed specifically with e-fulfilment operations in mind. Dark store operators will be able to find everything they need on Bito Storage Systems’ stand.

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