The Logistics of Logistics

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Their flagship course, Understand LTL: Building an LTL Brain , was released in November 2022 and is designed to make LTL less frustrating and intimidating. The course is unique in that it uses humor, visual appreciation, deep thinking, and lightbulb moments to help students learn about LTL.

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Ship Monk

AUGUST 8, 2023

We know there’s a lot to worry about, but we hope you’ve given some thought to what happens after those orders start rolling in. Think about the times you’ve ordered online. Were you irked at being interrupted repeatedly by email signups or having to create an account in order to browse? Hmmm, what are you forgetting?

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Ship Monk

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

You can carefully manage your inventory, you can utilize digital warehousing and advanced order management software to improve the fulfillment process, and you can sweeten the unboxing experience with branded packaging and personalized inserts. Ecommerce order tracking starts the moment the order is placed and ends in successful delivery.

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Ship Monk

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Ah, the ol’ order fulfillment crossroads. It’s not just packing boxes — you also have to take orders to the post office, buy more supplies, and perform daily cleanup. Time taken away from fulfilling your own orders means more time spent marketing, expanding, and kicking butt. #2. Of course, stuff happens. Savings Galore.

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Fulfilment provider PFS defied expectations when it achieved a 24-hour fulfilment order for OnRunning during the recent Laver Cup tennis tournament. PFS has worked with OnRunning since July 2021, managing the direct-to-consumer and B2B order fulfilment for its retail channels.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MAY 22, 2023

The deal is the largest commercial order to date for Volvo electric trucks, and the first 130 trucks will be delivered in 2023 and 2024. Now the company and its contractors have, with Volvo Trucks, agreed to plan for the deployment of 1,000 electric trucks across Holcim’s operations in Europe over the course of the next seven years.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 22, 2024

Executing a Perfect Order is Difficult! According to Mike Carroll, a vice president at Georgia-Pacific, “In creating a more seamless order management process, we needed a capability that enabled us to navigate the complexities of the myriad of individual orders that we receive every minute, hour, and day, with unparalleled precision.

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Ship Monk

OCTOBER 14, 2024

ShipMonk has strategic locations across the globe , including facilities that cover all major areas of the United States and can get orders shipped fast and affordably. Check out how fast your products can go from order fulfillment to delivery from our Louisville, KY warehouse. Can Our Kentucky Order Fulfillment Center Help You?

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Ship Monk

MARCH 14, 2023

Eco-Friendly Packaging and Shipping Materials Packaging and shipping materials are a vital part of every ecommerce order, especially considering how many packages need to travel great distances. Don’t worry though, there’s no need to choose between being eco-friendly and ensuring your ecommerce orders make it safely to your customers.

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Ship Monk

MARCH 14, 2023

Eco-Friendly Packaging and Shipping Materials Packaging and shipping materials are a vital part of every ecommerce order, especially considering how many packages need to travel great distances. Don’t worry though, there’s no need to choose between being eco-friendly and ensuring your ecommerce orders make it safely to your customers.

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Ship Monk

AUGUST 29, 2024

ShipMonk’s 332,000 sq ft California order fulfillment center was built to maximize efficiency while maintaining accuracy for the ecommerce brands we service. Check out how fast your products can go from order fulfillment to delivery from our San Bernardino, CA warehouse. Can Our California Order Fulfillment Center Help You?

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

The Department of Commerce lists warehousing companies, but of course, most warehouses are not owned by third party logistics or public warehousing companies. So, for example, if the back of a store is picking and packing ecommerce orders, that backroom is a warehouse. Why not the Department of Commerce?

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Despite becoming commonplace in commerce in recent years, companies have yet to unlock the full competitive advantage an Order Management System (OMS) can bring to their operations. It is making use of inventory that is the easiest/fastest to get to the customer, no matter through which channel the order was placed.

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Is order picking always the same? STILL – one of the leading suppliers of intralogistics solutions and a successful market player for more than 100 years – says it can provide the right order picking vehicle for any customer requirement. The requirements in order picking are diverse and so are the users’ needs for information.

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Ship Monk

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Unlike other 3PL and 4PL operations, ShipMonk stands out because all our warehouse operations are fully owned and operated by us, which means every inch has been designed for top quality control and precision when fulfilling your ecommerce orders. Can Our Florida Order Fulfillment Center Help You? Contact us now to learn more!

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The Lean Thinker

JULY 11, 2024

No matter which of those courses of action I chose, they are not things I can assign to someone else to do for me. They would schedule “hot” orders in the past to force them to the top of the queue, driving material shortages for later orders – repeating the cycle. I have to do the work myself.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MAY 7, 2020

The new training reforms meant that we needed to change the scope of training in order to operate several forklift trucks or construction machines concurrently, which is something we could not offer from our existing premises. We were also required to have a platform, a bridge crane and other equipment.”. t, and able to handle loads of 1.5

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Logistics Bureau

APRIL 21, 2020

Just to give some idea of what they are facing, these are some of the demands major broadband providers such as China Telecom, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Verizon have to contend with due to complete or partial lockdowns of citizens ordered by various governments: Children studying online as part of home schooling.

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Ship Monk

APRIL 30, 2024

Order Management This is the most important element of ecommerce software. Every part of the fulfillment process from BUY to delivery is critical and the platform responsible for those orders needs to be able to track them at every stage while keeping you updated with complete visibility. How much do I order?

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Logistics Business Magazine

JUNE 17, 2021

The rate of productivity when order picking at ground level depends on the operator’s speed and precision. As a result, employees are relieved of non-value adding activities and order picking performance can be boosted by up to 20%. Short walking and driving distances save time and effort and increase the efficiency of the process.

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Turvo

MAY 27, 2020

However, that statistic will climb in the coming year as companies look to overcome the traditional challenges in the order to cash process and leverage better digital solutions to achieve meaningful change. Of course, even shippers have problems. In fact, Ryder System, Inc.,

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 22, 2024

A customer can of course buy goods in a store. They can also order online and have goods shipped to their home. Or they can order online and pick up the product at the store. An omnichannel order management system helps companies meet growing customer expectations. Rules were used to make these decisions.

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Ship Monk

APRIL 25, 2024

Last-mile delivery refers to the last leg of an ecommerce order’s journey. 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.

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Ship Monk

MARCH 30, 2024

Just as online shoppers have a lot of choices when it comes to where to take their business, ecommerce brands have many options for where to take theirs in terms of order fulfillment. While there are plenty of 3PLs out there that your ecommerce brand could consider for its order fulfillment needs, not all are equal.

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Forto

APRIL 25, 2020

In order to slow the spread of Corona in Germany, everyone is urged to avoid social contacts wherever possible. Of course, this applies not only to the internal distribution of tasks. The post FreightHub stays on course – our crew successfully steers our customers digitally through the corona crisis appeared first on Forto.

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Forto

APRIL 9, 2020

In order to slow the spread of Corona in Germany, everyone is urged to avoid social contacts wherever possible. Of course, this applies not only to the internal distribution of tasks. Digital company organization. We take the physical and mental health of all our employees very seriously. How can logistics companies master them?

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Ship Monk

AUGUST 21, 2024

What is your average shipping cost per order? Which of your SKUs has the highest carrying cost per order? Could ordering more inventory less often, or less inventory more often, save you money? Hence ShipMonk’s order fulfillment platform mentioned above. What is the most commonly cited reason for your product returns?

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The Logistics of Logistics

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Tim Higham and Joe Lynch discuss the free TMS, which is of course AscendTMS. Prior to starting AscendTMS, Tim co-founded and ran a national 3PL, where he invited Palm Beach Capital LLC to become minority equity shareholder in July, 2009 in order to speed both internal growth and outside acquisitions. AscendTMS).

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Logistics Management

AUGUST 27, 2020

Over the course of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, shippers have been up against myriad challenges and changes, which have subsequently resulted in making changes on the fly, in various ways, in order to be able to adapt to a suddenly changing world, and, more specifically, logistics operations.

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Ship Monk

JANUARY 29, 2024

Within the course of one online chat, an isolated email response, or a single phone call, someone who bought from your ecommerce brand can be influenced whether or not to buy from you again. Remember, when it comes to ecommerce brand orders, there’s no such thing as over communication. No need to imagine if you over communicate.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JULY 30, 2020

KION Group says it has recorded strong order intake in the first half of 2020 thanks to the e-commerce boom, despite a 10% drop in revenue caused by the pandemic and a 50% year-on-year drop in earnings versus 2019 H1. Highlights of the statement are: – Total value of order intake goes up by 4.8 – Revenue decreases by 10.0

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SIPMM Professional Publications

JULY 19, 2019

We may not have flying cars just yet, but Singapore is right on top of technological boom, of course, with robots and electronics taking over tasks like taking orders and serving food. It is 2019, and we are not too far off from experiencing a wacky robotic future predicted by Back to The Future. Futuristic […].

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Ship Monk

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

Learn All about Ecommerce Logistics and Fulfillment Of all the many things you do as an ecommerce brand owner, logistics and fulfillment are often afterthoughts — as in, let’s worry about that after the orders start coming in. The best 3PLs invest in technology and automation that ensure speed and accuracy in filling orders.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JULY 27, 2020

However, large distribution centres, organised and equipped for bulk ‘pallet in, pallet out’ operations are seeing a new problem emerge: how to support smaller, incremental orders in the thousands with the same technology that supports large bulk orders in the dozens or scores daily.

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Ship Monk

MARCH 12, 2024

When it comes to ecommerce orders, that also means experiencing different ways to order products within the same website. Kitting Is the process of combining two or more related items into one ecommerce order bundle. An example of this could be ordering a custom car. People experience products in different ways.

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Ship Monk

APRIL 4, 2023

It’s been a while since you placed your ecommerce order so it seems like it may be time to face facts. In fact, there are many steps you can take before an order ships to make sure it doesn’t go adrift in the cardboard sea. Of course (see what we did there?) Your package is lost. it’s not always on you. Better safe than sorry!

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Find out how your organization can empower customers and ensure a positive experience by integrating your systems and selecting the systems that reduce work, hasten order fulfillment and delivery, and reduce costs. They need to unify the experience, not just unify the operation. Twitter Facebook LinkedIn The post Is Omnichannel Dead?

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