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Optimize Cartonization with Shipium's Packaging Planner API
Packaging is a critical aspect of your fulfillment process, impacting operational efficiency, profitability, and customer satisfaction. But getting packaging right is easier said than done — vast (and constantly growing) product catalogs, disparate systems, and massive scale all make it difficult to optimize.
How to Choose the Best Ecommerce Shipping Solution
In the online retail landscape, the solution you implement to manage shipping is critical to maintaining a competitive edge. Many businesses have entered the ecommerce space using legacy shipping systems that hinder rather than facilitate growth as consumer habits and expectations evolve. The consequences? Frustrated customers and excessive costs. But the right solution can reduce expenses, optimize performance, and scale effortlessly to meet growing demands. Let's explore the top factors to consider as you search for the best ecommerce shipping solution for your business.
Complete Ecommerce Supply Chain Guide
Complete Ecommerce Supply Chain Guide In this guide you’re going to learn how to structure a modern ecommerce supply chain with a focus on the customer. We wrote it in digestible chunks making it easy to see how it all connects. Textbooks are for MBA courses and five-paragraph blog posts aren’t useful. Instead, we thread the needle with comprehensive yet condensed insight you won’t want to miss.
Mike Edwards
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August 16, 2024
How SAP EWM Optimizes Your Supply Chain
For most ecommerce businesses, supply chain management — the process that oversees a product’s journey from production to customer — is one of their most critical operational components. The SAP Extended Warehouse Management (SAP EWM) system handles order fulfillment, which is an important step in this process. But is your system correctly configured to improve your overall logistics network?
How Shipium Helps You Adapt to Macro-Environmental Changes
Last Thursday, Pitney Bowes announced that its ecommerce logistics unit will be shutting down, which means that shippers who rely on its parcel delivery services will need to make major operational adjustments in the coming weeks.
Profitable Delivery Promises Using Transit Data | Shipium
Most digital customer experience leaders already know that offering a competitive delivery promise is a proven way to increase cart conversion and average order value (AOV). But — it’s critical that your shipping operations teams can keep your promise at a reasonable cost for the business. Too often, digital experience teams and shipping ops teams are disconnected, especially when it comes to the sharing of important data that can inform a more accurate delivery promise.
Closed-Loop Parcel: The Future of Shipping
The world of parcel shipping has changed dramatically in recent years. Network complexity and customer expectations are both higher than ever. Amazon Prime has raised the bar for performance across the board, to the point that today’s customers now expect fast, low-cost, transparent shipping options. In fact, this has become such a deeply ingrained preference that shipping is now the 2nd-greatest driver of ecommerce growth, behind only price.
Shipium Recognized in the 2024 Gartner® Market Guide™
This week Gartner just released their 2024 Market Guide for Multi-Carrier Parcel Management Solutions. The Market Guide provides an overview of market trends and industry vendors. Our platform was recognized with a focus on our product Carrier Selection which handles rate shopping, label management, shipping operations, and several other features covered in the guide.
Ecosystems are the Future of Supply Chain Technology
We returned from three conferences in two weeks with an enthused perspective about the future of supply chain technology.
How Shipium's Data Modeling Powers Efficient Operations
To truly modernize shipping operations and optimize for costs and performance, you need to look at all available data. This means both gaining leverage over your own data (historical transit times, carrier contracts & cost structures etc.) as well as considering outside data that impacts your network (weather patterns, unexpected carrier changes, macroeconomic factors like fuel prices.)
