Cutting shipping costs: 5 game-changing tactics
The expectation of free shipping by online shoppers has created the need for retailers to find more cost-effective shipping methods. This includes changing packaging, negotiating with shipping carriers, changing shipping schedules, or outsourcing fulfilment. But during the pandemic and subsequent supply-chain crisis, retailers learned anew just how expensive it can be to offer free shipping. […]
Sorting out the awkward question of capacity
How can parcel carriers expand capacity when challenged by dwindling labour resources, rising costs and an aging estate of ‘awkward’, regional depots ill-suited to conventional automation? Darcy de Thierry, Managing Director of Ferag UK sets out a way forward… There seems no limit to the growth of packet and parcel traffic. Although, according to the […]
REPORT: Fixing failed deliveries, make faulty fulfilment a thing of the past
In its latest report, loqate takes a deep dive to understand the true business cost of faulty fulfilment and discover the simple steps to help stamp out failed deliveries for good…. The Covid-19 pandemic has prompted a surge in consumers buying products and services online, accelerating a trend that was already well underway. As a […]
Record online spending will create the ‘Mount Everest of Christmas peaks’
Online retailers and couriers are experiencing record peak volumes and many are stretched to full capacity. That’s according to ParcelHero, which says the worst is yet to come as Christmas 2020 could be 50% busier than last year – the firm is urging retailers to work closely with their delivery partners, otherwise a looming driver […]
Top five trends influencing ecommerce fulfilment
Johannes Panzer, Head of Industry Solutions, Ecommerce, Descartes As ecommerce evolves, customer expectations to get what they want — when, where, and how they want it — will only continue to intensify and further challenge organisations in 2020 and beyond. The times when search and price were the only criteria for purchasing decisions are gone, and […]
Millennials move Magway over the £1 million crowdfunding mark
Magway a British engineering start-up which plans to revolutionise the UK’s freight delivery market with its sustainable network of underground pipes, has exceeded its initial £750,000 crowdfunding target. Magway has smashed through the £1 million mark and has to date attracted over 1,700 investors willing to back the UK’s first underground ecommerce delivery network. Almost […]
