Shippers! It is time to rethink your strategy on packaging
The Problem: Shipping too much air Air is the number one item shipped in the U.S. and by a staggering number. For e-commerce shipments, the amount of air in packages is OVER 50%. Quit reading if you can answer these questions. The Solution: Packaging & Data Packaging and data can have a profound and everlasting … Continue reading “Shippers! It is time to rethink your strategy on packaging”
New and Permanent Ways to Reduce Shipping Costs
Start Saving Now I. Reduce air in your packages: II. Get and keep deadly accurate package dimensions and weights on all your orders: Customer Experience Greater sustainability, smaller packs, less fillers, speed of delivery, and lower shipping costs will drive a better customer experience. https://iqpackglobal.com/
HOW YOU CAN WIN BIG IN THE
DIMENSIONALIZATION OF FREIGHT
Get & Maintain Accurate Package Dimensions for Parcel & LTL Start Saving Now Shipping Charge Corrections. Carriers use carrots & sticks. They will fine you if the pack sizes on your manifest are not accurate. It is a capacity constraint for carriers and bad data leads to bad planning. These penalty charges could be 10% … Continue reading “HOW YOU CAN WIN BIG IN THE
DIMENSIONALIZATION OF FREIGHT”
Packaging Data Is the Final Frontier In Managing Freight Cost
There are a LOT of errors in the packaging process driving massive shipping cost. IF you can harness good data, make it understandable and execute to it, those savings can be yours. For the most part, ecom packaging is still being done the same way as it was in the 1990s. Orders are routed to … Continue reading “Packaging Data Is the Final Frontier In Managing Freight Cost”
Why Zero-Air Packaging is a Megatrend
UPS/FXG are at capacity – For decades, the two major carriers have been scrambling to modernize outdated sortation hubs with ultra-high-speed sorters and automated induction systems. After huge investments in increasing capacity, the results have been disappointing. Sorting packages with less human intervention has saved labor and increased accuracy, but systems are operating at half … Continue reading “Why Zero-Air Packaging is a Megatrend”
Why You May Need a Dimensionalization Strategy
PARCEL FREIGHT CARRIERS, LIKE UPS AND FEDEX, may price their product by the pound, but they are charging you based on cubic volume. The “billed weight” on your invoice has little to do with weight and everything to do with cubes. The transportation trade journals refer to this as the “dimensionalization” of freight. It is … Continue reading “Why You May Need a Dimensionalization Strategy”
Mission Critical Packaging Systems
THREE MEGATRENDS FOR TECHNOLOGY SERVICE PARTS DISTRIBUTION IN 2022: ZERO-AIR IS THE NEW PACKAGING STANDARD. FedEx and UPS will continue to use confiscatory penalty costs to punish their largest shippers for failing to right-size packaging. Parcel carriers measure their capacity in cubic volume so incentivizing smaller packages increases their shipping capacity without deploying capital. PETRO-BASED … Continue reading “Mission Critical Packaging Systems”
Item Master Accuracy is Key to Reducing Shipping Costs
A SOLID DIMENSIONALIZATION STRATEGY BEGINS WITH THE ITEM MASTER. Size and weight data in the item master is notoriously unreliable because manufacturers rarely have a process for synthesizing the ever-changing sizes and weights of products. Although setting up an item master initially might be feasible, maintaining the accuracy can be virtually impossible, and it is … Continue reading “Item Master Accuracy is Key to Reducing Shipping Costs”
Early vs. Late Decision Models: Product Dimensioning for On-Demand, Zero-Air Packaging Systems
Knowing the dimensions of primary packaging, and the dimensions of unboxed products, is necessary for making Zero-Air shipping containers with on-demand packaging technologies. There are two models, within the WMS/ERP environment for knowing the dimensions – Early model and Late model. An Early model uses volumetric data stored in the item master for each product. … Continue reading “Early vs. Late Decision Models: Product Dimensioning for On-Demand, Zero-Air Packaging Systems”
Data Fallacies in Measuring Defect Rates Across Periods
Estimated Required Reading Time: 10 minutes In distribution operations defect rates on products that have been shipped to customers are measured as a ratio of defects divided by total products shipped, to normalize for shipping volume. One common method for measuring defect rates is to divide the defects reported in a period by the number … Continue reading “Data Fallacies in Measuring Defect Rates Across Periods”
