9 Ways to Reduce the Costs of Shipping & Warehouse Operations

Combine Your Packing and Shipping Stations

Over 70% of high volume shippers still use separate packing and shipping stations in their warehouses. Much of this is due to warehouse Operations staff thinking that a free shipping system provided by a carrier has no cost. The reality is that they couldn’t be more wrong.

Free carrier systems, and older legacy shipping systems, have impacted many warehouses by forcing them into using a two-step packing and shipping process.

First, orders are packed by a worker at a packing station where a packing list and license plate labels are attached to the boxes. The boxes are then sent to a shipping station. Second, when the boxes reach the shipping station, another worker enters a field value or scans a barcode for the order into the shipping software to ship the boxes and print the shipping labels.

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