3 Ways Robotic Package Sortation Reduces Shipping Costs

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Online shopping is booming across every retail category, and consumers want their online purchases to arrive quickly without being expected to pay a premium for it.

This means retailers and 3PLs need to ramp up fulfillment operations to process higher volumes of online orders while dealing with labor availability challenges and rising shipping costs.

Due to the increased labor required, eCommerce fulfillment operations typically do not sort and bag small parcels prior to carrier handoff.

This results in human operators handling each individual item to then place on trucks, which requires a lot of labor and can lead to late deliveries, damaged goods, or lost packages.

Companies of all sizes can take advantage of the automation technology that major parcel and package carriers like FedEx Ground use within their own networks.

With robotic product sortation systems, all eCommerce fulfillment operations can leverage cost-effective, efficient, and automated sorting for packaged customer orders - without incurring excessive shipping costs or adding more headcount to an already limited workforce.

Sorting and containerizing eCommerce packages are not something that consumers will ever see or know about - nor should they.

For many businesses, not only does robotic automation help speed up delivery times, but pre-sorting packages can also improve customer satisfaction and loyalty.

Retailers and 3PLs can improve customer service by accelerating package delivery lessening the chances of packages getting lost in transit, and reducing the chances of packages being damaged as they are knocked around in the back of a trailer. And that ultimately means consumers get their goods faster.

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