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with a score of 3.62
Shipwire Inc., a SaaS-based platform from Ingram Micro Commerce & Lifecycle Services, offers a comprehensive order management system that connects merchants to an expansive global network of warehouses, parcel carriers, transportation, and ecommerce options. The platform’s logistics infrastructure supports B2B and B2C solutions and enables fast order fulfillment, inventory control and visibility, and optimized supply chain solutions
Found in 247 Companies & Businesses,
with a score of 3.60
Purolator International is a leading U.S. based supply chain logistics solutions provider specializing in the air and ground forwarding of express, freight and parcel shipments, customs brokerage, and fulfillment and delivery services to, from and within North America. We are a subsidiary of Purolator Inc., a leading integrated freight, package and logistics solutions provider in Canada.
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with a score of 3.60
Since 1989, MODE Transportation has been focused on delivering trusted freight solutions across all modes of shipping, including intermodal, truckload, less-than-truckload, air, sea, supply chain and parcel services. With more than 100 operations centers across North America, a diverse network of carriers and a dedicated team of industry experts, we know how to take care of our customers’ complex transportation and logistics needs.
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with a score of 3.52
…stressed over the past year’s peak surcharges. All major parcel carriers have announced or have implemented processes to increase general rate surcharges over the past year. Recently, DHL announced a limit on average parcel weight of roughly 66 pounds. FedEx peak surcharges increased in late May 2021 across several service levels. Read: How FedEx’s New Surcharges Will Affect Your Shipping Costs And USPS has requested an increase in letter postage rates, as well as flats. Now, UPS has followed the trend as well, with new surcharges set to take effect on June 13 for shipments originating from Japan. Read: UPS…
Found in 247 White Papers & Archives,
with a score of 3.47
…logistics providers to rethink the way they orchestrate their parcel shipping operations. When a customer orders a single tube of Chapstick online and expects it to arrive on her doorstep within two days (or less), traditional parcel management approaches must give way to new, tech-enabled processes that enable expedited deliveries. Omni-channel, where customers get a seamless shopping experience whether they’re shopping online, in person, or by phone, is also creating new challenges for companies that must ship via parcel in order to accommodate these demands. The scenario is playing out both on the business to consumer (B2C) and business to…
Found in 247 White Papers & Archives,
with a score of 3.47
…growth can also increase the complexity of cost control. Parcel shipping spend can soar, and retailers may suffer from inefficiencies and poor profit margins. To avoid this problem and maintain control over costs, retailers need to examine the challenges e-commerce can introduce and consider deploying an innovative parcel shipping strategy that includes a Transportation Management System (TMS) for parcel shipping. Last Mile Delivery Last mile delivery is continuously redefining conventional parcel shipping strategies. Now, customers can choose when, where, and how they want their purchases delivered, from a traditional just-leave-on-porch (JLOP) delivery to a parcel locker, in-store, or even in-trunk…
Found in 247 White Papers & Archives,
with a score of 3.44
…ignored in efforts to control costs, bring spend under management and capitalize on economies of scale: parcel shipping. But with advanced data science now readily accessible via Software-as-a-Service, businesses can easily and quickly lower their shipping costs - often radically. New technology, including analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence provides actionable insights that reveal the missed opportunities for savings hidden among the many thousands of parcel shipments made daily in busy warehouses and provides organizations that do business with the largest parcel carriers with an opportunity to secure significant bottom line and top line gains. This newfound ability not only…
Found in 247 White Papers & Archives,
with a score of 3.44
Below you’ll learn the top technology challenges the parcel industry is facing, as well as why multi-party cloud platforms are becoming the first choice for more and more parcel management companies. Parcel Management: An Industry in Transition Today’s parcel management companies must offer their customers a global reach with a personal touch. They need to plan, collaborate, and coordinate with their trading partners on different levels. This requires the ability to create the most optimal plan for customer fulfillment, track shipments across multiple partner networks, and instantly share this data with their customers. However this is usually impossible given the…
Found in 247 Companies & Businesses,
with a score of 3.40
…physical yard space. C3's customers include an impressive roster of Fortune 500 clients in manufacturing, grocery, retail, logistics and parcel post across the world. C3 Reservations – its web-based dock scheduling system – streamlines the scheduling process by improving dock productivity, expanding visibility on scheduled appointments and measuring vendor compliance. C3 Yard – its yard management system (YMS) – empowers yard managers by providing visibility on yard assets, optimizing the flow of trailers from gate to gate and automating yard driver task assignment.
Found in 247 News & Content,
with a score of 3.39
…meet customers’ delivery expectations, and the associated complexity of parcel fulfillment technology has quickly made the home-grown variety an endangered breed for good reason. Aside from just a few Amazon-sized behemoths, even the most accomplished e-commerce merchants choose the simplicity of outsourcing their multi-carrier shipping technology initiatives. They acknowledge the complexity of such mission-critical tasks as streamlining carrier compliance, synthesizing data into cost-saving insights, and verifying addresses, all of which make building home-grown solutions impractical for most merchants. Businesses’ current technology resources, available personnel, and scalability are just a few factors that have almost every merchant scrapping plans to build…
Found in 247 News & Content,
with a score of 3.38
…and the e-commerce supply chain. Other themes address included: parcel rates and pricing, the last-mile logistics market and Peak Season, among others. Rick Watson founded his firm after spending more than 20 years as a technology entrepreneur and operator exclusively in the e-commerce industry with companieslike ChannelAdvisor, BarnesandNoble.com, Merchantry, and Pitney Bowes. Rick's work today is centered on supporting investors and management teams, incubating and growing direct-to-consumer businesses. Most recently, in partnership with WHP Global, Rick was a critical resource in architecting the WHP+ platform, a new turnkey direct to consumer digital e-commerce platform that powers AnneKlein.com and JosephAbboud.com.
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with a score of 3.38
…transportation into yards, warehouses, stores, and beyond. Tracking more than 2 million shipments daily across road, rail, ocean, air, parcel, and courier, and reaching 176 countries, FourKites combines real-time data and powerful machine learning to help companies digitize their end-to-end supply chains. More than 500 of the world’s most recognized brands - including 9 of the top-10 CPG and 18 of the top-20 food and beverage companies - trust FourKites to transform their business and create more agile, efficient, and sustainable supply chains. To learn more, visit www.fourkites.com.
Found in 247 Companies & Businesses,
with a score of 3.36
Falvey Shippers Insurance, a division of Falvey Cargo Underwriting, Ltd., is a fully automated parcel and freight insurance platform specializing in high volume transaction-based programs. Established in 2008, our mission is to provide flexible coverage, automated delivery options and extraordinary customer service. Building upon a proven model developed over the years, Falvey Shippers is recognized as a market leader for claims handling and full service integration. Request A Quote
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with a score of 3.36
In spite of plummeting oil prices, parcel rates are up to their highest levels ever in 2015 as evidenced by parcel giants UPS and FedEx recently rolling out GRIs (general rate increases) that took effect earlier this year along with the changes to its dimensional pricing rates, fuel surcharges are also on the rise for the companies comprising this parcel duopoly. These changes come at a time when oil and fuel prices continue steady declines. FedEx Announcement: Fuel Surcharge FedEx recently issued changes to the tables it uses to fuel surcharges for its FedEx Express, FedEx Ground, and FedEx Freight…
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with a score of 3.31
…noted that by 2027, one out of every three parcels transported by air will stem from online purchases, marking a notable increase from the current rate of one out of five. MORE AIR CARGO STORIES: Retailers Pivot Supply Chain Strategy, Seek Red Sea Alternatives | Revenues Fall at UPS Majeres underscored that in 2022, the volume of parcels, totaling 170 billion, was four times higher than in 2014. By 2027, this figure is projected to escalate to 256 billion, representing a 50% growth from 2022 levels. “This means we have a tsunami of new parcels to process,” Majerus warned. “When…