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Kris Gösser Kris Gösser / August 21, 2024 / Product

How to Choose the Best Ecommerce Shipping Solution

In the online retail landscape, the solution you implement to manage shipping is critical to maintaining a competitive edge. Many businesses have entered the ecommerce space using legacy shipping systems that hinder rather than facilitate growth as consumer habits and expectations evolve. The consequences? Frustrated customers and excessive costs. But the right solution can reduce expenses, optimize performance, and scale effortlessly to meet growing demands. Let's explore the top factors to consider as you search for the best ecommerce shipping solution for your business.
Anurag Allena Anurag Allena / August 12, 2024 / Product

How Shipium Helps You Adapt to Macro-Environmental Changes

Last Thursday, Pitney Bowes announced that its ecommerce logistics unit will be shutting down, which means that shippers who rely on its parcel delivery services will need to make major operational adjustments in the coming weeks.
Anurag Allena Anurag Allena / June 17, 2024 / Product

Profitable Delivery Promises Using Transit Data | Shipium

Most digital customer experience leaders already know that offering a competitive delivery promise is a proven way to increase cart conversion and average order value (AOV). But — it’s critical that your shipping operations teams can keep your promise at a reasonable cost for the business. Too often, digital experience teams and shipping ops teams are disconnected, especially when it comes to the sharing of important data that can inform a more accurate delivery promise.
Anurag Allena Anurag Allena / May 8, 2024 / Product

How Shipium's Data Modeling Powers Efficient Operations

To truly modernize shipping operations and optimize for costs and performance, you need to look at all available data. This means both gaining leverage over your own data (historical transit times, carrier contracts & cost structures etc.) as well as considering outside data that impacts your network (weather patterns, unexpected carrier changes, macroeconomic factors like fuel prices.)
Anurag Allena Anurag Allena / April 12, 2024 / Product

Make Prime-Like Delivery Promise Part of Your Strategy

As a retailer, it’s probably no secret to you that online shopping is a cornerstone of your digital customer experience strategy. In fact, you’ve probably already invested significant time and money to improve your brand’s shopping experience (streamlined website, personalized offers and product recommendations etc.) However, like most retailers or brands, you’re likely also facing a broader problem — customers’ expectations for the shipping experience have evolved much faster than your technology and strategy.
Anurag Allena Anurag Allena / April 2, 2024 / Product

Use Predictive Analytics for Smarter Supply Chain Decisions

Your shipping network generates a wealth of data that can be used to de-risk process decisions. Most organizations are already making use of detailed reporting and analytics to understand historical performance and costs — but in the age of predictive analytics, that’s not enough to keep operations on par with more technologically advanced competitors.
Anurag Allena Anurag Allena / March 25, 2024 / Product

Replace Legacy Logistics Software for a Better Supply Chain

Companies like Amazon couldn’t have made fast, low-cost shipping the industry standard without rethinking the technology they used to power operations. The limitations of incumbent on-premise software were getting in the way of the ability to accurately analyze patterns, shop for rates, optimize packaging and much more.
Anurag Allena Anurag Allena / March 15, 2024 / Product

Lower Shipping Costs with Economy Methods | Shipium

Efficient and cost-effective shipping methods like UPS Mail Innovations, FedEx SmartPost / Ground Economy, and DHL Ecommerce enable you to diversify shipping options for customers, increase margins or pass savings on to customers, improve the sustainability of shipping operations, and more. Here’s the problem: because of the absence of SLAs and general performance unpredictability, shippers don’t leverage these options as often as they could (or should).
Kris Gösser Kris Gösser / March 11, 2024 / Product

Preventing URSA Expirations for FedEx Ship Manager | Shipium

URSA tables expiring for FedEx Ship Manager is a regularly occurring problem across legacy shipping technology, leaving FedEx customers frustrated at the inability to use the quality carrier services they depend on. The fault is on the legacy vendor and their support team’s ability to keep technology up to date, and not FedEx or its customers.
Ferhana Haider Ferhana Haider / December 8, 2023 / Product

Taking on the burden of surcharge management

It’s that magical time of year again when most of us are preparing for the holidays, the new year with identifying new resolutions, and ensuring our best that we’re ready to start off the new year strong and prepared for whatever may come our way. Some are also preparing for holiday breaks yet only after situating what’s needed for the new year. Even with the most dedicated intentions, we can’t be completely prepared as we all learned from COVID-19. And that’s okay as we can’t control everything yet we can plan and implement preparations to help us do our best. In the shipping industry, the new year reminds us of contract rate renewals with new rates for shipments and surcharges. An opportunity to negotiate better rates for our businesses and build relationships that will allow us to partner well as we move through the new year together.