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Anurag Allena Anurag Allena / September 26, 2024 / Product

How to Reduce Shipping Costs Early in the Parcel Fulfillment Process with Shipium

Enterprise shippers who are thinking about how to reduce shipping costs face an increasingly uphill battle. Between the need for faster deliveries, fluctuating carrier costs, and unprecedented network complexity, keeping costs down is much easier said than done.
Anurag Allena Anurag Allena / August 23, 2024 / Product

Optimize Cartonization with Shipium's Packaging Planner API

Packaging is a critical aspect of your fulfillment process, impacting operational efficiency, profitability, and customer satisfaction. But getting packaging right is easier said than done — vast (and constantly growing) product catalogs, disparate systems, and massive scale all make it difficult to optimize.
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 shipping solution for ecommerce 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

Why You Should Leverage Predictive Analytics for Supply Chain Decision-Making

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

How Choosing an Economy Shipping Method can Reduce Costs

Efficient and cost-effective shipping methods like UPS Mail Innovations, FedEx Ground Economy, and DHL Ecommerce enable you to diversify shipping options, increase margins or pass savings on to customers, improve the sustainability of shipping operations, and more.