The COVID-19 crisis has seen many businesses struggle with employees suddenly making the transition to working from home. Instead of managing 4 offices, they are now managing 4,000. Living in a digital age has made remote working easier, but some work, like shipping and mailing, can’t be digitized.
Under normal conditions, it’s the mail centers and shipping departments that centralize the management of outbound material. They enforce corporate policies about who is authorized to send what to whom and how. They automate processes, apply business rules to carrier service selections, and they keep track of expenses by cost center.
But these aren’t normal conditions, even though a new normal may be emerging. One without the ability to maintain centralized mailing and shipping control over a decentralized home office working environment.
Working from home and lacking a centralized mailroom to manage outbound processes, employees not well-versed in logistics are forced to improvise when sending a contract to a customer, a sample to a prospect, or material to other employees. Left on their own to manage even routine shipments, employees can waste time and money while businesses quickly lose enterprise visibility and control over expenditures and policies.
Download the eBook, “Business Continuity in the Age of COVID-19 Requires an Enterprise Approach to Ship from Home Office Solutions,” to learn how incorporating a cloud-based multi-carrier management solution (MCMS) provides businesses with a way to maintain centralized control while giving their employees the tools they need to ship efficiently, cost-effectively, and safely from their home offices.
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