Logistics > Parcel & Express | SupplyChainBrain

Parcel & Express: Page 14

Mastering Parcel Delivery to Drive E-Commerce Profitability in 2024

Given the starring role that the delivery experience plays in customer satisfaction and brand loyalty, retailers must be prepared in 2024.

Don’t Let Your Transportation Data Go to Waste

While a TMS can provide access to operational and market data, effectively utilizing that information to optimize supply chain operations goes beyond simply implementing the right technology.

Emerging Trends and Innovations in Logistics and Supply Chain Management

By staying current with the industry’s ever-evolving trends and technologies, businesses can remain competitive and improve their efficiency and effectiveness — while delivering an exceptional customer experience.

Delta Cargo Launches E-Commerce Solution DeliverDirect

The new service is aimed at e-commerce retailers seeking to optimize their direct-to-consumer shipping solutions.

Photo: iStock.com/Sjo

Michigan Pilots Roadway that Charges EVs as They Drive

The quarter-mile segment of 14th Street will be used to test and perfect the technology ahead of making it available to the public within a few years.

Image: iStock.com/Chesky_W

Five Criteria for Choosing Your Next E-Commerce Delivery Partner

This guide helps you navigate the complexities of the choice, ensuring that your chosen partner not only aligns with your brand's goals, but also elevates your customers' experience.

Photo: Veho

Delivery Area Surcharges and Other Parcel Rate Hikes to Watch Out for in 2024

With the new year well underway, shippers can shift their attention to the general rate increases levied by parcel carriers, and focus on mitigating their impact on shipping costs.

Photo: iStock.com/tiero

Remember the Mall? Now, it’s a Fulfillment Center, and More

What’s particularly attractive about shopping malls is that they offer the possibility of creating a hybrid facility that combines logistics and fulfillment activities with in-person activities for shoppers.

They could be returning purchases, too. Photo: iStock.com/wsfurlan

‘Windshipped’ Offers a Vision of an Alternative to Commercial Trucking in Hudson Valley

John Bowermaster’s movie makes a compelling argument for figuring out how to send non-perishable goods by wind and water.

Schooner Apollonia sails across New York Harbor. Photo: Center for Post Carbon Logistics

How Supply Chain Experts Said They Were Handling the Peak Season Rush

2023’s peak season will have seen supply chain professionals both relying on tried-and-true peak season strategies and testing next-gen solutions.

Photo: iStock.com/gpointstudio

Raised Consumer Expectations Puts a Strain on Worker Safety

While retailers and shippers may balk at the prospect of altering the functional status quo, making concrete changes to protect workers will pay dividends in the long run.

Photo: iStock.com/SARINYAPINNGAM

Seizing the Skies: How Airlines Can Reclaim Parcel Market Dominance

According to IATA, air cargo ships 35% of the world’s trade value, so it’s clear that a continued increase in retail demand will translate directly to an increase in airfreight.

Photo: iStock.com/Fahroni

Page 14 of 97

Featured Product

Photo: iStock/Anastasiia Yanishevska

How a Leading U.S. Floral Distribution Company Reduced Warehouse Labor Costs by 45% with RFID

Recycled Tagging Fasteners: Small Changes Make a Big Impact

Mobile geolocation service for track delivery, cargo shipment and freight transportation. Logistic Import Export business (Elements of this image furnished by NASA)

Enhancing High-Value Electronics Shipment Security with Tive's Real-Time Tracking

Franchise business e-commerce online e-marketplace or digital marketing branch expansion for growth or use technology to analyze product consumer data website management plan for sale service concept.

Moving Robots Site-to-Site