Three pick and pack options that can provide an exceptional experience for your customers

Making customers is hard, and expensive. Make sure you spend some of that time and effort on the much more cost effective task of keeping your customers, and you;ll see the benefits rapidly.
1. Ensure accurate orders by adding multiple checkpoints to your pick and pack process

Customers can

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Does your ecommerce storage and distribution centre require a management system?

Ecommerce has always been a time-sensitive world, and time to market is one of the most important metrics to the success of any ecommerce merchant. As the pressure for speed mounts, the performance and flow-through of your storage and distribution centre also increases. Many see the adoption of

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What place is there for robots, drones, and various other automata in the modern warehousing and distribution centre?

Everyone paid attention, at least for a few moments, when Amazon announced its ‘Amazon Prime Air’ program that was, supposedly, to deliver goods directly from the warehousing and distribution centre to the customer’s doorstep. Most of us said “Surely not. The technology isn’t ready,

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The warehousing and distribution industry is showing more interest in automation than ever

Manufacturing activity continues to improve year on year, and warehousing activity has risen with it. While warehousing capacity is growing, the amount of actual space dedicated to warehousing, processing and fulfilment has not grown as quickly. Much of this is down to ‘doing more with

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Three ways to reduce your LTL freight costs

Logistics professionals all across the UK are finding themselves in the same boat: Tasked by senior management with reducing transport costs, while your carriers demand higher rates. As capacity becomes tighter and those higher rates become harder to deny, our jobs really start to become

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The European Parliament has approved new regulations on large commercial lorry construction by a large majority, but what will the mean to the UK?

Just at the moment, not a great deal, but in five to seven years it could mean everything.
When will the new EU regulations be enforced?
The EU Parliament wants these regulations, which are designed to improve safety and fuel efficiency of the vehicles, to be mandatory across the EU within the

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Promising Outlook for the UK Warehousing and Logistics Industry

2014 is projected to be a good year for UK manufacturing with growth forecasted at 2.7% according to www.eef.org.uk, reflecting an upturn in the economy as a whole.
This confident outlook is due to increased demand from domestic and overseas markets, capital expenditure and employee

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How to make the most of your relationship with 3PLs

Almost every business touches upon an outsourced logistics company in some way. Either they use a 3PL themselves, or their customers or suppliers do. From single-package delivery to truckload carriage to warehousing services, few businesses these days can handle everything in-house. Many have

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How omni-channel marketing is changing warehouse management

Warehouse management systems are now called upon to perform omni-channel fulfilment functions regularly by distributors, retailers and even manufacturers. As new demands are placed on the software, it has developed new capabilities to match.

WMSs (warehouse management systems) were a fairly

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LTL (Less Than Truckload) shipping and freight forwarding is poised to be a major factor in warehousing, distribution and fulfilment in the next few years.

The less than truckload logistics market is becoming big business, as new systems and changes in management make for new efficiencies

It takes a special approach to take advantage of the benefits of LTL shipping on a large scale, though, and both shippers and carriers need to build new kinds

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The hazards of optimizing your pick and pack operations for omnichannel retail

You may need an array of disparate fulfilment channels to serve many customer purchasing channels well.
1) The pressures omnichannel marketing can put on your pick and pack operations
Ecommerce and multi-channel retailers are feeling pressure to increase revenues in new and different ways,

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Warehousing and Distribution Roundup

From 2015 businesses in England will be required to separate out common recyclables rather than sending to landfill. Paper and card, plastics, metals and glass are the waste items being targeting first. From April 2014 the landfill tax rose to £80 per tonne so businesses should already being

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Potential problems in the supply chain – 5 things to watch out for

Companies involved in the production and sale of goods will have well established supply chains, possibly unchanged for a number of years. The ideology of “if it isn’t broke, don’t fix it” often applies here. It is, though, necessary to review and sometimes change things if you want to

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How automation is changing warehouse management

Last week DMG Freight Services talked about how omni-channel marketing and fulfilment has changed warehouse management systems and strategy. On a related note, the growing use of automation has had its own impact. Of course, the two trends are related. Much of the increase in automation is

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10 ways to reduce your pick and pack and fulfilment costs

Order fulfilment and pick and pack aren’t the most glamorous topics, but handling them correctly can substantially reduce your overall costs, and mean more profits at the end of the year.

DMG Freight Services offers some of the lowest prices for warehousing, pick and pack and distribution

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