Shipping Feature: Delivering a Profit
Ship-from-store allows brick-and-mortar retailers to better compete with online-only brands. Store locations become mini distribution centers, using their own inventory to fulfill online orders placed by customers nearby rather than have the items come from a distant warehouse.
Packaging
With delivery charges now based on package volume, product packaging has become critical. Inefficient packaging leads to higher transportation and material costs, and contributes to the mitigation of carrier discounts due to oversize charges and dimensional weight adjustments. Simply put, inefficient packaging raises your cost profile. Therefore, design boxes that tightly configure to product with little fill.
Rob Martinez is the CEO of Shipware LLC, a professional services firm that transforms businesses through intelligent distribution solutions and strategies. Rob has helped some of the world’s most recognizable brands reduce parcel shipping costs an average of 25 percent through contract negotiations, rate benchmarking, modal optimization, invoice audit and other savings vehicles. A cum laude graduate of UCLA, Rob has 20 years of transportation industry experience, including executive positions at DHL and Stamps.com, in addition to his work as an outside consultant since 2001.
