Why Single-Source Shipping is Eating Away at Your Bottomline

Want to balance speed with accuracy on shipping? Here’s what you need to know about navigating carrier complexity as a scaling company to ensure you are getting the best rates and service level to meet your customers’ shipping expectations.

Fulfillment Challenges of a Growing & Scaling Company

As a company grows and scales, the high-level fulfillment process does not change– receive, putaway, order, pick, pack, ship–but the complexity and number of decisions that need to be made in each step increase exponentially, and most companies never reevaluate their processes despite doubling or tripling revenue.

Companies using traditional warehouse and fulfillment processes do one of two things to manage exponentially increasing complex decisions in the warehouse: (1) they use inflexible static logic or (2) unscalable manual decisions by workers. This dynamic plays out across the whole enterprise, but in this paper, we’ll focus on the static logic, manual decision conundrum as it relates to shipping carrier selection. We will also share how you can overcome this conundrum and ensure you choose the best service level to meet customers’ expectations by not just finding the lowest rate.

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