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5 Product Packaging Mistakes That Could Cost You Customers!

Supply Chain Game Changer

How Australia is Dealing with Packaging and Waste! Product packaging mistakes article and permission to publish here provided by Claire Glassman. While that’s mostly harmless, the joke will be far less funny when it’s your products or packaging that others start making fun of. What Are The Benefits Of Packaging?

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How & Why You Should Choose Eco-Friendly Packaging for Ecommerce Orders

ShipBob

When it comes to understanding how customers interact with ecommerce brands, packaging is by far one of the most ubiquitous elements. This is great for business, but with all of this spending online comes another cost: more packaging waste, and therefore a growing environmental impact. What is eco-friendly packaging?

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Amazon’s Freight (Train) Is Coming

GlobalTranz

Editor’s Note: This article is from Steve Bettwy , Vice President – Quality and Business Continuity, Operational Excellence, and Continuous Improvement at Direct Supply. Amazon announced that it shipped 5 billion items through Prime alone in 2017, and some analysts estimate it will ship over 4 billion packages in 2018.

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How To Jump

Supply Chain Shaman

Last week, I published an article on outside-in planning. The article introduced the concept of self-service planning and challenged companies to rethink the concepts of supply chain planning. Demand latency is the time to translate the purchase in the channel to an order.) His bullwhip factor is.45. in inventory value.

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Putting the Planet First: Bringing Sustainability To The Last-Mile With Logistics Technology

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Parallelly, expectations around the overall purchasing experience have also grown steeper. For retailers or e-commerce sellers, it means promoting sustainably manufactured products and using recyclable materials for packaging and deliveries. Sales in the e-commerce sector globally, grew to $4.9 trillion in 2021, up from $4.2

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2018: What Will It Look Like?

Supply Chain Insights

I hate prediction articles. For the purposes of clarity, in this article, the term digital supply chain is the transformation of the atoms and electrons within the supply chain to unleash new levels of value. Here are my predictions for 2018: Supply Chain Excellence as We Know It Is Redefined. I am not sure why.

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How to Prevent Shipping Damage! (Infographic)

Supply Chain Game Changer

Shipping Damage article and permission to publish here provided by excelsior.ph. Your package must be able to: Keep the product safe despite any changes in the environment, such as temperature, humidity, etc. Survive a four-foot drop (the most common height that package usually gets when dropping in transport). Subscribe Here!