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How are warehouses finally winning ever-increasing shipping charges?

Curious to know how warehouses combat ever-increasing shipping charges?
Right now, one-fourth of the population has relied on eCommerce to fulfill their shopping needs because they offer prompt delivery service. But this action cannot be a “nice to have” opportunity for the logistics and fulfillment centers as they need to rush as fast as possible to deliver products to the customer’s doorstep. Moreover, the logistics and fulfillment centers face various shipping chargeback fluctuations in another case. So, understanding this, several eCommerce firms have begun to take advantage of new technologies like cubing and weighing systems to calibrate various size parcels’ dimensional and weight information.
What do you think you’ll take away from this episode?
This logistics insight video series offers how warehouses can utilize new technologies to fight dimensional weight (DIM) pricing.
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Podcast Transcript:
There are many different picking strategies by which you can optimize your warehouse.
But personally, I prefer the label-pick and send method.
So, any good warehouse management system worth it’s salt nowadays has an in-built cartonization function.

It is good practice as it reduces the distance covered in the warehouse when picking.

This feature helps you identify the optimal package be it a box or an envelope for every order.

This means the items need to be handled only once because the trolley is setup before picking.

It can be prepared with the appropriate packaging, where each is already labelled with the details of the recipient.

Then, during the picking process, each order is packed directly into its packaging.

This way, the goods are only handled once, which saves time and effort.

It also reduces time spent moving around the warehouse as each bin location only needs to be visited once before moving on to the next one.

It is far more efficient than the batch and discrete picking techniques where you pick all the orders first, then have to re-sort them before they can be packed appropriately.

This is Alphonse, the product manager of VisAI Labs and this is the logistics insight for today.

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