What drives parcel shipping to become worthy of attention for e-commerce and logistics firms?
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Today, your consumers have access to a plethora of purchasing channels through which they may acquire items similar to yours, some of which provide a variety of delivery choices – frequently for free.
This implies that there is no time to waste.
You must now endeavour to reduce the “stuff” that stands between your customers and their purchases and provide consistent buyer experiences.
You can provide superior customer experiences and develop a parcel shipping ecosystem that encourages productivity and empowers your internal teams and carriers to collaborate with the proper parcel shipping strategy and technology.
This way, you’ll be able to deliver better, cheaper, and faster for your customers.
But how can you ensure parcel shipping? For this, Let’s take a look at the top three ingredients for successful parcel delivery.
Number 1: Integrations and Professional Services
Despite the remarkable capabilities of most parcel shipping technology solutions, how effectively the technology interacts with your transport systems, as well as your ERP and WMS, will be essential to your success.
You’ll need a solution provider with extensive integration experience across a large network of global carriers as well as world-leading enterprise, e-commerce, and supply chain software suppliers for this.
You also need a Professional Services team capable of evolving your technology as your shipping strategy becomes intricate.
Number 2: Technology
Your distribution scenarios will most likely get more complex as your company grows.
From carrier services acquisition through carrier invoice reconciliation and reporting, every stage of the process may be streamlined using technology.
Number 3: Business Intelligence
The production, dissemination, and management of information are all essential aspects of attaining cost-effective parcel transportation.
Whilst the phrase “information” is somewhat ambiguous, it encompasses everything from delivery event notifications and carrier performance scorecards to rate simulations, cost accounting, and more.
With a Business Intelligence platform, parcel shipping technology will understand how factors like distance, delivery speed, and package size affect the transportation carrier landscape and analyse your shipping data in real-time to visualise how and where changes should be made to yield greater returns.
This is Alphonse, the Product Manager of VisAI Labs, And that’s the logistics insight for today.
