10 Proven Strategies To Reduce Shipping Costs As we’re sure you’re realizing, shipping isn’t cheap. In fact, all major carriers raise their shipping rates every single year. With high demand growing in ecommerce sectors, it often leads to a shortage of everything; warehouses and truck drivers particularly. Thanks to companies like Amazon, small business shipping…
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Poly mailers continue to gain popularity for shipping in the ecommerce industry. Also referred to by bubble mailers, mailing bags, poly bubble mailers, poly bags, and plastic bags, they have gained a lot of popularity over the years as it pertains to ecommerce shipping. Make no mistake about it, when it comes to shipping costs, you…
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Order Tracking Is Mandatory For Your Company Order tracking is a key feature that every business should be offering to customers. Having the ability to track your orders in real-time is vital to all companies. Without order tracking, you’ll never be able to make the important decisions you need or make adjustments as seen fit…
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We find a lot of business owners and Shopify merchants searching for Shopify apps for fulfillment. While some fulfillment companies could have a Shopify app, many other fulfillment companies don’t require you to have a Shopify fulfillment app. For our clients here at Thill, a Shopify app for order fulfillment is not required. Rather, our…
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While the terms fulfillment and warehouse are often used in conjunction to refer to the same thing, the two can mean totally different things. While both are often large buildings that are used to hold inventory for companies, the uses and services offered at each can differ a lot. If you’ve been thinking about using…
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Product returns will always be an important key process for ecommerce and retail operations. Product returns are a retail term used to describe when a customer returns a product they purchased. Product returns are part of the order fulfillment. If you don’t have a system in place for product returns, it can be a big black…
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When it comes to choosing the right fulfillment partner, there’s a lot to consider in order to find the right partner. Fulfillment services can be exactly what your company needs to reach that next level, reach that next milestone. Equally, the wrong choice could set your business back years, you don’t want that. How can…
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What Is Supply Chain Management? Supply Chain Management (SCM) refers to all the different activities you’re going to need to plan, control and execute the complete journey of a product, this includes purchasing raw materials, production, and the distribution that includes the customer receiving an order – the end goal of getting it done in…
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When it comes to ecommerce warehousing and order distribution, Thill Incorporated is one of the top fulfillment companies in the United States. Thill has worked for hundreds of ecommerce merchants across the U.S., helping them grow their business and online presence in the country. While we’re often asked a wide range of questions about fulfillment…
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Ecommerce 101, in this guide, we’re discussing what’s working in ecommerce at the moment, where the opportunities and trends are, as well as the most important steps for new ecommerce merchants to get running their stores online. When it comes to e-commerce, the first thing that comes to my mind is “growth.” Would that be…
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