John Lindberg
EFULFILLMENT SERVICE INC
Member Since: October 06, 2008
Location: Traverse City, MI 49686
Interests: Order fulfillment
Company: http://www.efulfillmentservice.com
John Lindberg has submitted 38 comments:
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I provide fulfillment services to the ecommerce industry and the only thing I can add to the discussion about DIY vs. outsourcing is the idea of reducing the many cost variables to one number upon which that part of the decision process can be ... May 22, 2012 |
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My company does order fulfillment for others in fairly high volume and we track the packing material cost vs. effectiviness carefully. After testing almost every combination of materials and buying strategies, we have ended up with the followi... February 15, 2012 |
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You can be proud of the custom batch picking system that you developed and a bar code based check off approach as you recommend is the standard of the industry. For those who prefer DIY order fulfillment, I suggest an excellent low cost... December 21, 2011 |
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I am in the fulfillment business and we ship thousands of packages every day, but I have to admit that even with the special software and the experience of our shipping teams, even we sometimes have trouble with rate shopping between UPS, FedEx... November 24, 2011 |
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As supporting detail for point #2 Lower Shipping Costs, not only do most fulfillment companies provide delivery discounts and access to lower delivery rates, but there are some significant DIY fulfillment fixed costs that are avoided too. ...November 05, 2011 |
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The #1 reason that ecommerce merchants outsource fulfillment is aggregate cost reduction per order shipped and this is especially true at shipping volumes less than 2,000 orders per month. The overhead cost of UPS or FedEx daily pick ... November 01, 2011 |
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I am in the efulfillment business so I am especially concerned about the rising cost of shipping including trends like the coming restructuring of the USPS, ever increasing US energy costs and government induced inflation. One sugges... September 22, 2011 |
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I am in the efulfillment business and as such I have been lucky enough to work with hundreds of ecommerce merchants over the last ten years. Based on my practical experience, I wholeheartedly agree with your advice. Online merchandising is to... September 08, 2011 |
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I always like reading your articles Armando...excellent content. An important key to upgrading a webstore's return policy is use of the various special return processing services offered by USPS, FedEx and UPS. At my company, ... March 24, 2011 |
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There are lots of ways of saving money on shipping and fulfillment, but one that some online merchants may not know about is discounted UPS and FedEx rates. This can be achieved by what is referred to as "face off negotiation" between... February 24, 2011 |
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Excellent article Matt. The only thing that I can add is for those who are shipping merchandise in volume, it pays to set up a dedicated pick, pack and ship work center. In addition to a packing bench with shipping computer, software... February 18, 2011 |
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As an efulfillment service provider that works with hundreds of webstore merchants, I have to 100% agree with your excellent article. The only thing I can add is product research and development is really the ballgame in online sales. The fac... February 10, 2011 |
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Excellent article...some of those ideas had me slapping my forehead with the "why didn't I think of that" reaction! The only thing that I can add is that one nice thing about volume discount offers is shipping cost per pound drops drastically ... January 30, 2011 |
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To me, the key to free delivery is aggressive fulfillment cost reduction and that means expanded automation to minimize direct labor costs, face-off negotiation strategies with delivery carriers, winner take all packaging supply contracts plus ... January 30, 2011 |
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I really do understand how you feel...it seems sometimes like UPS and FedEx are going out of their way to make their pricing complicated. My next PeC article will be about a do-it-yourself pricing spreadsheet that I developed for my f... December 06, 2010 |
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I own a fulfillment company and our strategic planning these days is focused on improved processing efficiency and aggressive cost reduction leading to reducing our shipping costs and fees. The answer is automation and better warehous... November 24, 2010 |
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I am impressed by the Makais business model, but $40 per bike delivery cost seems high to me and I wonder if steps could be taken to reduce this a bit. For example, instead of spliting the ship volume between UPS vs. FedEx, it might pay to ne... October 05, 2010 |
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That is a good point about getting the shipping point closer to customers which is referred to as zone skipping. This service is offered by Amazon Fulfillment and ShipWire and my company offers the same thing via partnering arrangements in Eur... October 01, 2010 |
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Hi Elizabeth, That is an excellent point and I should have mentioned this in my article. When working with clients who have a lot of SKUs we often recommend that they build a spreadsheet listing each item, its retail price, wholesale ... August 13, 2010 |
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Hi Lori, The service you need is called "cross dock fulfillment" and if you google that term you will find several companies in California that offer this service. To make the numbers work you will need your manufacturers to i... August 13, 2010 |
