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Your source for the timely reporting on multi carrier shipping solutions, shipment tracking, international shipping solutions and other supply chain topics. Come back often for the latest on how to improve customer service, reduce shipping costs and improve supply chain execution, supply chain visibility and more by enhancing your shipping systems.
Factors to Consider in Evaluating Regional Carriers
If you’re considering adding regional carriers into your multi-carrer delivery network, keep the following in mind….As a first step, it is important to make sure that your multi-carrier shipping system will accommodate
Blog ROI Tip #8: Leverage Regional Carriers to Reduce Your Freight Bill
Adding regional carriers to your multi-carrier shipping system can be an extremely cost-effective solution to reduce freight costs. Read our blog
Improve Warehouse Productivity with Mobile Powered Workstations
Our customers are always looking for ways to improve efficiency and throughput in their warehouse operations. One often overlooked, yet easy way to gain tremendous efficiency is to introduce mobile powered workstations into the order fulfillment workflow
Mobile Computing Tips to Streamline Supply Chain Workflow
ADSI’s Latest Blog: The right combination of flexbile software and mobile computers can dramatically enhance supply chain workflow. Our customers share their tips
An ET1 Tablet or an iPad for Your Enterprise?
We’re asked our mobile computing product experts to weigh in with some practical tips for consideration. Do you have questions about when to use an ET1 Tablet or an iPad®
Blog ROI Tip #6: Print Smarter, Not Harder! Automate Shipment Document Printing
Previous ROI tips have focused on optimizing shipment routing and rating. But you can also significantly save time and reduce costs by improving shipping document preparation
ROI Tip #5: Desktop Shipping ROI: Reduce Freight Costs on Non-Warehouse or Office Shipments
Take advantage of desktop shipping benefits to extend the cost-savings of your multi-carrier shipping system to every department in your enterprise. Learn more in our blog
Shipping ROI Tip #4: Eliminate Common Shipping Data Errors that Increase Freight Costs
Improve Your Shipping ROI: Shipping Data Entry Errors Can Cost Far More Than You Think Data entry errors can occur at a number of points during shipment processing – incorrect account numbers, missing or incorrect customer reference numbers, bad shipping addresses, etc. It’s easy to view such errors as isolated incidents, and yet, taken together,
ROI Tip #3: One Pound of Popping Corn or One Pound of Popped Corn? Get Control Over Dimensional Rating Issues
Make Sure Your DIM Weight Calculation is Accurate Have you audited your dimensional rating procedures lately? It’s a good idea, since this is an area where seemingly minor calculation differences can amount to significant back charges from your carriers. Before we get into the areas of risk, following are a couple of tips to keep
Shipping ROI Tip #2: Add USPS Online Postage to Your Carrier Portfolio
Online Postage is a Cost-Saver for USPS Shipping, APO Shipping and FPO Shipping Chances are that you already use the U.S. Postal Service in some areas of your shipping operations. But is it integrated into your shipping system? If you added USPS shipping rates to your multi-carrier shipping system, you could eliminate many time-consuming, manual processes
