Online retail is one of the fastest growing industries in the world. At the end of 2018, Forrester, a leader in research and analytics firm stated that the B2B (Business-to-Business) e-commerce market reached $1.134 trillion – far above the expected $954 billion it forecasted at the end of 2017. The growth in this industry is still expected to rise with Forrester believing that this will climb even higher – about 17% by 2023. Understanding this information and where the market’s trending means you need to understand the acronymic lingo that goes along with e-commerce and logistics; you’l ..read more

This is the fourth installment in a parody series about doing bad business. The content herein should not be taken seriously. Logistics for Hire is in no way liable for the stupid consequences of following this stupid advice. You think you’re the future of eCommerce. You’re a traffic master, and your products are great. Customers love your products – until they get them in the mail! The culprit: your online store! Here’s how to make your customers furious by completely neglecting your product pages. When you take photos of your product for your online store, don’t use a lightbox – ju ..read more

Bullwhip: How Coronavirus Hit Meat Distribution Several major meat companies were forced to shut down processing plants in Q1 2020 due to the severe coronavirus outbreaks in their facilities. At one point, meat and poultry giant Tyson Foods published a full-page ad in the New York Times declaring that “The Food Supply Chain is Breaking.” The recent report on COVID outbreaks in meat and poultry plants published by the Centers for Disease Control found that nearly 3% of the 130,000 workers tested were coronavirus-positive – that’s almost 60 times the known infection rate in the United States ..read more

You’ve just invented the world’s most comfortable socks, the most effective toothpaste, or a supplement that increases lifespan – or maybe you just sell yarn online. In any case, whether selling to consumers (business-to-consumer, or B2C) or retailers (business-to-business, or B2B), optimizing your online product listings has amazing benefits for your business. You’ll sell more of your inventory and gain brand new data insights into purchasing habits and more. By understanding what qualities provide maximal product visibility, as well as the pitfalls that can make products suddenly invis ..read more

This is the third installment in a parody series about doing bad business. The content herein should not be taken seriously. Logistics for Hire is in no way liable for the stupid consequences of following this stupid advice. “Do you have this product in stock?” It might be the most basic lay-up of a question a customer has ever asked you. Whether it’s in a brick-and-mortar store or online in a live chat, if someone asks you if you have a particular SKU, it usually means they’re ready to try it or purchase outright. But you don’t want a happy customer, do you? No! You want to infuriate them! P ..read more

If you’re starting a warehouse for the first time, you’ll eventually come face-to-face with the dilemma of how to organize it. You’ll already have some back-end tools, like Shopify, that does a great job helping you sell your stuff, but you’ll have no idea where that inventory lives, what’s going out when, etc. Your first impulse may be to go with a big-name brand enterprise resource planning system that combines a hundred business features into a giant platform – but that might not be your smartest option. In this quick blog, we’ll review the differences between ERP (enterprise resource pla ..read more

A warehouse is, as you probably know from experience, a vast network of tiny moving parts, scan beeps, pallets, orders, and more. To have happy customers, you have to consider your warehouse operations in a way which is organized and can both dispatch orders on time and fulfill returns in an appropriate fashion; this can range anywhere from traffic management to labor, from software to hardware. Here are the top 5 warehousing pain points we’ve observed – and how you can avoid them: Inefficient warehouse layout Think about the way your warehouse is designed. Does it look like it was designed b ..read more

Online retail is one of the fastest growing industries in the world. At the end of 2018, Forrester, a leader in research and analytics firm stated that the B2B (Business-to-Business) e-commerce market reached $1.134 trillion – far above the expected $954 billion it forecasted at the end of 2017. The growth in this industry is still expected to rise with Forrester believing that this will climb even higher – about 17% by 2023. Understanding this information and where the market’s trending means you need to understand the acronymic lingo that goes along with e-commerce and logistics; you’l ..read more

This is the fourth installment in a parody series about doing bad business. The content herein should not be taken seriously. Logistics for Hire is in no way liable for the stupid consequences of following this stupid advice. You think you’re the future of eCommerce. You’re a traffic master, and your products are great. Customers love your products – until they get them in the mail! The culprit: your online store! Here’s how to make your customers furious by completely neglecting your product pages. When you take photos of your product for your online store, don’t use a lightbox – ju ..read more

Bullwhip: How Coronavirus Hit Meat Distribution Several major meat companies were forced to shut down processing plants in Q1 2020 due to the severe coronavirus outbreaks in their facilities. At one point, meat and poultry giant Tyson Foods published a full-page ad in the New York Times declaring that “The Food Supply Chain is Breaking.” The recent report on COVID outbreaks in meat and poultry plants published by the Centers for Disease Control found that nearly 3% of the 130,000 workers tested were coronavirus-positive – that’s almost 60 times the known infection rate in the United States ..read more