How much do you really know about how your 3PL provider works? How much do you really care? After all, you outsourced your fulfillment to a third party organization precisely because you wanted to remove all of that complication from your plate and focus on other things.  In Part 1 of this blog series, we […]

In the modern age of technology, the concept of a “black box” is one that surrounds us every day. It’s the idea of a system that takes something in at one end, then eventually puts something out at the other end, but the entire process in between is concealed from the viewer–it’s like a black

One of the most complicated areas in the industry of fulfillment is the spectrum of regulation that applies to different materials and products. Some products require no special environmental conditions for safe storage, retaining their quality despite temperature changes and other factors. At the other end of the spectrum, there are more sensitive food and

When working in a complex, hectic environment like an e-commerce retailer or a large national manufacturing company, you recognize that there will be disruptions to “business as usual” that crop up from time to time. We might call them hiccups, snafus, or simply miscommunications, and they vary widely in importance. It’s just the nature of

While AI is seemingly making its way into every industry you can think of at the moment, that’s only the latest result of a trend that has been under way for decades. Automation has been adopted by more and more companies in more and more areas in an attempt to get routine tasks done more