article thumbnail

What Is Order Fulfillment and It’s Process and Strategies

Locus

million square feet at McCordsville, twenty miles northeast of Indianapolis. With an efficient order fulfillment process, businesses can reduce their shipping costs and improve their turnaround times which helps them increase their sales and revenue. How many orders am I currently shipping? What’s that? Why is it important?

article thumbnail

This Week in Logistics News (October 3-7, 2016)

Talking Logistics

Wal-Mart’s next move against Amazon: More warehouses, faster shipping (Reuters). “We have doubled our capacity in the last twelve months and that allows us to ship to a majority of the U.S. Denmark’s DSV eyes more big acquisitions in fragmented freight market (Reuters). population in one day,” Traweek said.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

This Week in Logistics News (September 28 – October 2, 2015)

Talking Logistics

It will be available soon in New York, Baltimore, Miami, Dallas, Austin, Chicago, Indianapolis, Atlanta and Portland. Meanwhile, Cloud Logistics introduced its Same Day TMS program “designed to allow shippers to start shipping – and saving – the day they start the project.” You can work as much or as little as you want.

article thumbnail

Addressing Labor Shortages in Warehouse and DC Operations

NC State SCRC

facility at an Indianapolis, Ind., One facility has low turnover and one has higher turnover – we see a real difference in slower productivity, more shipping errors, and less continuous improvement going on.”. Wilson, 59, was released in 2013 he sought out training at Goodwill, where he learned to drive a forklift.

DC 40
article thumbnail

Walmart Rolling Out Four High-Tech FCs

Multichannel Merchant

The company is reportedly patenting a five-step unload/receive/pick/pack/ship process leveraging Knapp technology, which took 12 steps under a manual fulfillment model. Walmart offers free two-day shipping on orders of $35 or more, or unlimited free shipping plus other perks for members of its $98-a-year Walmart+ program.

article thumbnail

Summer freight: Calm before the storm?

DAT Solutions

Prices are still well above last year’s pace, though, and that still suggests that the fall shipping season will be a busy one. There isn’t much urgency for long-haul freight at this time of year, so a lot of shipping has moved over to rail. Memphis rates also fell sharply, with the lane to Indianapolis down 21¢ to $2.59/mile.

article thumbnail

Converting More Leads to Loads with John Simpson

The Logistics of Logistics

The company is based in Indianapolis. [01:14] For customers who are shipping one to ten loads per week, those are still great customers that you want. [00:33] Please introduce you and your company. . My name is John Simpson. I’m the director of sales at Covideo. We’re an email, texting, video platform for salespeople.

Video 100