UPS has made the following announcement regarding additional Peak Season Surcharges that will go into effect May 31, 2020. From the UPS website: Peak Surcharge – Applied to UPS® Ground Residential and UPS SurePost® Packages: A Peak Surcharge will apply…
Shoppers return more than three times as many products bought online (30%) as they do items bought in store (8.8%), according to research by conversion specialists Invesp. For ecommerce companies, this means that the returns process is a critical factor…
The recent earnings call from UPS brought several important details to light about changes to the marketplace the company is facing (see United Parcel Service Inc (UPS) Q1 2020 Earnings Call Transcript). Unsurprisingly, UPS cited the global pandemic as a…
Business has to go on. In fact, as a company that ships small parcels, it’s likely what you do is about to become more important than ever in COVID-19. This has, for the time being, changed how people are shopping.…
Here is a comprehensive guide explaining Descriptive, Predictive, & Prescriptive Analytics, written for the logistics industry. FROM THE UPS WEBSITE: Effective March 2, 2020, the fuel surcharges for U.S. Ground, Air, Import, and Export services will increase. Details on these…
The concepts of big data and predictive analytics in logistics are among the most talked about applications of technology in logistics right now. Yet, despite all the attention it can be difficult to understand these ideas in practice. The problem…
Over the five years since UPS and FedEx first introduced DIM weight pricing for freight and ground shipping, the cost of this method of rating shipments has increased each year, and it’s something shippers can no longer afford to ignore.…
UPS has announced its 2020 General Rate Increase (GRI), which means it’s time again for small parcel shippers to look past the headlines and figure out how the increases will impact their shipping costs in the coming year. As we…
On Monday, September 23rd, UPS made a service announcement regarding a new product: UPS Simple Rate. You can read more on the UPS website – here. UPS Simple Rate is a flat-rate service for packages up to 50 lbs. delivering to…
There’s a lot going on for shipping giant FedEx. The company’s been in the news a lot lately, and not for anything all that positive. Its public “break-up” with Amazon and a recent poor earnings call brought to light many…
