How To Fix Peak Season Shipping Delays Before It Hurts Your Growth?
Every internet business owner can relate to the thrill of a successful promotion or hit product. Sales increases are thrilling, but there’s a huge wave of operations behind them. Suddenly your inbox is exploding with order alerts and your desk is a mess of packing tape, shipping labels and half-filled boxes. You’re sick of working late into the night packing shipments by hand and, try as you can, mispicks and shipping errors start popping up in your day. Once your client happiness drops, your shipping times will slow down from fulfilment bottlenecks. Today’s customers expect fast shipping and precise tracking information to be the standard for any online purchase. The Hard Ceiling of In-House Fulfilment If you’re only sending out a dozen orders a day, it’s easy to handle the logistics yourself. But the growth of an online store produces unforeseen friction across your supply chain. Small storage areas fill up fast, and it becomes difficult to keep track of inventory counts. Manua...