Does it matter if a fulfillment company goes green? Of course it matters to the environment, but does it matter to the fulfillment company and its clients? Does it cost more or does it save money? Does it add to the work load or make things more efficient? Does it make a difference in the [...]

Does an order fulfillment company need to have direct experience with a product in order to do the best job? The answer is, not necessarily. There are many things you should look at when outsourcing fulfillment to a 3rd party fulfillment services provider, and surprisingly, experience with your particular product is not at the top [...]

Your business has made the decision to begin outsourcing product fulfillment, and the task at hand is to find the right fulfillment services company. Among the many considerations are a few that fulfillment service professionals consider key in making a successful choice. The first and foremost consideration is whether the product fulfillment company is passionate [...]

Amazon.com, Inc. which operates retail web sites, as well as provides programs that enable third parties to sell their products on it’s web sites recently began offering fulfillment services. The company that is known primarily for it’s book business and for being one for the first companies on the web to master the upsell is [...]

In setting up for inventory management of a 500-plus business-to-business (B-2-B) fulfillment operation, the discovery process is critical to the success of the client and the 3rd party fulfillment company. To be successful, the fulfillment company must understand all of the nuances of the client’s order configurations (i.e. number of line items, number of units [...]