Kenneth Kowal

Managing Your Shipping Department

The Shipping Department coordinates the identification of the products that are ready to ship. This department also arranges the features of the shipment to meet the customer’s requirements, such as packing, the carrier according to the delivery time and ... Read >

A New TMS Tool for Shipping

Logistics is one of the most important parts of any business today and with advancement in technology and increase in internet usage managing logistic over the internet is gaining popularity. Businesses are always trying to find reliable sources that can ... Read >

Logistics Software for Manufacturers

According to the market research, the Transportation Management Systems or TMS market had exceeded $1 billion in 2006. Through the years, the aim of a TMS implementation remains to be the best achievement of customer service level requirements and at the ... Read >

The Importance of Freight Invoice Audit and Payment for Your Company

When visiting a local importer or online order fulfillment (ecommerce order fulfillment) you usually end up sitting down with their logistics manager to learn how they were coping with these economic hardships and the flood of shifting freight rates and s... Read >

Managing Logistics Spend

Transportation spend management is the process of evaluating the shipping costs a company is incurring to ship goods. This can include the cost of shipping orders to customers or moving raw materials from suppliers or even the transfer of work in progress... Read >

Logistics Spend Management Fuel Surcharges

Around a decade ago is when fuel surcharges became ubiquitous. Prior to that period, the cost of diesel fuel was always there, but back then shippers essentially paid for fuel as a part of their linehaul rates. The market fluctuations in fuel costs were f... Read >

Handling Order Fulfillment for an Online Retail Startup

If your company has a product it sells through normal retail distribution channels, it may be time to compliment that business with a direct to consumer approach. There is possibly a huge market segment out there located too far away from the traditional ... Read >

Artisanal Sausage Makers Taking On The Big Boys

It used to be that no one wanted to know exactly what went inside a sausage. They knew it tasted good, but they didn’t want to ruin the experience by knowingly ingesting what was widely believed to be ground up pig parts like snouts, tails and entrails. ... Read >

Online Order Fulfillment - To Outsource or Not?

For artisanal sausage retailer, Sausage Obsession, business is booming. With that growth comes a lot of challenges, such as maintaining the right level of inventory of all their products to fill customer orders and making sure to keep the right product mi... Read >

What is a Bill of Lading?

A Bill of Lading is a document issued by a consignor (or shipper) and signed by a carrier at the time of pick up, acknowledging that specified products have been received on board as cargo for delivery to a named consignee, or destination. It serves as a ... Read >

Three Reasons to Automate Your Freight Invoice Audit Process

Reduce Freight Costs: First off - the reality is a lot of freight invoices are incorrect, so they all should be checked. Mileage calculation errors are common and the complexity of fuel surcharge matrices mean that the applicable surcharge changes wee... Read >