How to manage fluctuating fulfillment volumes

Let’s face it – no matter how detailed the inputs, how carefully we plan, forecasting is, at the end of the day, our best guess at the future.  And sometimes, we just get it wrong.  Maybe demand for a product skyrocketed or the market took a sharp turn – and that can leave us scrambling to adapt and manage the new reality.  How can you efficiently manage your fulfillment resources to meet your changing needs?

Even the biggest companies have to deal with this. After the fiasco of undelivered holiday gifts in 2013, UPS planned extensively and added thousands of additional workers along with investing heavily to improve and expand logistics operations in preparation for the 2014 holiday season.  But while they nailed on-time deliveries, on less busy days workers and trucks were left unused – and that resulted in lower than forecast earnings and the biggest drop in share price since 2008.

Partnering with the right fulfillment company can help you manage those fluctuating volumes.  You use the resources you need, scaling up and down as appropriate – and that’s what you pay for.  Fulfillment companies, with their wide variety of clients, can often manage and offset those fluctuations behind the scenes, leaving you with the support you need, no more and no less.  Talk to Vision to see how we can help you efficiently manage your fulfillment operations and the ever-changing volume demands!

Vision Consumer Products Fulfillment has decades of experience and industry expertise in consumer products fulfillment services.  No matter who your customer is, we treat your customer as our own.  We know what makes a raving fan out of an individual customer, as well as what makes a business partner trust you with their business.  Call or email us to learn how.  We’re certain we’ll be the best fulfillment warehouse partner you have ever had!

http://visioncpf.com

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Are you prepared to capitalize on the explosive growth in mobile e-commerce?

The 2014 holiday shopping season saw retail sales on mobile devices jump over 27% year over year.  Smartphone revenue grew faster than traffic, another impressive statistic since smartphone traffic increases often mean more research or browsing on their smartphones but with a decreasing conversion rate.  Does your customer experience support mobile?

According to Hayley Silver, vice president of Bizrate Insights, “To take advantage of the growth in mobile phone usage in retail, retailers need to continue to optimize their web site experiences and ensure they are providing legible and useful information to the customer who intends to buy online as well as those who intend to buy offline.  Furthermore, retailers need to look at both online and offline store sales as being positively impacted by the growth in mobile phone access to their web sites.”

The customer experience is everything in an e-commerce store. Today’s savvy shoppers expect beautiful online stores with lots of images, community reviews and ratings, social media integration, and more – all while delivering an intuitive and easy to navigate experience.  Vision Consumer Products Fulfillment provides a great first impression for your customers including a hassle-free and modern e-commerce experience.

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Vision Consumer Products Fulfillment has decades of experience and industry expertise in consumer products fulfillment services.  No matter who your customer is, we treat your customer as our own.  We know what makes a raving fan out of an individual customer, as well as what makes a business partner trust you with their business.  Call or email us to learn how.  We’re certain we’ll be the best fulfillment warehouse partner you have ever had!

http://visioncpf.com
CPFSales@VisionMediamgmt.com

Are you prepared to manage your shipping costs in 2015?

As free – and fast - shipping becomes the standard, retailers are struggling to manage the additional
costs.  And as of 5 January 2015, both UPS and FedEx will be imposing dimensional weight pricing on all ground shipments. Dimensional weight pricing (aka DIM pricing) bases rates on a package’s external dimensions rather than its weight.  This is expected to increase costs on about 30% of ground based shipments.  That doesn't include the other rate annual rate hikes and surcharges and combined, this is expected to have a dramatic impact on lightweight shippers since approximately 75% to 90% of online retail orders ship via ground services.  Do you have a plan in place to manage your shipping costs in 2015 and maintain your profit margin?

The right fulfillment partner can help you manage those costs and provide detailed knowledge of the factors driving those shipping costs along with many other strategic and operational recommendations.Whether that’s ideas on how to package your product, access to alternative modes of shipment focusing on small parcel shipping, or providing the key metrics to enable you to identify and maintain optimal inventory levels to manage resources, Vision can help you understand the playing field, and how to best navigate it.  Call us to help build and execute your plan to manage your shipping costs in 2015.

Vision Consumer Products Fulfillment has decades of experience and industry expertise in consumer products fulfillment services.  No matter who your customer is, we treat your customer as our own.  We know what makes a raving fan out of an individual customer, as well as what makes a business partner trust you with their business.  Call or email us to learn how.  We’re certain we’ll be the best fulfillment warehouse partner you have ever had!

http://visioncpf.com 
CPFSales@VisionMediamgmt.com

Are your fulfillment warehouse operations ready to capitalize on the e-commerce growth projected in 2015?

eMarketer’s first forecast of global e-commerce sales projects that in 2015, worldwide web sales will increase nearly 21.0% to $1.592 trillion, with e-commerce accounting for 6.7%  of all global retail sales. 2016 is expected to continue to increase, growing by 18.6% year over year to $1.888 trillion, with web sales comprising 7.4% of total retail. [1]  Are your company and your systems prepared to take advantage of the opportunity?

A solid partner can help you manage the fulfillment lifecycle, and enable you to capitalize on the opportunities presented by this growth.  A full service partner can provide the technology and services you need to as e-commerce continues to grow at double-digit rates.

Vision can help you effectively manage your entire fulfillment lifecycle, including inventory management, logistics and e-commerce.  Are you B2C?  B2B?  Both?  Vision can provide full support! And whether your customer is down the street, or around the world, as a 3PL fulfillment partner, Vision has the knowledge and relationships to help you succeed.  We’re also a certified General Purpose Foreign Trade Zone, and we can use our years of expertise to deliver solutions and value in the global arena – so you can participate in the expected growth.  Call us to discuss how Vision can help deliver your 2015 goals.

Vision Consumer Products Fulfillment has decades of experience and industry expertise in consumer products fulfillment services.  No matter who your customer is, we treat your customer as our own.  We know what makes a raving fan out of an individual customer, as well as what makes a business partner trust you with their business.  Call or email us to learn how.  We’re certain we’ll be the best fulfillment warehouse partner you have ever had!

http://visioncpf.com
CPFSales@VisionMediamgmt.com