Why Kickstarter Projects Are Late Entrepreneurs using the popular crowd-funding website Kickstarter are quickly learning that product manufacturing, fulfillment and distribution can be a huge headache. A recent CNNMoney survey of the top 50 most funded Kickstarter projects found that 84% missed their target delivery dates,...
5 Ways Your Product Fulfillment Partner Can Improve Customer Experience When a customer orders your product online, excitement and anticipation ensue. There are certain expectations your customer will have for the product they have just purchased. These include trackability, on-time delivery, and packaging and presentation that...
How Same-Day Fulfillment Works Same-day fullfillment optimizes efficiency for retailers on a tight schedule. Retailers are starting to have more same-day delivery options to evaluate, including both delivery to the customer and in-store pickup. Here’s a diagram from the shop.org Think Tank, to help visualize these...
The Benefits of Outsourcing Product Fulfillment The idea of trusting another business to handle your product fulfillment may seem nerve-racking. Whether you’re a new enterprise with smaller order volumes or a veteran business with sunk costs in warehousing facilities, running inventory management, order assembly and fulfillment...
7 Ways We Attack Waste Some folks wonder how product and marketing fulfillment got together. Operationally both rely on fast, efficient distribution processes for success. Each require minimizing what lean manufacturing, a decades old production optimization methodology, calls “the seven wastes:” 1. Over production 2. Over processing 3. Transportation 4....