Marketing with a 3PL
There are many benefits to hiring a 3PL (Third Party Logistics Company). Having a partnership with a 3PL provider seems to end with picking, packing, and shipping your products for your business. There are other businesses that just use it to storage. A lot of...
What Is FIFO?
Inventory management is so important when managing your eCommerce business. Planning your inventory can make a huge difference in your profit margins and cash flow. FIFO (first in, first out) is an essential concept to understand and follow. This method can help you...
How Much Does Fulfillment Cost?
Knowing how much to expect while fulfilling orders for your company is vital to the success of your business. Fulfillment costs can be broken down into four basic categories. With these there might be a few more that your business could or could not incur. Receiving...
What is a Warehouse Associate?
Here at Launch Fulfillment, we have a whole warehouse team. Each in different departments working together to make sure we send your packages properly and on time. Our team members are here to do the heavy lifting of ecommerce fulfillment. And they do it every day....
Factors to Consider for Warehouse Locations
There is a lot that goes into building or renting your own warehouse. You have to take many of those considerations into account when outsourcing to a 3PL as well. So, if you look at these factors to consider, you can have a better understanding to make a proper...
Shipping: Does it Cost More to Ship Fragile Items?
When thinking about shipping your fragile items, you must make sure to put into account that shipping fragile items tend to be a more expensive than shipping something not as fragile. Fragile products do take more dunnage and better packaging to pack them in in order...
Shipping: How to Ship Fragile Items
Ecommerce used to be limited as to what can be shipped and how they were able to be shipped. Ecommerce has now grown to be able to ship many kinds of products. From things like furniture and mattresses to exercise equipment to even some of the most fragile items out...
Best company to ship fragile items with Major Carriers
Sticker and hoping for the best. For ecommerce brands shipping glass supplement bottles, skincare jars, liquid products, or premium packaging, transit damage quickly turns into lost margin. When shipping fragile items at scale, small packaging mistakes can quickly...
