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Empowering Better Business with OpalMay You Never Have to Drop Ship!
If you’re not already doing it, here’s hoping you never find yourself in the position where you have to drop ship your products directly to consumers. It is a time consuming, detailed and often painful process with a great deal of pressure on profit margins. ...
Can You Hire an Order Processing Team for $800 a Month?
Do you have a drop ship order processing team that works 24 hours a day, seven days a week for $800 a month? Probably not, but this is what OPAL, an Autonomous Order Processing Solution gives you. And, you do not need to have a one size fits all solution. In fact:...
The ROI of Autonomous Order Processing
We’ve talked extensively in the past about the productivity gains and increased revenue potential through the use of Autonomous Order Processing, especially as it relates to the huge, positive impact it has on drop ship order profitability. But, many times, business...
The Drop Shipment Train is Coming
“Tis the Season” and if you are one of those businesses that experiences extremely high order volume during the holidays you may be looking for that light at the end of the tunnel following Christmas. Unfortunately, that light may be a train! The Black Friday...
Managing EDI and Other Financial Impacts on Drop Ship Orders
Unlike bulk orders worth thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars, drop ship orders are problematic in terms of managing your cost components well enough for a product to be profitable, especially when it’s retail price is less than $40 or $50. A lot of operating...
The Future of E-Commerce Orders – Autonomous Processing
Do you ever wonder what new, unexpected changes you will face to stay current, profitable and relevant to your customers? There are new emerging trends every day and suppliers are often struggling just to stay current with what’s happening today, much less what the...
Why Drop Shipping Is Inevitable
In recent years, we’ve all seen a number of high-profile retailers close their doors or file for bankruptcy simply because they were unable to navigate the rapidly changing consumer mindset. The example: on-line shoppers grew by 20 million between 2015 and 2016...
Why Autonomous Order Processing is Important
Well, the short answer is that it saves time – increasing your capacity for sales and delivery, it saves order processing labor – decreasing overhead costs, and it eliminates order processing errors – once again saving time while also building your brand in the...
Why Pay for EDI as Part of your E-Commerce Business
All companies large or small that are selling products on-line or for warehouse fulfillment to big box retailers like Walmart, Sears, Kohls, Home Depot, etc. or through e-tailers like Wayfair, Overstock, Hayneedle, etc. need EDI (Electronic Data Interchange). It’s a...
Why Drop Shipping can be More Profitable (and Less Time Consuming)
Ultimately, every business must deliver product on time at the lowest possible cost and remain profitable. To do that, however, you need to manage a lot of moving parts from manufacturing, to warehousing, to order processing and shipping – not to mention all of the...
Are You a Drop Shipper?
If you sell a product, pack it, and ship it in small quantities then you are a drop shipper. Unlike bulk LTL, truckload or container orders, drop shipping can be a complicated, time consuming process for not a lot of revenue per order and 20% of your orders can take...
Do You Meet Drop Ship Order Expectations Every Time?
OPAL is the first and only smart platform that combines all of the needed drop ship automation capabilities into one place. It , requires no human intervention, works 365x24, automates and enhances your ERP order processing capability, is fully compliant with all...
“The reason why one man is great and another man is living in mediocrity is simply because one understood the value of time while the other did not.”
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