Drop Shipping is difficult, costly and all too often not as profitable as it should be.  That is a universal truth.  A big part of that comes from everything required to meet your customer’s expectations.  And by “customer” I mean not only the end consumer that you’re...

You receive an order, pick it, pack it and ship it to the consumer.  That is simple drop shipping.  Unfortunately, reality is never that simple.  To be cost efficient you need automation.  And by that I mean DROP SHIPPING AUTOMATION THAT DOES EVERYTHING FOR YOU...

Chances are that you’ve automated your e-commerce, drop ship business.  But, what does automation mean to you and how automated are you?  The truth is that automation should eliminate the problems, complexities and costs of drop shipping and do things like:  Require...

Retailers must offer the lowest cost of order processed compared to their competition.  It’s an imperative and we see it permeating the market all the time in different ways:  Walmart’s acquisition of Jet.com to improve its speed and agility, Sears removing the cost...

The rapidly expanding number of Manufacturers and Suppliers adopting OPAL all come with common business problems that they are trying to solve: They are drop shipping a large number of orders daily. EDI vendor cost and order processing labor is seriously impacting the...

Every business must deliver product on time at the lowest possible cost and remain profitable.  However, to do that you need to manage a lot of moving parts from manufacturing, to warehousing, to order processing and shipping – not to mention all of the exceptions...

Are you a manufacturer / supplier, drop shipping 50 or more orders per day directly to consumers?  Is each order costing you more than 72 cents including EDI and labor cost?  Do you use EDI vendors for data transmission?  Is your order processing capacity limited by...

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...

Wise financial managers have long resisted entering the drop ship business.  After all, it’s much more profitable to process a large LTL, truckload or container order than it is to process one order, one item at a time.  The economies of scale are enormous in bulk...

You know that big box retailers like Walmart, Sears, Target, Kohl’s, Kmart, etc., etc. are expanding their presence in the e-commerce world as a means to compete more effectively against more agile e-retailers.  So what advantages do big retailers really get out of...

With an average warehouse handling cost of $4 - $7, plus a minimum of $3 - $4 order processing cost per drop ship order, it can be difficult to squeeze out a profit on many items.  And, then, when an order goes wrong everything stops! You spend an enormous amount of...

Big box retailers like Walmart, Costco, Home Depot, Target etc. and .com e-tailers are becoming increasingly resistant to warehousing supplier products and are now requiring their suppliers to store and ship the products to consumers directly. In fact, some of these...