The Shipwire team is really growing to love Chicago. Shipwire was out in force at the Stone Edge User Conference and Internet Retailer last week and Chicago really treated us well. The weather held up well and we even got to check out some of Chicago’s amazing architecture and cultural scene like Millennium Park. Fantastic city, great music, wonderful people and we made some great business connections. Read more
Shipwire went to Stoneedge User Con 2008 outside of Chicago this weekend to support the Shipwire Stoneedge Order Manager Shipping and Order Fulfillment Solution. It was a small but jam packed show that Barney and the whole Stoneedge team did a great job putting together. Read more
The Shipwire tradeshow team is going to have a very busy June in Chicago. We will be attending lots of tradeshows and user conferences to support our partners and merchants. Read more
A few weeks ago a few of our merchants submitted case studies to Alibaba’s eBusiness Champion Contest. I thought that they were actually very cool case studies of how entrepreneurs at various stages of business are using Shipwire to automate their ecommerce order fulfillment. What is particularly interesting is how these merchants sourced products internationally on Alibaba.com. Read more
The Shipwire engineering, operations and development staff have been incredibly busy over the past couple months releasing new warehouse management, inventory management and order fulfillment features and service offerings.
There has been so many new features released in the past few weeks that I’m having trouble keeping up to date blogging all the details and uploading screenshots. Rather than cry about it, I’m going to celebrate it with a long blog post with lots of new features. If your interested in seeing it all and playing with the system functionality please create an account or free trial (no credit card, only an e-mail address). Read more
This Procrastinators Guide to Holiday Importing was written by our executive team and marketing really thanks Saul Smith, Shipwire Chief Logistics Officer, for really giving us some great real-world data to help guide merchants.
If you are thinking about importing inventory, whether it be toys, electronics or apparel for Holiday sales in 2008 it is time to review your product sources, put in orders and start figuring out the most cost effective method of getting your inventory to the right warehouse.
You’re probably saying, wait…its March…You have to be kidding me. Sorry to burst your bubble. If you import, getting over the ‘08 holiday bah-humbugs early is critical!
One of the dirty little secrets of logistics is that there is a glut of space available during the first 6 months of the year and more merchandise than space the second six months of the year. It doesn’t matter if your shipping by boat, train, plane, truck or your having Tom Tuttle from Tacoma Washington hand deliver it for you. The closer you get to September and October the more expensive rates get and the harder it is to meet your delivery time lines. Read more
