Last mile logistics and its challenges: the complete guide
How can we describe last-mile logistics in one sentence? Obstacle course. A true final sprint, this stage is the most dreaded. With the boom in deliveries and the...
Justine Demarque
The Shippr blog
Logistics
Logistics is the part of a delivery nobody sees: the round that saves an hour, the stock that leaves on time, the address that turns out to be a loading bay. The articles below are what we have learned running same-day deliveries in Belgium, France and the United Kingdom — route planning, outsourcing, warehousing, incoterms, and the paperwork that stops a van at a border.
Read them if you are still deciding whether to keep delivery in-house, or if you already run a fleet and want fewer empty kilometres. If you want the service rather than the theory, we run same-day delivery and multi-drop rounds with a courier network rather than a fixed fleet.
43 articles
The secrets of an optimized logistics warehouse: the complete guide
Ready to revolutionize your logistics warehouse? If you are looking to improve operational efficiency, reduce costs, and ensure successful deliveries to your customers, this guide is...
Justine Demarque
2023 Logistics Management Software Guide
Before a product or service ordered online arrives at the customer's door, it goes through several stages and different networks: production, processing, sales, delivery to the customer's home...
Justine Demarque
Proof of Delivery: Enhancing Your Multi-Drop Delivery Service
In today's fast-paced business environment, ensuring proof of delivery is essential for multi-drop deliveries. Learn how to enhance your delivery process with this crucial step.
Alexis Castaldo
Outsourcing Your Courier Service: A Strategic Decision for Growing Businesses
With the surge in deliveries, logistics has become a critical aspect of business operations. Discover the benefits of outsourcing your courier service for strategic advantages.
Alexis Castaldo
How to Master Pallet Shipping in the UK
When it comes to transporting goods efficiently, mastering pallet shipping is key. This article provides practical tips for optimizing pallet use in the UK.
Alexis Castaldo
The Ultimate Guide for Loading and Unloading
In the fast-paced logistics industry, safe loading and unloading practices are crucial. This guide offers essential tips to ensure efficiency and safety.
Alexis Castaldo
Shippr Quality Charter: For an unequalled quality of service in delivery
In the competitive world of delivery, the quality of a company's service is not only an asset, but an absolute necessity. The speed, reliability and efficiency of delivery...
Justine Demarque
Palette Europe: the key player in transport and logistics
If logistics had to have an emblem, it would undoubtedly be the pallet. They come in multiple dimensions adapted to various uses. Let's look at the Europe palette. Also from...
Justine Demarque
What is RFID technology?
Did you know that we use objects that incorporate RFID technology on a daily basis without even being aware of it? Whether through public transport cards, anti-theft devices...
Justine Demarque
Cross-Docking: Delving into This Technical Optimization
Have you ever heard of cross-docking? This innovative optimization technique can revolutionize your supply chain efficiency.
Justine Demarque
The secrets of ADR: highly secure transport
Have you ever heard of the transport of dangerous goods? This closely monitored form of transport moves sensitive goods such as chemicals, gases or...
Justine Demarque
Volumetric weight: how to reduce it?
Did you know that it is estimated that today, only half of the volume of a package is occupied by the product? But what about the rest? Emptiness, padding and that takes up space. In the...
Justine Demarque
How do you secure a lorry load and keep the goods safe?
Lorries are among the most heavily used means of moving goods. Delivering by this kind of vehicle looks easy, but it takes real care. Securing a lorry load...
Justine Demarque
ERP software: which one should you choose for your business?
Running any business rests on organising its departments in a structured, coherent way. Which is why most of them decide to use ERP software. This versatile, complete, capable tool has ...
Justine Demarque
APS logistics: the essential planning tool for the supply chain
How can you rely on technology to optimize your supply chain? It is exactly to answer this question that APS software was created. To be able to plan, predict and adapt...
Justine Demarque
WMS software: the ultimate tool for automating your warehouse
Good warehouse management, whether you run a logistics warehouse or a simple storage unit, is essential. The results show up directly: goods delivered ...
Justine Demarque
Marking on the floor of the logistics warehouse: what regulations?
Whatever its activity, a company must ensure the safety of its premises and its teams. To prevent and minimize accidents, it can then rely on signaling. The brand...
Justine Demarque
Push or pull flow: which production strategy should be adopted?
Do you design your business without thinking about efficiency for a second? Of course not. Whatever the sector of activity in which one works, efficiency is an essential point in the product...
Justine Demarque
How to do a logistics audit? The guide
Logistics is at the very heart of business performance. It is one of the challenges to be met in order to adapt to customer expectations and to position itself well in the face of competition from...
Justine Demarque
Logistics costs: learn more for better control
The role of logistics managers in all business sectors is to optimize productivity and ensure customer satisfaction. Faced with such responsibilities, master perfectly...
Justine Demarque
Order preparation: how to make it a key success factor?
Your business is a real success. You are delighted to see your products selling like hot cakes. That said, for that success to last, you have to optimise the process...
Justine Demarque
What is the procedure for loading and unloading trucks?
Loading and unloading a truck are dangerous operations that must follow a certain procedure. Indeed, for the safety of the driver, the environment and the goods,...
Justine Demarque
Artificial intelligence in stock management: the breakdown
Artificial intelligence (AI) is fast becoming an essential technology in the supply chain. Combining robotics with management software, they make 360° logistics po...
Justine Demarque
How do you reduce stockouts?
Have you ever come across this situation: a customer walks into your shop and heads straight for a product they saw on your website. After searching in va...
Justine Demarque
The guide to making reverse logistics work for you
Have you ever sent back something you bought online? If so, you played your part in the rise of reverse logistics in e-commerce. Reverse logistics covers the return of...
Justine Demarque
What is the handling time at Shippr?
Handling refers to the time of loading, unloading and waiting for the goods to be picked up and delivered. When you make a delivery, the customer has:...
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How to boost your sales through better logistics [Valentine's Day]
The year is punctuated by major celebrations, every one of them an excellent way to boost your sales. Once the end-of-year holidays are over, Valentine's Day comes round very quickly and ope...
Justine Demarque
How do you optimise your stock management?
“Out of stock”, “stock shortage” and “sorry, we have none left” are phrases that genuinely frustrate customers. Stock management is a problem that ...
Justine Demarque
How do you pack your products properly for delivery?
Have you ever experienced this frustration when one of your customers complains that they received their damaged package? In addition to customer dissatisfaction, damaged goods also cause...
Justine Demarque
Wine logistics: how do you optimise transport?
Wine is an exceptional product and the public loves it. It is given as a gift for every occasion. Behind the meticulous production work sits a wine logistics operation ...
Marc Beauvallet
Advice from our event logistics expert Jérôme Looverie
Event logistics plays a fundamental role in the success of an event. It is the foundation that brings together every resource needed to prepare and run a...
Jérôme Looverie
Outsourcing your logistics: when, how and why?
With the boom in deliveries, logistics is taking up more and more room inside companies. It is complex work, but essential to growth, and the question of outsourcing i...
Justine Demarque
How does Shippr free central kitchens from the burden of their logistics?
The restaurant and food sector is in the midst of a revolution. With the boom in deliveries, many activities are developing such as dark kitchens or even traditional kitchens...
Astrid De Le Hoye
How do you meet the urban logistics challenge?
What is urban logistics? Urban logistics refers to the transport movements of goods and services that start and end in city centres. It sits...
Justine Demarque
5 easy ways to cut your packaging costs
Whether it is colourful, plain, tied up with string and bows of every kind or simply made of good cardboard, packaging has a power: it creates a feeling of joy and sur...
Justine Demarque
Managing the different delivery constraints
Running a delivery service means dealing with a long list of delivery constraints. Usually inherent to logistics, they turn up at every...
Sophie Cools
How to choose the right logistics provider? 8 things to consider
Logistics has become an essential part of a great many businesses, in every sector. Pushed along in particular by the health crisis and the wave of closures, deliverie...
Justine Demarque
Top 5 benefits of outsourcing your logistics
As a business owner, you may already be aware of the economic value of outsourcing your company's supply chain management to a third-party logistics provider...
Sophie Cools
AI Solutions for Modern Inventory Management
In today’s rapidly evolving working environment, AI offers innovative solutions for inventory management. Discover how AI can transform your inventory processes.
Alexis Castaldo
Efficient Handling in Delivery Service: Optimising Same-Day Delivery for Maximum Efficiency
In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, efficient handling in delivery services is crucial. Learn how to optimize your operations for better results.
Alexis Castaldo
Push vs Pull Supply Chain Strategies
Operating in the supply chain environment can be complex, but understanding push vs. pull strategies can simplify decision-making. Learn which strategy suits your business best.
Alexis Castaldo
Top 11 Inventory Management Software Solutions
Running a business can often feel overwhelming, but the right inventory management software can streamline operations. Discover the top 11 solutions to enhance your inventory control.
Alexis Castaldo