January 31, 2022
In this edition of the Camelot Podcast, DesktopShipper's Todd Dunlop, COO, and Camelot's Geoff Greenhill, Director of Sales and Marketing discuss the trends and growth associated with today's eCommerce fulfillment and shipping operations.
January 7, 2019
If Excel is not part of your daily workflow as a third party logistics warehouse, read on. You are already using a best-in-class WMS software to manage your warehouse, store your data, and communicate with your clients. That WMS system should be capable of extracting and reporting data to you in various ways. So where does Excel fit in to the picture? Excel is your tool for ad hoc reporting and data manipulation. In the last 11 years of working only in the 3PL logistics industry, I have found the […]
October 2, 2018
Do you remember the good ‘ol days of LBA? Yeah, you know, Life Before Amazon? Times were so much simpler back then. Before Amazon was disrupting markets, when a shipping order was received from a client, the 3PL had a few days to process it in the warehouse. Then carrier transit time took another 4 – 5 days… maybe a week. The customer was happy if the order arrived within 10 days. But now with Amazon and their ubiquitous Prime service, customers (B2B and B2C) expect 2-day turnaround or less… […]
June 6, 2018
I’ve got updates on the brain. Not only have I been working to push out the largest update to our product in the past two years, but I’ve been bombarded with updates from all angles. Windows, my phone, televisions, wrist watches, the FBI wants me to update my router, video games I play, websites I browse, my thermostat. My thermostat needed an update. I’m just waiting for my electric toothbrush to ask for my wifi password so that it can update as well. I wonder what these updates are really […]
March 21, 2018
It’s a common request during most software implementation: “I don’t want to hit that button… that’s what I bought the software for. Do it for me. Automate!” Automation is a blanket term that can be thrown at any number of cumbersome manual processes. And why not? The Miriam-Webster definition is just as generic: “the technique of making an apparatus, a process, or a system operate by a self-acting mechanism.” When talking about performing a software process without human intervention, there needs to be a starting point or a trigger. In automation, […]
February 7, 2018
Are you in the process of evaluating a new warehouse management system? At a high-level, warehousing is the business of moving inventory AND data. To be successful, you have to be good at receiving, storing and shipping physical products as well as managing the information related to that inventory. Evaluating and selecting a new warehouse management system (WMS) can be an overwhelming process. Where do you find solution providers? What information do you need? How do you compare systems? What features are important? What other non-product factors are important when […]