As an online retailer, you want to offer your customers the best possible shipping experience. This includes offering in-cart shipping rates that meet customer expectations while avoiding spending more on shipping than necessary.
A sometimes overlooked but significant factor that impacts shipping rates is how items are packed. To get the best shipping rates, it’s important to pack items into the boxes that best fit those items. If you’re not packing efficiently, you could be losing money with every order you ship.
Today, are you losing money because of the difference between the in-cart shipping costs you charge customers and the actual shipping costs that carriers charge you because of inefficient packing and not leveraging a packing optimization solution?
ShipHawk’s Smart Packing™ is an intelligent algorithm that automates box selection by identifying the best way to pack an order based on item characteristics such as dimensions and weight. With Smart Packing™, you can reduce manual work and inefficient decision-making while minimizing shipping costs and reducing packaging waste.
Working with Smart Packing™ is ShipHawk’s powerful dynamic rules engine. One way you can use the dynamic rules engine is to have specific rules about which items go into which types and sizes of boxes, poly bags, or packages.
With Smart Packing™, you can quickly and accurately find the best way to pack items into boxes. Further, as needed for larger orders, you can then immediately identify the best way to pack those boxes onto pallets. Smart Packing™ can greatly improve your packing efficiency, and is especially ideal for packing scenarios where you have:
To learn more about the full range of capabilities and how Smart Packing™ can benefit your business, Packing Optimization.
With the dynamic rules engine, you can define rules to manage all kinds of packing situations specific to your business. For example, when packing, do you need to:
…and many more. You can manage many more such situations with the dynamic rules engine, which offers over sixty criteria for defining shipping policy rules. To learn more about how the Dynamic Rules Engine™ can meet your packing use cases and business requirements, see Dynamic Shipping Rules.
Together, Smart Packing™ and the dynamic rules engine can assure that you are packing every order as efficiently as possible. To learn more about how ShipHawk can make sure you are not losing money during your packing process, contact us today.