E-commerce is becoming the preferred way to shop for the majority of Americans. In fact, looking at 2017 industry statistics, it was estimated that 51 percent of Americans prefer to shop online and that e-commerce is growing 23 percent year-over-year.
The growing popularity also presents a few logistical challenges that businesses have to address. Let’s take a look at a few of these challenges and explore how online freight services can help.
How Online Freight Services Help E-Commerce Logistics?
Free Online Shipping Rates
Depending on the item that needs to be shipped, it can be a logistical challenge to provide a customer with an accurate shipping rate. Some online freight services solve this challenge by offering their customers a freight calculator to use.
Having a calculator directly on your website can also improve your conversion rates and improve the customer’s overall shopping experience. The reason being, a customer can immediately get an idea of how much it will cost them to have something shipped, making them more likely to go through with the shipment.
Tracking shipments
A conversation that many businesses are having is on the subject of transparency and how to keep their customers informed as to the status of their orders. Providing a tracking number is simple enough, but tracking a multitude of shipments at once can become complicated and time-consuming. Online freight providers should be able to offer the technology you need to easily track each shipment in real-time. Having automated tracking solutions in place will save you valuable time so you can focus on other important areas of the supply chain.
Final thoughts
As your e-commerce business continues to grow, online freight services can assist with your questions and meet your shipping needs. At The Junction LLC, our industry experts are able to help you overcome your shipping logistics challenges and are knowledgeable about a variety of shipping topics.
The Junction LLC
The Junction LLC is a full service transportation management provider headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska offering shipping and brokerage services across the country. We are the most recent addition to a family of logistics businesses started in the 1950’s. We can meet any supply chain need from the production line to the store shelf.
LTL Shipping
Less-than-truckload Shipping Omaha shipments are larger than parcels but not large enough to require an entire truckload. That makes LTL the most economical way to ship palatalized freight weighing between 150 pounds and 20,000 pounds….Click here for more.
Full Truckload Shipping
The market is constantly changing and can be a challenge for customers needing full truckload services (FTL) and solutions. We work with our network of carriers to find capacity to handle your full truckload services shipping needs at competitive rates…Click here for more.
Freight Brokerage
You save cost by taking advantage of our purchasing power There’s one reason The Junction LLC Transportation Management service has become one of the industry’s top brokers — we know how to help our customers move more freight, more cost effectively. We bring a lot more than the stability of 80 years in transportation and an unbeatable carrier base. We deliver the tools you need to get your business moving in the right direction…Click here for more.
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As a leader in the transportation industry, we demand excellence from our entire team. Our team at The Junction LLC strives to deliver the best possible customer service and is driven by a desire to solve our customer’s toughest transportation and supply chain needs.
Our team is dedicated to serving our customers and will take the necessary action to deliver our customers’ products safely, efficiently, and on-time. This is our promise to you!
Nationwide Services include:
Trucking & Freight Shipping Services:
- Overweight,
- Over-dimension
- Time sensitive shipments
- LTL (Less-Than-Truckload)
- FTL (Full Truckload)
- Flatbed
- Flatbed LTLRGN (removable goose neck lowboy)
- RGN (removable goose neck lowboy)
- Maxi’s / A-Train / B-Train
- Heavy Haul
- Over Dimensional
- Dry Van
- Dry Van LTL
- Refrigerated
- Refrigerated LTL
- Power Only
Additional Services:
- Our sister companies can also provide warehousing in our food grade facilities, cross-docking, and contract warehousing.