IWS Blog

Welcome to our warehouse management IWS blog, your go-to resource for insights, trends, and best practices in the dynamic world of warehouse operations. As the heartbeat of modern commerce, efficient warehouse management is crucial for businesses striving to meet the demands of today’s fast-paced market
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February 11, 2025

Types of Cardboard Material: A Guide to Cardboard Packaging and Uses

Poor packaging choices cost businesses thousands in damaged products and unhappy customers. Many companies struggle to select the right cardboard materials, leading to increased returns and wasted resources. But there’s good news – understanding cardboard packaging types helps cut costs while keeping products safe during shipping. This guide breaks down essential cardboard materials to help your business make smarter packaging
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February 11, 2025

3PL Selection Guide: Best Practices for Choosing the Right Third-Party Logistics Partner

Poor shipping accuracy, hidden fees, and unresponsive support teams create endless frustration for growing businesses working with third-party logistics providers. These issues drain time and resources while putting customer relationships at risk. Selecting the right 3PL partner can eliminate these headaches and create a foundation for sustainable growth. This practical guide outlines proven criteria to help you choose a fulfillment
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February 11, 2025

Flat Rate Pallet Shipping: Comparing Moving Box Store Rates and Shipping Options

Are variable shipping costs eating into your profits? Many businesses are limited by carrier rates that change based on distance, weight, and season. It’s particularly true for health and beauty, lightweight consumer goods, and beverage companies. When shipping costs are unpredictable, planning for growth is tough. But there’s an answer: flat rate box store rates provide stable and transparent pricing
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February 11, 2025

Packaging Supplies for Ecommerce: Essential Materials for Secure Shipping

Are shipping headaches holding you back? For health and beauty, beverage, and lightweight consumer goods brands, packaging problems can quickly turn into customer satisfaction issues and increased costs. Managing inventory, choosing the right materials, and quality control takes focus away from what matters most – growing your business. We handle the fulfillment headaches so you can focus on getting more
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February 11, 2025

Strategic Warehousing: Optimizing Your Supply Chain with Transparent Solutions

Rising costs. Delayed shipments. Unhappy customers. These are the real effects of bad warehousing that happen to businesses every day. Many businesses waste time and money trying to manage their logistics in-house, taking their attention away from growing their core business. But what if you could turn those supply chain headaches into opportunities? What if you could find a warehousing
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February 11, 2025

Warehousing and Logistics: Understanding Their Relationship in Supply Chain Management

Small and medium-sized businesses get stuck with complex warehousing and logistics. Internal teams get stretched thin, managing inventory, shipping, and cost. As businesses grow, these challenges multiply, opportunities get missed, and customers get frustrated. But by understanding how warehousing and logistics work together businesses can choose the right fulfillment partner to handle these operations and focus on growth initiatives. What
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February 11, 2025

Health and Beauty Logistics: Streamlining Warehousing and Fulfillment for the Industry

Beauty brands are under pressure to keep product quality while meeting fast delivery. Without fulfillment support, growing brands risk product integrity, missing deadlines, and losing customer trust. As sales grow, these challenges take focus away from product development and growth initiatives. At IWS, we help beauty and wellness brands with $1M+ revenue simplify supply chain complexity with transparent pricing and
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February 11, 2025

Drinks Logistics: Streamlining 3PL Solutions for the Food and Beverage Industry

Managing drinks logistics in-house is a resource drain and holds back your business growth. As volumes grow, maintaining temperature control, tracking stock and compliance gets more and more complicated. Small to medium-sized drinks businesses find themselves stuck between rising customer expectations and operational limitations. That’s where specialist 3PL support turns your supply chain headaches into growth opportunities. What is Specialist
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February 11, 2025

How to Ship Glass Bottles of Liquid: Best Practices for Safe and Secure Packaging

One broken bottle can ruin your whole shipment, disappoint customers, and damage your brand. Many businesses lose revenue and customer trust due to preventable shipping damage. But there’s good news – with the proper packaging and a reliable fulfillment partner, you can ship glass bottles safely to your customers. Shipping Glass Bottles of Liquid Challenges Glass bottles need to be
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October 8, 2021

The True Cost of Self Fulfillment

Want to scale your home based self fulfillment? For any founder getting traction and finding a market for their item is incredibly rewarding. That is until they find them themselves using their home as a makeshift self fulfillment center and using all of their favors with friends and family to come and help them pack and ship their items. This
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