Same Day Shipping - Step By Step

If you run an e-commerce business, you have probably seen the advantage that you could gain by offering same day shipping to your customers

. When you run any kind of an online business you can't help but be influenced by the trends and changes being implemented by the online mega-stores. For example, now that Amazon is offering same day shipping, there are sure to be lots of smaller stores following suit. Before you try to set it up though, you'll want to understand how same day shipping really works.

Any proven leader in same day courier services can help you understand how it is possible for a company to ship within a single day to almost anywhere in the country. Here is a brief rundown of how the process would work if you chose a company like a national courier service for your courier services.

The first thing that happens in this type of transaction is that a customer will place an order with your company. From there, your order is likely sent directly to your warehouse. If you have more than one warehouse, the best thing to do is to set up your system to ensure that when a client places an order, it is automatically sent to the warehouse closest to their physical location.

The warehouse is then going to contact the courier company (or your company will direct them to the warehouse, depending on how you choose to structure your distribution). Then, the dispatcher from the courier company is going to take over the process. Their first job is to look at the resources that they have available to them. This will help them decide what the most expedient way to make your delivery is going to be.

These resources include a much larger variety of couriers and vehicles than you might first realize. That is because the company doesn't operate strictly by maintaining a fleet of their own vehicles and full time employees. Instead, they rely on subcontracting independent workers with their own vehicles to make these deliveries. This gives them a great deal more flexibility and the capability to make much faster deliveries.

They also have other resources at their hands as well as these independent delivery workers. One of the most important pieces of the puzzle is their relationships with airlines, as air travel is an integral part of same day deliveries that need to travel over great distances. They will ship at times with freight airlines or ship small packages commercially, often with a courier, to make sure they arrive as fast as possible.

The dispatcher is going to have several tools at their disposal to help them come up with the best combination of workers and routes to make your delivery as fast as possible. They will usually use some kind of courier software that is widely available, to help them create the dispatch. This helps to immediately get their employees moving to complete the delivery by electronically dispatching them via the software.

At that point, you'll have a courier on their way to pick up your package. This is very similar to the techniques that are going to be used by Amazon as they introduce their same day service into seven initial cities. Yet, this method can also be used by anyone else, running any kind of company, to service clients anywhere in the country.

by: Paul McDuffy

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