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How To Find Your Angel vs Demon Customers: A Q&A with Gary Cokins

How To Find Your Angel vs Demon Customers: A Q&A with Gary Cokins

Why identical customers have wildly different profit margins - and how to measure the real cost of serving them

Gowtham Ramachandran
How One Furniture Importer Increased Warehouse Capacity 70%

How One Furniture Importer Increased Warehouse Capacity 70%

Without expanding a single square foot - and with payback under one year

Gowtham Ramachandran
📹️: How We Helped a $2B Brand Fix Their 3PL Relationship

📹️: How We Helped a $2B Brand Fix Their 3PL Relationship

With Zack Napolitano and Aaron Raymond from the TAC Group

Gowtham Ramachandran
How Dr. Squatch Fixed Their Fulfillment Ops

How Dr. Squatch Fixed Their Fulfillment Ops

How ShipMonk helped Dr. Squatch turn around their operations in 90 days

Gowtham Ramachandran
How a 3PL Saved $470K in 12 Weeks

How a 3PL Saved $470K in 12 Weeks

A case study in fixing labor, leadership, and pricing - without capex spend

Gowtham Ramachandran
How Dermalogica Cut Split Shipments Rates

How Dermalogica Cut Split Shipments Rates

Lessons from Dermalogica’s network redesign that cut their split shipments by 92%

Gowtham Ramachandran
How Our Place Saved $1M a Year Cutting Packaging Waste

How Our Place Saved $1M a Year Cutting Packaging Waste

Deep dive on fixing a packaging system that couldn’t scale

Gowtham Ramachandran
How to choose and negotiate with the right 3PL

How to choose and negotiate with the right 3PL

Lessons from a fulfillment reset that saved close to $1M

Gowtham Ramachandran
How a 3PL Saved $2.6M by Renegotiating their Parcel Contract

How a 3PL Saved $2.6M by Renegotiating their Parcel Contract

How one 3PL saved big after a deep parcel audit

Gowtham Ramachandran
Tactics to Navigate Parcel Carrier Rate Hikes

Tactics to Navigate Parcel Carrier Rate Hikes

With logistics expert John McClymont on why carriers are making changes, when to work with regional carriers, tactics to optimize shipping, and more

Gowtham Ramachandran
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