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Carrier Compliance In Shipping: Everything You Need to Know

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When it comes to shipping, compliancy matters. Carrier compliance means to comply with the rules and regulations set by carriers for contracting with them. These include rules for labeling, rating and manifest reporting. Generally speaking, shipping carriers are constantly updating rating labels and other significant information. Therefore, it is crucial that businesses take compliance seriously. Lack of compliance can lead to several bottle necks in the supply chain process. It can adversely affect order fulfillment as well as customer experience. Although carrier compliance is important to ensure shipping successful operations, it is one of the toughest areas to handle. This is particularly true for companies engaged in international markets. The international shipping arena involves several customs rules, tariffs and packaging specifications. Needless to say, failure to handle these aspects properly can cause delays in deliveries. To simplify and streamline carr...

Amazon Selling for Beginners: Getting Started with the Process!

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Perhaps you are an already established seller, planning to promote and sell your product(s) on the Amazon Marketplace for the first time. Or perhaps you’re new in the business world, and you’ve decided to launch your entrepreneurial journey with Amazon. Whatever the case might be, what really concerns you at the moment is: How to start selling on Amazon. This article will walk you through the basics of Amazon selling. It does not discuss everything, but it does cover the essentials, such as: -  How selling on Amazon works? -  What are the things you need to set up an Amazon account? -  What types of accounts you can set on Amazon as a seller? -  How to decide which product to sell on Amazon? So let’s get started… How selling on Amazon works? The process is very simple. You register yourself as a supplier on Amazon. You create a listing of products that you want to sell, and you go active with your account. Customers come to Amazon. ...