Deposco

See you in Toronto next week 👋 Our team -Tom Ward, Carrie Gofron, Adnan Nathani, Kevin Tang, and Joe Henderson will be at DotDev - Shopify agency partners, let's connect. Schedule time → https://lnkd.in/ghr_vA6z

Most shippers treat carriers like vendors to squeeze. Rates go up, you complain. Service slips, you escalate. Contract renewal comes around, you threaten to leave. That approach leaves money on the table for both sides. The shippers winning right now aren't the ones with the most leverage. They're the ones who show up to carrier reviews with zone-level data, specific trends, and a shared view of where the relationship is working and where it isn't. When you give carriers something to work with, they prioritize your freight. That's the difference between a vendor arrangement and a partnership. → https://lnkd.in/gMfahhy4

In sneaker culture, being first matters. Feature's goal is to list and sell new products within 24-48 hours of receiving them. With 98,000+ SKUs, that's not a small ask. Since implementing Deposco, they're shipping 52% more orders daily, with 78% more SKUs — and the same team doing it. Full story → https://lnkd.in/e4_yRKRr

An 80% efficient worker who's only active 65% of their shift looks great on your efficiency report and terrible on your bottom line. Most warehouse operations track efficiency well. Almost none track utilization. They sound like the same thing. They measure completely different things — and only looking at one of them is one of the most common and costly mistakes in labor management. Here's the difference and what to do about it. → https://lnkd.in/gJZRPfXs

Attending DotDev in Toronto? Our team would love to connect with you. Schedule time → https://lnkd.in/ghr_vA6z

There's a version of a 3PL relationship that works fine. Orders ship. SLAs mostly hit. The monthly call happens. Nothing goes catastrophically wrong. Then there's the version that actually grows your business. Most brands don't realize they're in the first one until a competitor's 3PL becomes a factor in a sales conversation. By then, they've already paid for the wrong one. Five signs you're in a vendor arrangement when you think you're in a partnership. → https://lnkd.in/gjDC87aH

Fulfillment networks are being redesigned from the ground up. Distributed nodes. Real-time inventory accuracy as load-bearing infrastructure. Reverse logistics built in from the start, not bolted on at the end. Our SVP of Customer Experience, Josh Lett, contributed to this MHI Solutions piece alongside experts from MIT, Honeywell Intelligrated, and Dematic — covering what's actually driving the shift and what companies need to get right. Worth a read if you're thinking about network architecture for 2026 and beyond. → https://lnkd.in/gS4jgwK4

From all of us at Deposco, wishing you a safe and restful long weekend. 🎆

National Roper's Supply knew what a bad WMS implementation felt like. So when they went live with Deposco — and started shipping on day one — that first month of data hit differently. 700 fewer labor hours. 23% increase in order volume. Same week, year-over-year. Just in the shipping department. → https://lnkd.in/gTT-nwvJ

Retailers have been buying features for years. The ones pulling ahead now invested in the foundation instead. Bill Gibson, our CEO, and Eduardo Frias, Field CTO at Shopify, wrote about why that distinction matters and why agentic commerce is making it urgent. Orders arriving via AI search are up 13x year-over-year on Shopify. Those customers convert at higher rates and spend more. And they only show up correctly for brands with clean, unified data underneath. Integrated commerce and unified commerce aren't the same thing. The difference is architectural, and you can't "feature" your way out of it. Worth a read in Total Retail. → https://lnkd.in/gMeJtcGT