Click-to-Ship Time: How fast are you getting an order out the door?
There’s so much that goes on behind the scenes after a customer makes an order. Many retailers are keen on optimizing this phase so they can get packages processed and shipped faster. If you’re wondering how you stack up against retail giants like Amazon when it comes to getting orders picked, packed, and sent out on time, then you need to start paying attention to a key metric that many retailers seem to ignore: Click-to-Ship Time . After analyzing tons of data flowing through Fenix’s system, we pulled some interesting click-to-ship statistics and insights: Across all industries, it takes on average less than 2-days to get a product out the door. Across industries, Toys & Games is the fastest at getting product out the door, on average 1.2 days Fashion & Apparel is the slowest to get the product out of the warehouse taking an average of 3.4 days (Why is this taking so long) On-time rates for carriers hover between 60-80%. That 20% gap can be...