Technology continues to grow and become more entrenched in everyday life, and this includes in the transportation and logistics fields. Some people wonder how we ever went without it because technology has a way of making processes easier and more streamlined. If you’re curious about what technology can do for logistics, read on.

1. Improved Tracking Systems for Shipments

• Originally when someone purchased an item, they bought it and got an estimated delivery date. This was all they got unless they called the company. However, this has changed, and customers can now track their shipments digitally 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. They’ll usually be able to tell the date and time their item left a facility, where it’s headed, and the date and time they’ll have it delivered.

2. Greater GPS Accuracy

• Do you remember using a paper map to find your way or printing directions off your computer

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How Omnichannel Shopping is Increasing Fraud Threat

For ecommerce and omnichannel sellers, the threat – and cost – of fraud continues to climb. The combination of cyber criminals and endless consumer data breaches are the main drivers behind this increase. And the fraud itself is more complex than ever.

Over the last several years, fraud at three stages (shipping fraud, billing fraud and shopping fraud) in the payments workflow has jumped more than 30 percent. A recent report by Experian, 2017 E-Commerce Fraud Report, shows that shipping fraud alone has increased by 37 percent; this is the point at which scammers arrange for stolen goods to arrive at their address for quick reshipping. Billing fraud, which involves an unwitting consumer’s stolen data being used to buy items for resale, reached 34 percent.

Fraud Costs Merchants Money

This increase in fraud over the last few years is expensive. Initially, it …

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