{"id":31,"date":"2026-08-30T09:53:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T09:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-logistic-pro\/2026\/08\/30\/preparing-your-supply-chain-for-the-holiday-shipping-peak\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T09:53:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T09:53:28","slug":"preparing-your-supply-chain-for-the-holiday-shipping-peak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-logistic-pro\/2026\/08\/30\/preparing-your-supply-chain-for-the-holiday-shipping-peak\/","title":{"rendered":"Preparing your supply chain for the holiday shipping peak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peak season starts long before the first holiday order. Retailers who plan in summer ship on time in winter \u2014 and avoid paying peak surcharges for last-minute space.<\/p>\n<h2>Lock in capacity early<\/h2>\n<p>Ocean and air space tightens from late summer. Fixed-rate contracts signed in Q2 protect both your price and your allocation.<\/p>\n<h2>Forecast with your forwarder<\/h2>\n<p>Share your sales forecast by SKU and lane. We plan bookings, warehouse space and trucking around it, so nothing waits on a dock.<\/p>\n<h2>Move stock closer to customers<\/h2>\n<p>Position inventory in distribution centres near your biggest markets to cut final-mile cost and delivery times.<\/p>\n<h2>Plan for returns<\/h2>\n<p>Holiday returns can reach 30% in some categories. A clear reverse-logistics process keeps resaleable stock moving back onto the shelf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peak season starts long before the first holiday order. Retailers who plan in summer ship on time in winter \u2014 and avoid paying peak surcharges for\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-commerce"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-logistic-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-logistic-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-logistic-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-logistic-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-logistic-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-logistic-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-logistic-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-logistic-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-logistic-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-logistic-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}