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EasyPost Peak Season Guide

Prepare for Peak: Best Practices for Peak Season Readiness 

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Your Complete Guide for Peak Season

Preparing for something as unpredictable as peak season is no small task. Our comprehensive guide will cover 6 best practices to help you minimize disruptions and get the most out of your peak season!

Key topics covered in this guide:

  • Why analyzing data from previous peak seasons can help you better prepare for this year
  • The benefits of diversifying your carrier mix for optimal shipping performance
  • How you can avoid excess inventory and stockouts with the help of warehouse management systems (WMS) 
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"What [peak season is] doing is stress testing your fulfillment and your supply chain systems. And that's across your people, your processes, your technology, your inventory, your sales teams. Everyone is getting pushed to their limit. So think of it as, the rest of the year is kind of a job...but this is really where you need to sprint."

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Tom Butt
Sr. Manager, Customer Success, EasyPost
Unboxing Logistics Podcast, Episode 2

Take Advantage of the Most Reliable Shipping API This Peak Season

EasyPost targets a minimum of 99.9% uptime, meaning we target less than 10 hours of downtime over the entire year. Learn more about how we've become the industry leader in reliability.