The carrier system has for a long time been a very oligarchic system, only made up mainly of two carriers, UPS and FedEx. Because of these two carriers, the rules of the shipping industry have always been based on comparing these two carriers’ prices and agreements and can, for insightful businesses, create a method to reduce shipping costs overall. However, this very system could change ...
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2012
Apr 13
2012
On the History of Logistics and Supply Chains
Posted: Apr 13, 2012
Although we should always be aiming at the future, what is equally as important is to understand our past history and progression of how a concept has evolved and the lessons we can learn of it. A historical outlook of supply chains and logistics, however, seems relatively difficult to pinpoint down to key moments. Luckily, Supply Chain and Observer created an intuitive and clean visual tim...
Continue ReadingApr 09
2012
Integrating Transportation Software and Technology to Reducing Shipping Costs
Posted: Apr 09, 2012
Technological innovations grows at a quick rate with new announcements and progress happening nearly every single week. However, integrating new transportation software is difficult at times, especially in industries that have been in business for quite a while and more averse to changes. The shipping industry seems very straightforward and the technological innovations readily apparent; ho...
Continue ReadingApr 02
2012
The Effects of the USPS Losses
Posted: Apr 02, 2012
2012 has been a busy year for the shipping industry both in big news items. Such events as the 2012 shipping rate increase has already affected many businesses’ budget plans for the year while floods and earthquakes in 2011 has shaken up many companies to look deeper into their risk management programs to create a viable Plan B. An interesting piece of news that will only, most likely, gr...
Continue ReadingMar 23
2012
Helping Reduce Shipping with Your Help
Posted: Mar 23, 2012
Source Consulting is always striving to help businesses reduce their shipping costs. We accomplish this through both our guaranteed money-saving work and the innovative software to help businesses with their shipping. Our work includes freight auditing carrier invoices, which checks for carrier errors that populate nearly all invoices for guaranteed savings, and carrier rate analysis and nego...
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