There are many ways to reduce your shipping costs, but to do this, you need to be knowledgeable about smaller aspects of shipping you may have not been privy to before. One of the more immediate ways to save on shipping is by focusing on large packages you ship. Here, we’ll hone in on FedEx specifically, although the general lessons here can be applied to UPS as well. FedEx, when checki...
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2012
Feb 03
2012
Reducing Costs Through Shipping Comparison Tools
Posted: Feb 03, 2012
Shipping rates can vary quite a lot among carriers for any given package whether you ship few or many packages. For this reason, you should be utilizing a comparison tool to reduce your shipping costs! When you use these shipping comparison tools, they make it easier to save on shipping costs. For example, one tool will let you compare different sets of UPS or FedEx rate schedules fo...
Continue ReadingJan 27
2012
Source Consulting and Global Logistics Media Partnership
Posted: Jan 27, 2012
Source Consulting is proud to announce a partnership with Global Logistics Media (GLM) in providing blog posts on cost-saving shipping advice along with discussions on the freight and transportation industry. GLM is a premiere destination website for worldwide logistics news, information and opportunities. Along with an in-...
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2012
How to Make the Most out of Your Shipping Discounts
Posted: Jan 20, 2012
When carriers determine discounts and incentives for their customers, they may utilize some similar tactics, but overall, they do not have a singular system to differentiate between one company to the next. Therefore, they create custom, specific shipper strategies for pricing agreements and makes negotiating carrier discounts highly subjective. There are many different factors that the carri...
Continue ReadingJan 13
2012
Reducing Shipping Costs Through Optimizing Carrier Services
Posted: Jan 13, 2012
There are many ways to reduce shipping costs. One efficient way of accomplishing this task is by improving one’s organization policies related to carrier service level selection for shipments. Why? Because nearly all UPS and FedEx service levels have in-transit delivery guarantees, in which packages will definitely be delivered in a certain time frame. Thus, shippers should look to m...
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