You may not be able to keep parcel carriers from imposing unexpected peak season cost changes, but you can prepare to manage surcharges. The key is to understand your shipping data, work with trusted partners, and protect profitability by responding quickly.
Large volume parcel shippers have a huge transportation budget laden with line items. Often, this spend goes unmonitored due simply to the sheer amount of work required to track significant quantity of invoices, payments and claims.
Shipping cost management challenges are second nature for many businesses. Optimizing vendor management, carrier relationships and total resource use for shipping is an incredibly complex process. Raw data and input from diverse stakeholders complicate efforts to make sense of shipping costs and obscure opportunities to reduce expenses.