Coming off a year that found both carriers and shippers struggling to piece together logistics and transportation strategies in an extremely disruptive environment, many companies came into 2021 with the hope that things might get easier in the New Year.
Right now, all shippers are worried about getting packages out the door, onto trucks, and into their customers’ hands during the busy holiday season. Laser-focused on the fourth quarter, these companies should also be thinking about 2021, what new impacts it will bring, and what they can be doing now to prepare for these impacts.
The average rate increase for primary services provided by UPS and FedEx mirrors that same
With more than half of customers going elsewhere after a poor experience, now is not the time to let your guard down on service audits.
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.
Introduced throughout the year — often with little or no advance warning — carrier surcharges can have a major impact on a shipper’s profit margins. Pandemic spurred peak surcharges at an unprecedented time in 2020.
It seems a perpetual peak season is rapidly becoming the new norm in small package shipping.
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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.
