How to Negotiate Your Carrier Contract: A $400K Case Study
Everyone offers me better rates, but I don’t want to switch carriers—I want to optimize. Can you help me? That was the opening line from a Logistics Ops Director at a medical supplies manufacturer in the Midwest. No preamble. Just a problem and a question. It’s a situation I’ve come across more than once. When […]
Six Steps to Keep Your Carrier Costs Under Control
There’s a sentence I’ve heard more times than I can count after showing a Logistics or Operations Director how we work: “I knew there had to be a way to systematically spend less on shipping. I just didn’t know where to start.” Fair enough. Most Directors already have a pretty good idea that something isn’t […]