Fulfillment Companies Beware: Unaudited Freight Costs Eat Away at Profits
Since fulfillment companies are in the business of managing storage and shipping on behalf of other organizations, you’d think that they would spend an appropriate amount of time inspecting the details of their own freight costs in order to ensure maximum discounts and savings. And to a large extent, most fulfillment companies do spend a […]
How do you reduce shipping costs by analyzing your shipping invoice?
It’s no secret that a company’s shipping expenses can be crucial to its success, but let’s face it: we often tend to underestimate the financial impact they have on our businesses. Shipping costs may seem like a necessary evil, but we can save a lot of money by analyzing the phenomenon correctly and handling it […]
How to Write a Freight Claim?
In this short article we’d like to share some of the most important things you’ll need to consider should you decide to file a freight claim. So, first and foremost: What is a freight claim? There are alternative words, such as shipping/cargo/ transportation claim or loss and damage claim, and one would file such a […]
Shippers and Buyers Beware: FedEx Ground is Going DIM
Effective January 1, 2015, FedEx Ground services will be upping the ante and applying a DIM weight pricing guide to all their packages, a change that will likely add up for all U.S. shippers and e-commerce customers in the coming the year. dim weight What is DIM? DIM stands for Dimensional Weight. Currently, FedEx Ground […]
FedEx to Find Foothold in Europe with All-Cash Purchase of TNT
$4.8 billion in cash. That’s how much it will take for FedEx to acquire Dutch delivery service TNT and gets its ground game going in over 40 European countries. Already working with a rather respectable air-express delivery system, the U.S. shipping company is hoping to capitalize on the rise and consistent growth of the e-commerce […]
