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The Importance of Dimensional Weight for FedEx’s Weight Calculation
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 checking over your shipments, usually checks the actual weight of an item to determine the shipping cost. However, they will charge you based on the physical dimensions of your package if it goes over a certain allotted size, which they specifically term as dimensional weight. The measurement may still be the same, in kilograms or pounds, but the actual methodology to determining the size in this way is solely through the dimensions of your package. If you utilize the shipping staff to calculate the cost based on the dimensional weight, it can be a very consuming and laborious process. Even worse, it can be prone to multiple errors and can increase overall shipping costs, especially if your company tend to ship hundreds or thousands of packages every month.
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Reducing Costs Through Shipping Comparison Tools
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!
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Source Consulting and Global Logistics Media Partnership
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. Â GLM is a premiere destination website for worldwide logistics news, information and opportunities. Â Along with an in-house team of writers, a host of various industry experts help provide different perspectives and industry knowledge about the logistics community.
How to Make the Most out of Your Shipping Discounts
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. Â Therefore, they create custom, specific shipper strategies for pricing agreements and makes negotiating carrier discounts highly subjective. There are many different factors that the carriers utilize to try and extend a price that is better than the tariff rates.
Reducing Shipping Costs Through Optimizing Carrier Services
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.
Money Saving Shipping Tips and the Importance of a FedEx & UPS Rate Comparison
In order to flourish in today’s tough, hyper-competitive business climate, you need an edge. The place to start, naturally, is by cutting back on expenses. If your business is a major shipper, the fastest (but maybe not most obvious) way to do this is to reduce your shipping costs. If you use either UPS or FedEx, which chances are you do, it’s important to perform a FedEx/UPS rate comparison.
Why Billing Errors Happen & What You Can Do to Combat Them
Billing errors on your shipping invoice may be a surprise to some companies. With the advancements in technology and the automated process of shipments, why would there be errors on UPS and FedEx invoices? The problem is that mistakes do happen and are slipping by those companies that do not realize it.
2012 UPS and FedEx Rate Increase Analysis
UPS and FedEx announced their January 2012 general price increases (GPI). Why is this important? For any company that ships parcels, the GPI will affect your overall shipping costs! As the 2011 GPI showed, there can be substantial impacts on shipping costs resulting from changes to accessorial charges and dimensional weight formulas. The 2012 increases are only announced as averages and can vary greatly from one shipper to the next. Here are a few ways to prepare:
Shipping Rate Negotiation Tactics
Carrier negotiations can be challenging for both the new and experienced shipper. Carrier representatives are well trained and offered high incentives to get your business with the highest shipping rate and most profit possible. Many people go into the negotiation process and have difficulty procuring best in class discounts. There is, however, a method to negotiating with the carriers.