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By Ken Waddell
ach year seems to go by more quickly than the last, and it seems the time you have to make changes to your small-package shipping operation gets shorter and shorter. You are constantly being challenged to deliver packages more quickly and more efficiently, while
simultaneously staying on top of changing consumer expectations. What you need is to have the right partners by your side to help you with making every step of your supply chain, from order entry to final delivery to returns, less stressful and more profitable. Starting on the next page of this special sponsored issue, you will find the new HOT SUPPLY CHAIN SOLUTION COMPANIES, 34 businesses who are ready and willing to help you take on any challenge facing your small-package supply chain. Whether you are looking for help negotiating your next carrier contract, needing assistance upgrading the equipment in your distribution center, or searching for how to improve your deliveries, the HOT COMPANIES are here to help.
Take a good look at each one of these HOT COMPANIES, visit their websites, check them out on social media, and email or call them with questions. Today is a great time to start making the changes you need for next year and the years to come.
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“We have the best shipping rates possible!” – You (probably)
We have heard this before and will hear it again, but we have yet to find a case where it’s true. Don’t believe us? Then we challenge you to give us a call and try for yourself!
We are so confident that we Guarantee Savings, or we don’t get paid!
Advanced Carrier Technologies has been helping companies reduce their shipping spend for over 20 years. Powered by our proprietary technologies and our industry experts, we average savings of 15-30+% for our clients.
CarrierCop® - Are you positive you are getting the lowest cost and finding every optimization opportunity? We bring our optimization expertise and inside knowledge to help you find hidden profits in your shipping processes and expenses.
PackageCop® - Do you check every line of every parcel invoice? You should, and we will on your behalf, getting you money back when mistakes are found, and giving you the confidence that you are being billed correctly.
FreightCop® - How about freight invoices; are you certain you are paying the correct amount on every single one? We make sure you are, work directly with the carriers when mistakes are found, and we can streamline the payment process for you as well.
Ikea, Domino’s Pizza, Mercedes Benz, Perry Ellis, Misumi, Dayton Progress, Acument Global, Bass Security, Binsons, Exotic Automation, La-Z-Boy; the list goes on and we would be honored to add you to it!
Transportation Benchmarking Services
AFMS stands out as the premier transportation price benchmarking firm in North America and Europe, specializing in reducing transportation costs through precise carrier contract negotiations and automated freight audit and recovery. With a deep understanding of market dynamics, AFMS excels in benchmarking freight rates, ensuring clients secure optimal market discounts and concessions.
The strength of AFMS lies in its seasoned senior management team, boasting over 500 years of combined senior pricing and sales experience from major transportation carriers like UPS, FedEx, and DHL. This extensive background forms the foundation of AFMS’ 32 years of industry success. Their insider knowledge is a key reason why top shippers, including GE, Sony, Disney, Under Armour, StockX, Dell, Honda, Toyota, DSF, Trek, Johnson & Johnson, and Bose, trust AFMS for their benchmarking and pricing needs. Clients typically see a 10-25% improvement in shipping rates when they engage with AFMS.
AFMS also offers cutting-edge electronic invoice auditing and reporting tools, which are among the most advanced in the industry. Their web-based tools provide critically operational insights and comprehensive auditing for billing errors, late deliveries, and other issues. To demonstrate our expertise, AFMS provides a free contract/pricing evaluation and a 30-day test audit, showcasing their commitment to delivering value and improving clients’ logistics efficiency.
AFMS is honored to have supported numerous large and small businesses across the United States, Canada and Europe for over 30 years. It has been our pleasure to assist our clients in achieving best-in-class pricing solutions within their supply chain carrier networks.
Mike Erickson, CEO, AFMS
AFS Logistics applies comprehensive, proven strategies backed by data-driven insights to transform our clients’ transportation operations across four lines of service.
Freight Audit and Payment (FAP)
We are a leader in freight audit and payment — in fact, we’re one of the founders of the industry. Our industry-leading proprietary systems and seasoned experts bring client data to life, extracting strategic insights that uncover cost-saving opportunities and reduce spend. The proof is in the numbers — we process over 4 million freight bills and find over 20,000 errors every week, giving you peace of mind that you’re only paying what you should.
Less-than-Truckload (LTL)
With over $1.2B in annual LTL spend, the unique size and scale of our FAP work generates enormous amounts of data and value that we leverage to optimize your LTL networks. We apply our best-in-class data science and expert negotiation to yield the optimal combination of carriers and service level at the lowest price for your LTL freight. Customized support and our state-of-the-art transportation management system give you visibility, control, and confidence.
Parcel
Our parcel experts draw on decades of experience working for the world’s largest carriers to help AFS clients optimize over $4B of parcel operations and negotiations. We drive out waste, optimize carriers, and inject alternative solutions that you may not have previously considered. Whether we’re identifying billing errors and resolving claims, analyzing carrier contracts, providing negotiation strategies, or auditing and optimizing total parcel spend, we provide actionable solutions in the rapidly evolving parcel world.
Transportation Management
Our team brings extensive experience, technology, and buying power to strengthen your transportation network through managed transportation, freight brokerage, freight forwarding, network design and engineering or 4PL control tower services. With access to over 100,000 proven and vetted carriers, unrivaled data, and our highly skilled team of experts, AFS Transportation Management gives you the competitive advantage you need.
See how efficient and cost-effective your logistics can be. Visit us online at www.afs.net.
At best, the world of today’s transportation buyer is exceptionally complex. At worst, it’s chaotic. Transportation networks are interconnected and require strategic planning and careful execution to manage. Add the challenges of complex pricing models and painfully intricate invoices, and you need reliable, seasoned expertise to ensure the financial and operational success of your logistics.
At a glance
• 42 years of industry-leading experience
• $11B in transportation spend managed annually
• $183M in annual client savings
• > 1,800 clients in 35 countries Tom Nightingale
| CEO
Caljan: Your partner in efficient loading and unloading solutions
With over 60 years of experience and a global presence, Caljan is a trusted name in the loose-loaded goods handling industry. We provide innovative and ergonomic solutions for manual loading and unloading, ensuring efficiency and safety in your operations.
Versatile telescopic conveyors to improve your productivity
Caljan Performer belt telescopic is versatile and future-proof. It can be fitted with any optional function, allowing precise configuration to meet your requirements, whether you aim to improve the work environment or handle mixed cargo. Its unique design can be adapted anytime, making Caljan Performer a long-term investment.
If you’re looking to increase capacity and achieve quick turnaround times, the Caljan Classic might be the perfect solution. This robust, cost-effective conveyor easily handles all types of loose-loaded cargo. Its user-friendly design and excellent safety features improve working conditions and speed up the loading process.
However, if operator efficiency is your biggest challenge, Caljan RollerLoader is the best match. Installed at dedicated loading doors, it uses gravity to move parcels into vehicles, efficiently accumulating parcels along its length and signalling when ready to be emptied. This setup allows operators to load efficiently without wasting time moving between doors.
ErgoRider for better ergonomics and efficiency
The Caljan ErgoRider is an integrated platform and conveyor belt that revolutionizes the loading and unloading of loose-loaded cargo with a Performer telescopic conveyor. Spanning the trailer length, it eliminates the need for floor support and separate drives, navigating seamlessly over different dock setups and uneven floors. By bringing the belt directly to the box, the ErgoRider ensures optimal positioning, significantly reduces lifting distances, and boosts productivity, ensuring that parcels are continuously brought forward, ready for quick and efficient loading.
Learn more about our solutions and how Caljan can transform your loading and unloading operations.
PARCEL AUDITS Reduce parcel costs and save money with the industry’s most advanced and comprehensive package audit program. CTrak’s proven benefits include a completely automated, global audit system that delivers maximized savings. Customized Accounting Services: CTrak provides automation for general ledger account code allocations for every shipment and visibility of details at the shipment level. Complete automation ensures all pricing conditions and costs are rated, including optional bundled pricing rates, for all countries, for all currencies, including hundred weight pricing and third-party shipments.
REPORTING CT’s Qlik Data Analytics and reporting platform delivers graphs, dashboards, and visualization for effective and efficient management insight into your total freight spend.
CONFIDENCE 101 years of experience allows us to create a full range of freight management solutions. CT will work with you, creating customized solutions so that you can focus on your firm’s core competencies, ensuring an efficient, effective, and robust supply chain management system for your global needs.
TRUST Firms of all sizes, including Fortune 100 corporations around the globe, rely on CT Logistics to assist them in making solid, informed decisions regarding their freight audit, payment, and business intelligence needs. Our team of professionals has been instrumental in assisting our clients in leveraging expertise, technology, and best-in-class processes to maximize return on the client’s investment. SOC II and ISO 9001:2015 certified.
LEADERSHIP With FreitRater™, the industry’s first choice for freight management software, AuditPay™, LION™, TranSaver™ and CT’s TMS software, our customized solutions for freight payment and 3PL will exceed your expectations.
CONFIDENCE, TRUST, AND LEADERSHIP... TRADITIONS SINCE 1923 These attributes are woven into our corporate philosophy, the foundation and tradition that our clients have relied on for 101 years. Our evolving services and software will enable you to better manage and reduce supply chain costs while adding more visibility and control to your organization, positively impacting your bottom line; that’s our commitment to you.
Designed Conveyor Systems (DCS), founded in 1982, is a brand-agnostic systems integrator that provides custom full-scale warehouse designs and software solutions. DCS is based in Franklin, Tennessee, and utilizes consulting, engineering design, project management, installation services, and client support to ensure customers can keep their promises to deliver on time.
With the continued rise of e-commerce and the corresponding increase in direct-toconsumer shipments to fill orders of one or two items at a time, having the optimal parcel handling system design for an operation is critical to meeting customers’ expectations. They must incorporate a tightly synchronized collection of automated material handling equipment and technologies that optimize conveyance and sortation of a broad range of parcel sizes, weights, shapes, and packaging materials. They must also deliver accuracy, speed, precision, and flexibility — whether the parcels are cardboard cartons, slippery polybags, padded mailers, or envelopes.
With over 40 years of experience, DCS’ design and engineering team creates unique parcelhandling systems for diverse customer applications. With installations including semiautomated handling in small city distribution centers and fully automated, integrated hubs with advanced conveyor and sorter equipment, DCS routinely thinks outside of the box. While every project is unique, our system design and execution processes are the same, encompassing meticulous attention to detail, frequent communication, and a dedicated partnership with our clients.
If your facility is not currently looking for full integration support but has operational constraints, the DCS consulting team offers a range of services to help your operation address the challenges it faces. In partnership with you, DCS consultants analyze your business data — existing workforce, workflow processes, truck load data, operations, and more — to determine a strategy that best meets your current and future needs, as well as your budget.
info@designedconveyor.com
Automate Your Fulfillment: Leading the Industry in Automated Material Handling Systems Integration
Decades of Excellence: With over six decades of experience, DMW&H has honed a legacy of collaboration, innovation, and unparalleled expertise, consistently working hand-in-hand with clients to deliver cutting-edge material handling solutions that transform their operations. Our commitment to pushing the boundaries of industry norms has made us a trusted partner for those seeking forward-thinking, customized solutions.
End-to-End Solutions: From facility analysis to implementation, we handle it all. Our services encompass solution design, integration, and commissioning. Plus, we offer round-the-clock client support for operational and scalable distribution.
Innovation Driven: DMW&H is constantly reevaluating operational paradigms with new technologies to provide our customers with solutions that give them a competitive advantage.
Customized Solutions for Your Distribution Center: At DMW&H, we understand that every facility is unique. That’s why we specialize in creating tailored solutions that address your specific challenges and set you up for future growth.
Over the last 60 years, DMW&H has been tasked with solving many operational challenges presented by our customers. We’re proud to say that we’ve been able to solve many of those challenges by successfully developing and implementing a myriad of different automated material handling systems. This is a testament to our dedicated staff of experienced engineers, programmers, technicians, project managers, and support staff that are dedicated to our mission to provide bestin-class customer outcomes.
Jim McLafferty, Director, Post & Parcel Sales EXECUTIVE STATEMENT
EasyPost: Revolutionize Your Shipping Operations
Embrace the future of shipping with the industry-leading shipping API that boasts the best uptime in the industry: EasyPost. Designed to optimize your logistics, enhance efficiency, and drive cost savings, our comprehensive solution will transform your shipping operations, reducing operational risks through advanced technology.
Our dedicated team of logistics experts and former carrier managers bring unparalleled expertise that will simplify your parcel shipping and allow you to scale effortlessly with our high-performance enterprise solutions. You’ll experience improved reliability, flexibility to meet your diverse needs, and the scalability you need to grow.
With EasyPost, you can transform your shipping data into actionable intelligence. The platform provides valuable insights into shipping times and costs, helping you identify opportunities to reduce expenses and solve complex logistics challenges. By automating non-productive tasks, EasyPost allows you to focus on delivering exceptional service to your customers.
Our comprehensive suite of services covers all your shipping needs:
Rate Shopping: Compare real-time rates from multiple carriers to find the most costeffective options.
Label Generation: Generate shipping labels for all major carriers with ease.
Tracking: Gain full visibility into your shipments with detailed tracking information.
Address Verification: Ensure accuracy and reduce delivery errors with our address verification tools.
Insurance: Protect your shipments with flexible insurance options.
In addition, we’re committed to sustainability. We ensure that every shipment processed through our Shipping API is 100% carbon neutral by calculating the emissions and purchasing carbon credits, so your customers know you care about the environment.
Why EasyPost?
Market Leadership: Trusted by thousands of businesses, from small startups to Fortune 500 companies, including the world’s largest retailer.
Scalability: Solutions that grow with your business, ensuring long-term success.
Innovation: Continuous updates and improvements keep you ahead of the curve in the ever-evolving shipping landscape.
Partner with EasyPost and revolutionize your shipping operations. Experience the future of logistics today.
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Why Engineering Innovation?
Using our expertise in postal and parcel automation design, Eii develops products that work for any size fulfillment, returns, and mailing operation. We supply innovative products that offer automated processing, maximum postage savings, and excellent service and support.
Our Adaptable, Scalable, Modular Solutions
We offer a diverse range of solutions that cater to various automation needs. Our Lightsort pick and put-to-light series, which is fully customizable and modular, provides an excellent entry point for those just beginning their automation journey. On the other hand, for businesses looking for a fully automated parcel processing solution, our Chameleon is designed to handle even the most complex operations seamlessly. Like its name, the Chameleon is designed to adapt and blend in seamlessly with your existing operations.
The Bottom Line
Since 2006, we have earned our reputation as leaders in the development of automated equipment for pre-sort mailing applications. Our expertise extends to serving commercial mail houses and parcel-handling businesses, where our automation and manifesting solutions for letters, flats, and parcels have been widely embraced. Over the years, we have amassed a wealth of experience and knowledge, honing our abilities to navigate complex postal regulations and optimize site-specific processes.
When you choose Engineering Innovation as your automation partner, you’re not just getting cutting-edge products; you’re partnering with a company that is passionate about transforming your operations, driving efficiency, and delivering results. With our unparalleled processing expertise, dedication to innovation, and personalized approach to each client, we are confident in our ability to provide the optimal automation solutions that will propel your business to new heights. Let us join you on your automation journey, no matter where you are at, by reaching out to us today.
At ePost Global, our experts will easily help you navigate the complexities of international shipping and now have expanded our reach in the domestic market. With our new service domestic eDGE, we can help you grow your business both globally and locally! With reach to over 200 countries, we have the largest network of last-mile carriers to give you the best balance of rates and services. In the constantly evolving landscape of shipping and logistics, ePG stands out with over 25 years of experience and a history of successfully implementing personalized end-to-end solutions. With more options, better service, and tailored solutions to capture more customers, see how ePost Global delivers the total package for your international and domestic e-commerce shipping.
TRIED……TESTED……PROVEN
At EuroSort, we specialize in providing state-of-the-art sorting systems that are proven to meet the rigorous demands of today’s parcel carriers, consolidators, and shippers. Our mission is to deliver high-quality, reliable, and efficient sorting solutions that drive productivity and accuracy.
Proven Excellence
With 20 years of experience and a track record of successful installations for some of the largest postal companies in the world, EuroSort has become synonymous with durability and precision. Whether it’s letters, parcels, or irregularly shaped packages, EuroSort’s technology ensures that every item is sorted quickly and accurately, minimizing errors and maximizing throughput.
Customer-Focused Solutions
Understanding the unique challenges faced by each client, EuroSort offers tailored sorting solutions that maximize throughput while minimizing operational costs. Our team works closely with customers to understand their requirements and provide customized systems that seamlessly integrate into their existing operations. We offer a range of modular options that can be configured to meet the specific demands of different industries, from e-commerce and retail to pharmaceuticals and small parcel shipping. This flexibility ensures that our clients receive a solution that is perfectly aligned with their operational goals.
Industry-Leading Support
We pride ourselves on offering comprehensive support services, from initial consultation and installation to ongoing maintenance and training. EuroSort’s dedicated support team is equipped with the knowledge and expertise to handle any technical challenges, providing timely and effective solutions. Regular maintenance checks, software updates, and training sessions are part of our holistic approach to customer service, ensuring that our clients’ systems run smoothly and efficiently.
Choose EuroSort
Discover why leading parcel companies around the world trust EuroSort for their sorting needs. With our proven track record, cutting-edge technology, and unwavering commitment to customer satisfaction, EuroSort is your partner for success. Whether you are looking to upgrade your current sorting systems or implement a completely new solution, EuroSort has the expertise and technology to transform your operations.
For more information, visit our website or contact our sales team to learn how EuroSort can transform your sorting operations.
FirstMile Is Your All-In-One Parcel Carrier
Experience seamless carrier optimization with FirstMile’s game-changing ship method, Xparcel. Our patented shipping method allows you to effortlessly tap into the best price and service combination for every package across our extensive induction network. Whether you’re a mid-sized retailer or a 3PL, Xparcel empowers you to enhance service quality, reduce costs, and simplify operations with one unified shipping carrier.
Enjoy the power of a comprehensive national, regional, and local carrier strategy all in one automated shipping solution. Take full control of your shipping experience, expenses, and service at every stage of your business. Plus, with our integrated international shipping solutions, expanding into global markets becomes effortless.
Moreover, our commitment to exceptional customer service goes beyond carrier optimization. With FirstMile, you gain full visibility into tracking and billing across all induction partners. Our owned FirstMile fleet and friendly drivers provide reliable and flexible pickups. You’ll benefit from simple-to-read invoicing and a dedicated customer service team. Plus, we offer the best-in-the-industry claims service and more.
Choose FirstMile and experience a shipping solution that elevates your business and exceeds your expectations at every step.
How it works: FirstMile is your carrier, Xparcel is your ship method. Xparcel is a dynamic ship method that adapts and optimizes package routing according to your unique shipping profile and changing market conditions. Say goodbye to shipment delays caused by carrier disruptions or bottlenecks. With Xparcel, you can control spend while ensuring fast shipping, keeping both your customers satisfied and your bottom line healthy.
Getting started is as simple as selecting your shipping speed preferences and Xparcel handles the rest on a per-package basis. Xparcel selects the lowest all-in cost that delivers in your desired transit window for every package shipped. Xparcel considers factors including weight, dimensions, origin, destination, fuel, and assessorials, among other elements.
With FirstMile and Xparcel, managing your shipments is both efficient and seamless, ensuring a positive shipping experience for you and your customers.
https://firstmile.com EMAIL: shipping@firstmile.com
Discover cutting-edge fluid truck loading and unloading solutions with FMH Conveyors, a premier manufacturer of modular and reconfigurable conveyor systems. We understand the need for versatile setup, relocation, and storage solutions to efficiently scale and meet your facility’s needs. Our customized conveyor solutions cater to a diverse range of industries, ensuring that each product is as unique as the companies we serve.
When you partner with FMH Conveyors, you’re choosing a top conveyor manufacturer in North America. Our equipment delivers exceptional performance, matched by our expert team’s service and responsiveness. This commitment to excellence has made us a trusted name in the e-commerce, retail, parcel handling, and distribution sectors.
Our Product Line Includes:
NestaFlex: Flexible Gravity Conveyors
BestFlex: Flexible Powered Conveyors
BestConnect: Rigid Modular Conveyors
Motion06: Curved Belt Conveyors
MaxxReach: Telescopic Belt Conveyors
BestReach: Rigid Drive-Out Conveyors
Aftersort: Rigid Truck Loaders
Litesort: Automated Conveyor and Sortation Systems
In today’s fast-paced e-commerce and distribution environment, speed and efficiency are crucial. Partnering with a conveyor manufacturer that tailors solutions to your specific needs can significantly impact your operations. Our full-service approach includes custom engineering, design solutions, installation, and ongoing service, ensuring maximum ROI.
Our extensive range of conveyor solutions expedites supply chains, integrates automation, and boosts productivity across operations. Whether you need belted, skate wheel, or roller conveyors for truck loading, manufacturing, assembly, order fulfillment, or packaging, FMH Conveyors has you covered.
FMH Conveyors combines the expertise of former companies Flexible Material Handling and Best Conveyors, delivering higher value with an enhanced product portfolio, a team of design and configuration experts, and an expansive service and support network. FMH Conveyors serves the US, Canada, and Latin America, with our manufacturing facility located in Jonesboro, Arkansas.
GLS is the premier direct parcel carrier in the Western United States. Our unparalleled point-to-point service across all the western states ensures packages are delivered 1 to 2 days faster than national integrators, making us the most elite parcel service in the region.
Our robust network ensures quick and reliable delivery within the Western US, making us the top choice for businesses and individuals who need fast, efficient parcel services. Additionally, our strategic alliances allow us to extend our services across the entire country, providing seamless parcel delivery nationwide.
US shippers also benefit from exclusive access to the extensive GLS networks in Canada, Europe, and the UK, giving them a competitive edge in global parcel shipping. Whether you need cross-border or intra-country shipping, GLS has you covered. GLS is the first global regional carrier to exist, offering a unique blend of regional expertise and global reach.
GLS Values
We turn ideas into action. When we see a good idea, we get to work. Test, measure, tune. Repeat.
We think in opportunities. Positive change starts with a bold and open mindset. We stay curious, optimistic, and embrace challenges.
We put people first. People are our priority. We listen and invest in what matters to our customers, partners, and colleagues.
We take ownership. We deliver on our promises, take responsibility for our actions, and only settle once we get the right result.
We care. We’re conscious and considerate — to parcels, people, and the planet.
We’re in it together. Growth comes from collaboration, so we invite different perspectives. Because success tastes better when shared.
For Green Mountain, it isn’t about just uncovering discrepancies or generating one-time savings. Our goal is to serve as your trusted partner, an extension of your team, and your guide for navigating the complexities of the logistics landscape with precision and ease. That “big picture view” is reflected in one of Green Mountain’s core differentiators: the ability to show shippers what is possible and how to achieve more from their shipping network. It’s through the prioritization of taking a proactive stance to the shipping summit that we are able to deliver unparalleled value through innovative solutions.
We’ve got the numbers to prove it. In 2023, Green Mountain generated $362 million in client savings with an average client ROI of 1095%. These figures underscore why we are so valued by our customers who see our unwavering commitment to excellence. If you’re ready to take your rightful place at the top of the shipping summit, get the best results by partnering with the people who know the climb — Green Mountain.
You have aggressive goals on tap for the rest of 2024 and beyond. Let’s work together to make those goals a reality and achieve value for your business. Reach out to our team today to get started.
Freight and parcel management is complex. Billions of dollars and thousands of hours are wasted due to process inefficiencies and disparate, unreliable data.
Intelligent Audit exists to simplify this complexity. Combining proprietary technology with deep industry expertise, Intelligent Audit drives efficiency, offers actionable insights, and arms shippers with industry-leading guidance to ship faster, more cost-effectively, and with fewer exceptions.
Intelligent Audit Drives a High ROI for Their Customers, Helping Them:
Reduce Wasteful Spend and Recover Costs
Achieve Real-Time Spend Visibility
Optimize Their Network
Streamline Carrier Invoice Processing and Cost Allocation
Monitor Carrier Performance
Improve Customer Satisfaction
Intelligent Audit’s Proprietary Solutions:
Freight Audit, Recovery, and BI
Three-way audit with 150+ data points across all global carriers
Best-in-class business intelligence
Emissions reporting
Lost and damaged claims processing
Anomaly Detection
Pattern recognition with machine learning to detect anything out of the ordinary
Actionable insights into your data for better decision making
Modeling Tools
Network Optimization
Parcel Contract Comparison
Advanced Reporting & Analytics
Accruals
SKU-Level Reporting
3PL Buy/Sell Rating
Contract Management
Real-Time Visibility
Professional Services
Payment Solutions with TriumphPay
Go Beyond Freight Audit and Payment
Achieve true optimization through a comprehensive solution, enable strategic transformation of your spend management process, and reduce operational risk through market leadership.
Our experienced team of transportation consultants and former carrier pricing managers brings exceptional expertise to improve operations for the world’s leading brands.
Transform data into actionable intelligence, provide insights into cost savings, significantly reduce expenses, solve complex transportation problems, and eliminate non-productive tasks so you can deliver on time.
Our Services & Solutions:
Global Freight Audit & Payment
Shipment Planning and Execution
Carrier Sourcing & Contract Optimization
Mode Optimization
Bill Processing and Payment Solutions
Proactive Transportation Consulting
myShipINFO® – best-in-class technology
Carbon Emissions Compliance & Reporting
Business Intelligence – Purpose-built for Transportation
Our Expertise:
All modes of transportation – global footprint
Highly experienced team of transportation experts
1,000+ global clients across multiple industries
$12 billion spend managed annually
14+ languages translated; 168 currencies transacted
Celebrating 20 years of success!
For enterprises with dynamic supply chains looking to simplify complex transportation operations. Let’s connect.
Here’s the thing about location data: if it’s not right at the beginning of a shipment, it’s not going to be fixed at delivery. In fact, shipping to an incorrect address could have catastrophic consequences for any business, including missing shipments, wasted resources, and delays leading to angry customers and lost business. But a few simple tools can help you avoid those failures with ease. For example, address autocomplete and real-time address verification at point-of-entry guarantees that you will only store and ship to correct, verified addresses, and geocoding can help with route optimization by giving precise locations for last-mile success.
Since 1985, Melissa has helped companies get address data right, right from the start. Improve the quality of your customer and address data at the beginning to reduce costs, maintain communications, improve customer satisfaction, and increase ROI.
Address Verification
Address verification is an integral part of the parcel shipping and logistics industries. After all, if you can’t verify where your parcel or shipment is to be delivered, it’s not likely to get there on time, or even at all. With our newly enhanced ZIP Data products and our partnership with Global-Z — enabling us to offer a white glove service bureau option — we at Melissa are committed to helping you develop solid customer loyalty and efficient operations with access to high-quality, fit-for-purpose address verification solutions, including:
Updating
Identifying customers that have moved before you mail or ship helps reduce undeliverable mail and returned shipments. Melissa can update the US and Canadian addresses in your list quickly to reduce unnecessary packaging, wasted postage, and shipping delays.
Standardization
Standardizing your addresses to a specific postal format helps reduce errors. Melissa works with postal authorities across the globe and can verify and standardize addresses for over 240+ countries and territories.
Verification of Accuracy and Completeness
Not all inaccurate or incomplete addresses are junk. Our advanced parsing and matching algorithms can identify addresses that can be corrected and/or completed. We can even verify millions of real addresses serviced by private delivery companies like FedEx® and UPS®, but not delivered to by the USPS®
Fraud Prevention
One of the popular ways fraudsters try to escape payment is by having a package sent to the wrong address. Melissa makes this kind of behavior less likely to succeed by cross matching an address to an individual. Once the information is verified, you (and your customer) can rest assured that the products are sent to the right person at the right place.
Delivering Success
Melissa’s address verification solutions are available as Web APIs, software, and integrations for leading CRM and e-commerce platforms. We offer SLAs, international customer service (including after-hours support), and a 120-Day ROI Guarantee. We invite you to see how Melissa can help your business deliver success to and for your valued customers.
Sort Fast. Sort Accurately.
NPI designs highly efficient sortation systems engineered to improve productivity, reduce labor, and enhance operational efficiency. From small parcel sortation including poly bags, boxes, and flats to large carton sortation, NPI sortation systems are fast and accurate — providing 3PLs, consolidators, and warehouse operations with the all-in-one solution they need to stay ahead of the curve.
High-Volume Small-to-Medium-Sized Parcel Sortation
NPI’s Xstream sorts up to 24,000 packages per hour with the ability to sort a wide variety of parcel shapes and sizes. Its unique parcel singulation process and dual-lane design allow it to accurately sort parcels at a high throughput rate with 99% uptime.
Fast Parcel Sortation with a Small Footprint
The Xstream Compact is specifically engineered to sort parcels quickly and accurately within a small footprint. Utilizing as little as 2,500 square feet of floor space, the Xstream Compact sorts up to 10,000 parcels per hour — a perfect solution for e-commerce and pharmaceutical companies with lower volume sortation needs.
Large Carton Warehouse Sortation Systems
Sort large cartons at a high speed of 600 feet per minute with the Xstream XL Warehouse Sortation System. Designed for warehouse operations and distribution centers, it accurately sorts cartons to conveyor spurs or chutes and integrates with NPI or thirdparty equipment. Like NPI’s other sortation systems, the XL is modular, boasts 99% uptime, and features an industry-best install time in as little as 5 weeks.
Over 45 Years Manufacturing Automated Sortation Systems
We understand our customers’ needs. Whether you require a compact sortation system for small to medium-sized packages or a robust solution for large cartons and products, we’ve got you covered. Partner with us for a seamless transition to efficient automation and elevate your warehouse operations.
Are you looking for an efficient parcel sortation system for your business? Visit www.npisorters.com or email us at sales@npisorters.com
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Reach your customers faster with the largest 1- and 2-day ground delivery footprint for e-commerce.
Reach your customers faster with the largest 1- and 2-day ground delivery footprint for e-commerce.
Save up to 30% on fast last-mile delivery to the Midwest and beyond.
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How do leading brands and shippers win with OnTrac?
Reach 70% of the US population across 35 states and Washington, DC.
Diversify your carrier mix with a proven alternative.
Heartland shippers can now boost their bottom line with fast and affordable Ground delivery from OnTrac. Add OnTrac to your parcel logistics strategy and get the bigcompany abilities you expect and the small-company service you enjoy. It’s innovative tracking technology, efficient material handling, and an exceptional service experience for less!
As national carriers continue to prioritize profits, retailers finally have a supportive, long-term partner that can facilitate growth and offer nationwide coverage, speed, cost-savings, and reliability.
Acquire customers and build brand loyalty with faster delivery at a lower cost.
Delight customers with Visual Proof of Delivery (vPOD) and SMS notifications of delivery attempts.
Start shipping and saving faster with seamless technology integration options.
Learn how the growing OnTrac delivery network can help you meet your customers’ faster delivery expectations while protecting your margins. Visit ontrac.com or email us at sales@ontrac.com.
OnTrac WEBSITE: www.ontrac.com
EMAIL: sales@ontrac.com
Your eCommerce Parcel Shipping Partner
For more than 20 years, OSM Worldwide has helped eCommerce businesses deliver packages quickly and reliably with reduced shipping costs. We are parcel expediting experts who will identify the fastest, most affordable way to ship your packages, ensuring your customers come back again and again. Our consultative approach to onboarding, processing and delivery, creates customized shipping solutions to meet your needs and help move your business forward.
Shipping Services
The OSM Premium Network® processes your packages using optimized routes that reduce transit times and lower your total cost of shipping. Simple invoicing, along with our OSMART technology platform — which provides 24/7 access to eBOLs, reports, tracking information, and more — makes it easy to manage both domestic and international shipping. Our services are ideal for eCommerce companies or any business that depends on reliable parcel delivery and fair pricing.
98% of packages delivered in 2-5 days
Data tools and integrations to elevate your operations
Certified CarbonNeutral® company
Dynamic Client Collaboration
In a category where carriers dictate shippers’ terms, we challenge the status quo. We’re adaptive to our clients’ needs but will not compromise our commitment to them. With an agile, data-driven approach, we consistently seize opportunities and embrace challenges, working hard to earn our customers’ business and trust every day.
Find out how OSM Worldwide’s shipping solutions can help drive your business forward.
Paccurate - The Parcel Packing Intelligence Platform.
When fulfillment costs rise, having perfectly packed shipments doesn’t just make for happier customers, it’s a competitive advantage. With decades of experience in parcel fulfillment, Paccurate provides a software platform that identifies the perfect carton or mailer sizes for every operation, and gives total control over how they’re packed in real time.
PacSimulate
Simulate changes across your operation to determine the impact before implementation.
PacSimulate is a unique and powerful tool allowing you to simulate millions of parcel shipments to:
Identify which cartons or mailers to add or remove from your lineup, or start from scratch and determine your optimal seasonal or year-round mix.
Predict the cost and environmental impact of on-demand packaging machines, and determine where to most effectively deploy them in your operation.
Evaluate the downstream impact of changes to your SKU mix, accurate to the cubic millimeter.
PacAPI
There’s a reason the top three retailers’ cartonization patents all reference Paccurate’s — this packing decision engine is the most sophisticated and flexible ever built. Unlike legacy solutions, PacAPI considers your real-world costs (including materials, labor, even the obscure breakpoints in your unique carrier rates) to find the optimal way to pack every order. Display or print helpful 3D instructions at your pack stations, or make your on-demand packaging machines smarter. Best of all, it’s easy to integrate with an existing shopping cart, WMS, and other systems so you can immediately reduce Scope-3 emissions, product damages, and transportation costs.
Save money, delight your customers, and ship sustainably with Paccurate.
ProShip Multi-Carrier Shipping Software
The last shipping software you’ll ever need.
High-volume shippers trust ProShip, the industry-leading global provider of automated multi-carrier shipping software for parcel, to ensure their supply chain is equipped to handle whatever challenges peak season may bring. With cutting-edge technology and unparalleled processing speed, ProShip’s shipping solution will automate your supply chain workflow, propelling your parcel shipping operations to success within one carrieragnostic system.
ProShip serves the top companies across the country from retail, manufacturing, healthcare, and third-party logistics industries as the number-one in parcel shipping speed, compliance, reliability, and support. With simple carrier connectivity and high flexibility, ProShip offers complex features and functions using unified business logic, empowering brands with successful parcel shipping strategies.
How top brands win with ProShip:
Choice and Control: ProShip offers choice in pricing structure, feature modules, and business rule customization to fit your business’s specific needs. This tailored approach ensures that your unique shipping requirements and brand considerations are met, adapting to rapidly changing environments with precision. Additionally, ProShip offers unmatched operational control for shippers who want to execute shipping their way, shipping on-premise, via an API, or a combination of both. We encourage you to ship by your preferred methods, and we will provide the necessary guidance along the way.
Versionless Architecture: ProShip’s versionless software offers continuous, automatic updates without downtime, made possible by its Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) approach. Unlike versioned software that requires costly, timeconsuming upgrades, ProShip ensures seamless, manageable updates that maintain system stability and compliance. This model enhances operational efficiency, prevents product sunsets, and provides quick resolution times for issues.
Flexibility: ProShip’s solution offers invaluable flexibility, fully adaptable to fit seamlessly into any Enterprise Software Stack (ESS), integrating to your WMS, OMS, ERP, and automation solutions. ProShip molds to your unique parcel logistics strategies, growing with your business as your shipping needs evolve. This flexibility ensures that ProShip can handle the dynamic demands of your operations, providing a robust solution that remains effective and efficient over time.
Reveel is a Parcel Shipping Intelligence Platform that empowers companies to take control of their parcel shipping strategy with innovative shipping technology powered by AI.
As the only Parcel Spend Management (PSM) 2.0 shipping intelligence platform, Reveel’s technology transforms complex data into actionable insights using advanced analytics, modeling and simulation, statistical analysis, and near real-time reporting. What used to take weeks — or months — using costly parcel consultants can now be completed in-house in a matter of minutes.
Whether you’re managing day-to-day operations, in the middle of your carrier agreement, or about to renegotiate, Reveel’s easy-to-use solutions put you in control of your shipping.
The key highlights of Reveel’s platform include:
Advanced Shipping Analytics & Insights
Reveel’s parcel shipping analytics solution takes complex shipping invoice data, normalizes it, and then presents it in an easily digestible way. Measure and track critical metrics within the 8 key performance areas: service spend, surcharge spend, average cost per shipment, shipping weight, minimum charges, on-time performance, time in transit, and average zone.
Carrier Contract Management & Optimization
Reveel empowers organizations to work more effectively with carriers to create an optimal agreement that fits their unique shipping profiles — without needing to hire outside help. Our software optimizes your agreement by continuously monitoring revenue tiers and discount expirations so you never miss out on a discount again.
Parcel Audit & Recovery
$1.25 billion worth of credits owed by UPS and FedEx go unclaimed annually — how much of that money is yours? Reveel’s software analyzes shipping invoices and recovers every credit you’re owed by your carrier, for free. Never get overcharged by a carrier again.
Finance Automation
Make more informed decisions and close the books faster. Reveel’s finance automation solution allows organizations to automate General Ledger coding, manage costs with order matching, and seamlessly integrate carrier billing data.
Modeling and Simulation
Automatically create digital models of your carrier agreements and use real shipment data to run simulations of different scenarios easily within the Reveel platform. Compare carrier agreements side by side to ensure you’re making the most cost-effective choice and model the General Rate Increase (GRI) impact to accurately forecast next year’s spend.
EXECUTIVE STATEMENT
“Shipping performance can mean the difference between gaining or losing market share. Rate increases are particularly detrimental in highly competitive markets where margins are low. When rates rise, shippers are forced to make tough decisions between eating the costs, passing them along, or diversifying their shipping. Here at Reveel, we’re dedicated to eliminating the complexity and confusion around modern carrier agreements and delivering the data and decision support tools that shippers need to optimize their shipping spend.”
Josh Dunham, Co-Founder/CEO, Reveel
Revolutionizing Dimensioning Processes
At Rice Lake Weighing Systems, we develop and manufacture dimensioning solutions for every warehouse and shipping need — from small to large packages, long flats, pallets, LTL freight, poly bags, and unboxed items including inbound objects for item master data. Our expertise in designing logistics solutions is supported by our proven history as a leader in the weighing, measurement, and process control industry.
Automatic dimensioning is essential for many companies, especially those transitioning from manual, time-consuming processes to modern, streamlined operations. Dimensioners can increase efficiency and package throughput while reducing chargebacks and extra fees from carriers.
Changing Classification Rules for Shipping Pallets and LTL Freight
As of August 5, 2023, the National Motor Freight Classification (NMFC) system is consolidating material classifications into simpler density-based classes. As a shipper, you need accurate dimensions and weights to determine density and correctly quote freight carrier costs. Rice Lake’s easy-to-use automatic dimensioning systems can help ensure you’re accurately quoting freight shipments.
Our Dimensioning Technology Leads the Industry
Instant scans. Cuboidal and irregular parcels are dimensioned quickly without the risk of human error. In an industry-leading 250 milliseconds or less, you can record dimensions of parcels with any shape.
Certified accuracy. All Rice Lake iDimension® parcel and freight systems are NTEP and OIML certified for use in Legal for Trade applications.
Full data integration. iDimension systems allow you to save dimensions, weight, and package images to CSV files and populate data in PC applications. With multiple network integration options, every facility can access their iDimension data.
Straightforward interface. Our simple operator interface is used on every model of the iDimension product line, reducing training requirements and improving operator efficiency.
Rice Lake Weighing Systems is a global leader in the manufacture and distribution of weight-based and measurement solutions. With a focus on innovative, quality products and legendary customer service, Rice Lake offers the industry’s largest selection of personalized solutions to meet any requirement.
Automate Complex Parcel Routing, Rating, Fulfillment, Shipping, and Returns Decision Making at the Speed of eCommerce.
No-code Instructions
High Speed Rating Engine
Planning & Simulations
Label & Forms
Designer
Sustainability & Cartonization
3PL Community Management
Exception Notifications
Eliminate buggy, hard-coded programming. Enable business users to configure impactful rules in minutes, instead of weeks.
You don’t have to rely on slow, unreliable carrier rating APIs. Sendflex processes 20,000 rates and times in transit per second.
Generate plans and “what-if” simulations to measure cost, delivery performance and ROI impact. Protect your tiered carrier incentives.
Apply instructions to control when, where and how to print customer branded labels, forms, notifications, and documents.
Reduce carbon, waste, and unexpected dimensional weight adjustments with Sendflex packing and shipping optimization.
3PLs and eCommerce platforms can set up, configure, and control sub-tenant roles, permissions, and optimization instructions.
Receive proactive tracking notifications for delivery exceptions Make and keep customer delivery promises.
ShipNetwork is a 3PL built for direct-to-consumer e-commerce brands. Our nationwide shipping and fulfillment network reduces transit times and transportation costs to benefit the customer experience and your business’s bottom line. Our proprietary shipping method optimizes every package shipped to deliver on time and on budget, every time. Plus, we stand by our operational excellence, so you can bet on exceptional service year-round.
Nationwide Fulfillment Center Network
Strategically located facilities across the US and Canada bring you closer to your customers, resulting in reduced transit times and lower shipping costs. With a nationwide fulfillment center network, businesses gain the agility and scalability required to meet growing demands and handle peak seasons with ease.
100% Order Accuracy, Guaranteed
We take great pride in our unwavering commitment to order accuracy. Every order is shipped in the right SKUs and right quantities within one business day, without exception. In the rare event of any mistakes, we take full responsibility and bear the costs.
98% Same-Day Shipping
Our commitment to rapid shipping allows you to meet tight deadlines, exceed customer expectations, and stay ahead in today’s competitive market. Nearly all orders received are shipped on the same day, and the remaining are guaranteed to ship by the following business day.
1-2 Day Ground Shipping
Our nationwide fulfillment center network allows us to reach 98% of the United States in 1-2 days via ground shipping. We maintain full control over our facilities and ensure consistent training across our warehouse teams, guaranteeing operational excellence regardless of where your orders ship from.
Optimize 100% of Your Shipping Volume
Simplify your shipping decisions with Xparcel, a robust shipping method that delivers the best combination of price and service for every package shipped. Xparcel analyzes weight, dimensions, origin, destination, fuel, and assessorials to find the lowest allin cost for deliveries within a defined transit window across our extensive network of induction partners.
SiftedAI: The Leading Logistics Intelligence Tech
Sifted provides Logistics Intelligence software and predictive analytics tools for parcel shippers of all sizes, equipping customers with the tools and data-driven insights to continuously calibrate, automate, and monitor their shipping spend, carriers, and contracts.
SiftedAI, its core product, offers a holistic approach, ensuring that no cost-saving opportunity is missed. The software transcends traditional consulting-based approaches, which narrowly focus on carrier contract negotiation and invoice auditing, providing 3,000+ businesses peace of mind that their parcel operation is efficient and proactively managed.
With hard dollar ROI and unparalleled transparency into performance, shippers gain access to five key solutions: Profile Monitoring, Scenario Modeling, Carrier Management, Accounting Automation, and Reporting and Analytics — a tectonic shift from traditional consultancies.
Profile Monitoring
Always on monitoring across all of your cost-sensitive KPIs.
Scenario Modeling
Test strategic investment decisions out in a virtual sandbox before spending a dime.
Carrier Management
Monitor your volume discounts, model carrier proposals, and ensure you’re being charged the agreed upon rates.
Accounting Automation
Automate the manual and error prone processes.
Reporting & Analytics
Use data to your advantage — and report on what matters to you, your business and your boss the most.
Every fraction of your expenses counts. Refine and optimize your shipping budget to scale your business and supply chain — with SiftedAI.
Sparck Technologies Fit-to-size Automated Packaging Electrify efficiency with up to 1,100 perfectly sized boxes per hour
In e-commerce fulfillment, companies face the challenge of increasing throughput while keeping costs low. Packaging, a step in the fulfillment process that is typically performed manually by employees, could instead be efficiently handled by fit-to-size automated packaging solutions, increasing productivity and reducing cost.
Sparck provides companies with cutting-edge automated packaging solutions that streamline fulfillment operations. By offering flexibility, precision, and efficiency, Sparck empowers brands to meet the demands of modern consumers while enhancing operational control and driving success in the competitive e-commerce landscape.
Why companies choose Sparck for success:
Reduce Labor Expenses: Automated packaging solutions, such as Sparck’s CVP Impack and CVP Everest, help companies save an average of 88% in labor costs by eliminating up to 20 packing stations. These machines can box up to 1,100 orders per hour with just two operators, alleviating the stress and strain of finding suitable labor, which is particularly challenging during peak periods.
Reduce Shipping Volume: Automated packaging solutions optimize shipping volume by producing right-sized parcels that fit the specific dimensions of each order. This approach eliminates the need for void fill materials and oversized packaging, resulting in up to a 50% average reduction in shipping volume and a significant decrease in DIM weight charges.
Reduce Material Spend: Designed to use less packing and corrugate material, automated packaging solutions significantly lower material costs by using custom-fit parcels that eliminate the need for larger-than-required packages and void fill materials. With autoboxing, companies can save an average of 29% on corrugate spend and an average of 38% less on material costs. Additionally, right-sized packaging ensures that each parcel is optimally packed, reducing the risk of damage during transit and further lowering costs associated with returns and replacements.
Automated packaging stands out as a crucial factor for success in the ever-evolving e-commerce industry. To learn how you can streamline your packaging operations, visit sparcktechnologies.com/us.
EMAIL: info@sparcktechnologies.com
TransImpact is a supply chain technology firm that creates solutions to maximize results and create a competitive advantage for our customers in three key areas:
Parcel Spend Management
TransImpact pairs the most experienced parcel experts in the industry with the best decision intelligence and data analytics technology to help clients negotiate the strongest parcel discounts available while maintaining visibility across their shipping network. We understand how saving on your parcel shipping directly affects your bottom line. And using our proprietary rating engine, we always find savings. TransImpact has successfully coached thousands of clients through small parcel contract negotiations and collectively saved them more than $1 Billion, with typical savings between 15%-40%.
Parcel SaaS
Parcel Spend Intelligence analyzes the data, giving you complete visibility into your parcel spend. By uncovering the unanticipated and avoidable costs, every company can make confident decisions to reduce expenses while holding carriers accountable.
Parcel Margin Analysis provides managers with the true profit margin on each product sold, considering gross margin, the total transportation expense required to service the order, and revenue capture in the order process.
Parcel Cost Variance calculates your total expected cost vs. invoiced amount difference by amount and percentage, as well as order count and billed to customer total vs. invoiced amount, so you can quickly find the source of any unexpected costs.
Together, these solutions provide an always-on platform to optimize your parcel operation, empowering you with superior decision-making for overall margin improvements within 3–5 clicks.
Demand Planning & Inventory Management
Supply chain optimization has never been more critical, and the post-pandemic market environment remains chaotic. It takes accurate and up-to-date information to keep your supply chain operating at its best, minimize risks, and maximize profits. With our Avercast supply chain planning products, your company gains the most precise forecasting and demand planning solutions available. Utilizing more than 280 algorithms, our products are hand-tailored to fit your business, ERP, and reporting requirements.
TransImpact offers a combination of highly intelligent decision-support technologies and our people’s market expertise. We are relentless in our drive for bottom-line impact and turning our clients into raving fans.
Transportation Insight (TI) offers comprehensive supply chain management services from port to porch. With over $12.7 billion in freight under its management, the company has the resources and experience to optimize the shipping process for businesses of all sizes. Its proprietary reporting and execution tools, combined with deep industry expertise, bring value to companies of all shapes and sizes.
With scalable solutions, TI takes a collaborative approach to managing transportation across all modes through contract design and negotiation support, audit and payment, outsourced transportation planning and spend management powered by business intelligence and technology. TI’s Parcel solution provides businesses with access to data, visibility and expertise powered by advanced technology to optimize your parcel strategy.
Parcel Spend Management: TI’s Parcel Spend Management team acts as an extension of its clients’ teams, bringing specialized attention to parcel spend, strategy and service improvements with a proactive approach based on market changes/volatility and customer needs.
Parcel Audit & Payment: TI’s parcel audit uses advanced technologies to mirror carrier systems, resulting in the industry’s most detailed and accurate parcel audit. These systems monitor every transaction for billing errors and applicability. This data is reviewed by TI’s audit team for claims processing, including a holistic rate audit and lost and damaged claim processing for content value up to $100 limit plus shipping and handling. Monitoring vendor and shipping compliance proactively mitigates expenses and allows clients to focus on growing their business.
Parcel Contract Design: TI’s team of consultants bring analytical clarity to your transportation strategy through designing a best in class parcel program including factors like time in transit, rates and carrier selection. The team continues to maximize opportunity and provide data-driven results during the life of the engagement by cost mitigation strategy and continues improvement with contract design.
BI & Reporting: Through TI’s proprietary tools Beon Insight and Beon Commerce, users gain access to detailed analytics across modes to drive cost-effective decision making. With parcel-specific dashboards, reporting and APIs, Beon Commerce quickly transforms data into actionable insights with dynamic, easy-to-use information via direct carrier integration and real-time data cadence at the order, package and SKU level.
EXECUTIVE STATEMENT
“The parcel market has become synonymous with volatility in the past two years. In addition to the usual annual general rate increases that shippers expect, the most leveraged carriers have made additional changes that have resulted in price impacts of another two points. The complexity of small package has expanded to a level never seen before which creates challenges, but those challenges can result in opportunities. Shippers need to be taking advantage while they can. TI leverages custom-built systems, data-driven analytics and expertise over thousands of scenarios to help our customers proactively drive continuous improvement across the areas of cost mitigation, service improvements and carrier utilization. TI is a competitive advantage for our customers’ supply chains.”
Robyn Meyer, SVP of Parcel Strategy & Solutions
5 ways to cut costs at every mile. Shippers are facing major challenges as small parcel costs increase, budgets shrink, and more customers expect free shipping. Carriers are adding and increasing surcharges on top of rising annual rates, resulting in higher costs and greater pressure on shippers’ budgets. Meanwhile, corporate expectations are to hold the line on costs and maintain service levels while offering free shipping. So, what can companies do to get a handle on the last mile? These five steps are an important place to start.
1. Get visibility into the entire supply chain. We all know shipping isn’t free, but customers increasingly expect not to pay for it. That’s why businesses need to understand the true allocated cost per package. Business intelligence that allows a holistic look at the supply chain enables shippers to understand details that, over time, can make a serious impact on shipping budgets.
2. Focus on financial validation. Using a fully automated process, shippers can break down freight costs and assign GL codes. Essential for tracking costs, GL coding can be a key component of fraud prevention. Marrying carrier data with shipper data allows shippers to look for any misuse of the account.
3. Identify opportunity with proactive account management. Smart information management is key to streamlining processes and cutting costs. However, disparate systems and lack of resources to analyze data often means improvement opportunities are missed. U.S. Bank Freight Payment makes small parcel data manageable with easyto-use reporting functionality and proactive account management
4. Audit all shipments. While many companies only spot-check small parcel shipments, it’s essential to audit every package that’s sent to ensure overpayments aren’t being made and to capture the data needed for internal review. To do this correctly requires a true small-parcel rating engine that audits every package. If a package arrives late or damaged, we’ll know, and fees can be recovered.
5. Move toward automation. This final step enables the previous four, so it’s essential for any shipper. Manual processes are time-consuming, more error prone, and make data analysis nearly impossible. A partner like U.S. Bank Freight Payment can automate your small parcel and large freight processing, streamlining data feeds from multiple carriers’ systems.
VITRONIC Machine Vision is the world’s leading innovation driver for industrial image processing. VITRONIC develops forward-looking solutions of specialized products and software for image-based identification, quality inspection, and process optimization.
VITRONIC offers data collection and parcel sorting in an end-to-end Auto-ID logistics solution. Auto-ID solutions handle the efficient recording and integration of data in warehouses and logistics centers throughout the world, and VITRONIC has been supporting major logistics operations in North America with our Auto-ID solutions since 1999.
The logistics sector is facing pressure due to several factors, simultaneously. These pressures include high shipment volumes at peak times, increased costs, and a shortage of trained staff. Process optimization and greater automation are essential to remain competitive and relevant in the marketplace. The VIPAC family of automated shipment capturing systems from VITRONIC makes significant contributions to your logistics automation processes.
VITRONIC has an expanded portfolio of offerings that provide a complete dimensioning, weighing, and scanning solution for logistics automation, whether items are on pallets, boxes, bags, or unpackaged goods. Intelligent, modular sorting systems, like the VIPAC Small Sort, combine the collection of shipment data and automatic sorting, together in one end-to-end solution.
Huge amounts of data are generated when capturing shipment information, which can be used to optimize logistics operations and processes and remove bottlenecks and sources of error. Our portfolio of software and hardware solutions equips you with all the tools you need.
Collaboration with our customers allow them to fully exploit technological capabilities and process efficiencies. Joint success forms the basis of long-term relationships with companies like BMW, Daimler, DHL, UPS, Toll Collect, Fresenius, and Sanofi, as well as public sector clients.
Since its foundation in 1984, VITRONIC has consistently grown, with operations on five continents and over 80 countries with over 1,400 employees. VITRONIC systems are developed and produced in Wiesbaden, Germany, and VITRONIC North America’s headquarters is based in Louisville, KY.
For more than two decades, Zero Down Supply Chain Solutions has committed to reducing transportation and supply chain expenses for our customers. With our unique consultative approach and proprietary FreightOptics technology suite, we point out the hidden expenses and erroneous charges hiding in balance sheets — all with minimal time or effort from the client.
Whether companies are looking to us for auditing, business intelligence, supply chain optimization, transport management system deployment, or a combination, we’re ready to deliver with a unique perspective. We dig deep into transportation and freight costs and pull out unbiased, in-depth, and actionable data that lets our clients decide on the best course of action for them.
We serve every mode of transportation and shipping — courier, small parcel, less than truckload, truckload, international ocean and air as well as ocean contracts. However companies conduct their business, we have the answers to help them optimize their costs.
What defines Zero Down?
Zero Down is built on the combination of IT excellence and supply chain experience. Here’s how we provide value as a partner organization:
Industry-leading expertise
Despite our tech-driven nature, we’re not new here. Our team boasts decades of supply chain experience, and our tactics and processes match our dedication to advanced systems. We know just how important it is to safeguard the bottom line, and we’re ready to put our tried-and-true skills to work, saving clients time and money.
Guaranteed results
The Zero Down commitment to limiting costs and delivering optimization runs so deep that we’re prepared to guarantee our effectiveness. Either our efforts save a client money, or we don’t get paid. The systems that we’ve built around our proprietary software are reliable enough to stake our own profits on them.
Advanced automation
Unfortunately, logistics professionals often dedicate too much time and effort to repetitive manual tasks such as validating and allocating invoices. Zero Down’s approach, powered by the FreightOptics platform, automates these processes, so employees are free to get back to their value-adding work.
“Today’s businesses need supply chain partners that can really put technology to work for them. But more than that, they need to work with organizations that fundamentally understand logistics, freight and shipping. At Zero Down Supply Chain Solutions, we’re proud to offer both sides of the coin. We’re relentless about finding ways to save our clients money through a close look at the data, because we know how much those opportunities matter in this industry.”
Brad McBride, Founder & CEO EXECUTIVE STATEMENT