This Simple Technique can Reduce Your Shipping Charges

This Simple Technique can Reduce Your Shipping Charges | LoadProof

This best practice we are going to discuss is called as rate shopping. The rate shopping can be done for both parcel and the (Less than Load) LTL. I mean the parcels are the small boxes that they ship mostly as Ecom orders. Sometimes they also ship retail orders as parcels from the distribution center to the final destination. In Ecom orders it will be a consumer that’s buying product, they place an order on the web or from their mobile device.

In the LTL scenario it will be a wholesale B2B customer that you will be shipping order to, which can be done with rate shopping. If you want to ship your LTL order next day or second day with regular ground, based on that service level you can configure all the rates. You can get FedEx rates or FedEx as a partial service. You can get UPS Parcel Service rates, DHL parcel service rates and the USPS service rates. You can put it in the system with origin i.e the location of your facility and your destination based on this origin. Based on the destination, based on the number of boxes which happens typically after cartonization and the waving process.

I mean we can even talk about the waving process. Eventually the cartons are created based on the number of items that need to be fit within these boxes and after choosing the best box, you can perform rate shopping for this box that is to be shipped from the origin to the destination. This can be spread across three or four parcel carriers for that service level. Let’s say that the customer chose the service level they need when they placed an order.

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