Do you, or are you considering using a break bulk pallet method for transporting your freight? Read on to learn about our new freight software module and logistics capabilities for this process.
In this article we explain why using a freight management software tool that enables centralised multi carrier dispatching saves time and money and provides valuable information on your freight data, making it more cost effective than a free carrier freight system.
You can’t manage what you don’t measure, but how many companies are putting the effort in to truly optimise their freight processes and margins? And if you don’t get around to assigning this critical business requirement to an internal resource, what is the true cost? How will you know that your business is making the right…
What if you felt comfortable saying to the Director “I guarantee that I can lower our freight costs by 15%”? Can you imagine yourself doing that? Let me help you get there. Read about our modern process which optimises your transport carrier management through technology that provides amazing accuracy on results, giving you peace…
It is with great pride and satisfaction that the team at Freight Controller can now announce the completion of our initial testing of our Consignment Status and DIFOT, (Delivered In Full On Time), Report. This development has been a long time in the making and taken many, many hours of negotiating, development and testing.
We now have the exciting ability for distributors to estimate the delivery cost of a courier or taxi truck delivery and compare it to the traditional Local Overnight delivery of the parcel carriers with a click of a button. This opens up new possibilities in the management of your freight processes that will allow you to maintain service levels…
Does your dispatch system allow for automated consolidation of consignments? There are substantial freight savings for those who have more than one order per day to the same receiver. Read on to learn how one of our clients saved $50,000 per annum purely on this function of a third party carrier dispatching tool.
We’ve found 5 main customer service benefits that every day shippers (and their receivers) can gain when they implement an Advance Shipping Notice tool for their consignments. Do you agree with our list; what would you add?
Our technology allows us to look at all the options quickly and efficiently to find out the best way of managing your transport carriers for your individual freight profile. You may be surprised to learn that volume discounts do not necessarily trump niche carriers for reducing your freight costs. Read this article to learn why.
Many shippers are looking for a way to improve their freight carrier selection processes without this negatively impacting the time it takes to process orders in the warehouse. Read this article to find out how modern software tools can price consignments with greatly variable pricing structures within the ‘blink of an eye’…
This article discusses the advantages of coastal shipping over rail and road such as greatly reduced freight costs, reduction in damages and benefits for over-dimensional and heavy freight over rail and road. When sending non time-critical freight from the Eastern seaboard to the West in particular you should consider coastal shipping.
With the exponential growth occurring in technologies these days we can all point to an example of a system that is free, whether that be a free CRM platform, free texting, free social media, free mobile apps and so on. And in the freight industry you can draw a bow from this to the free carrier systems that are available to shippers when they sign a contract to use their rates and services. But are they really free? We would argue they are not, let us explain.
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