The Shipper’s New Year’s Resolutions
In this article we explore ideas around how you can improve upon what your distribution business did last year to prioritise and plan your freight projects for a bigger, brighter 2020.
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Freight Trends 2020 – 7 Main Disruptors to the Transportation Industry
What will the main trends in transport for the early 2020’s? We’ve compiled a list of the 7 main freight trends for the near future and to provide insights for shippers on how they can stay ahead of the curve.
New Break Bulk Scanning Feature for our Freight Management Software
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.
Why you should have an independent freight management software system
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.
Outsourcing the Management of your Freight Software and Reporting
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…
Automated least cost carrier selection
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…
How an automated consignment consolidation function can save tens of thousands of dollars
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.
5 customer service benefits of an Advance Shipping Notice
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?
Reduce freight costs by up to 20 percent simply through least cost carrier selection
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’…
Why a free freight carrier system, isn’t really free
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.