General Rate Increase: Save Money on Shipping As Rates Rise
Find out the size of the 2024 parcel shipment general rate increase and learn how to keep your logistics costs low.
4 Tips for Negotiating Freight Rates
From using the right technology to taking a systematic approach to negotiations, here are four freight negotiation recommendations.
Navigating the 2024 FedEx and UPS Rate Increases with Zero Down’s General Rate Increase Technology Tool (GRITT)
As we step into 2024, businesses across the globe are facing a familiar challenge in the shipping industry – the annual rate increases by FedEx and UPS. This year, both carriers have announced an average rate hike of 5.9%, a figure that, while seemingly straightforward, masks a more complex reality. Understanding these nuances is crucial […]
What Is Transportation Spend Management?
Learn the principles behind transportation spend management and discover how it can promote visibility, efficiency and cost-effectiveness.
Parcel Spend Management: Get Control of Your Costs
Find out how a modern approach to parcel spend management can rein in this potentially costly area of your supply chain budget.
Parcel Contract Negotiation: Optimize Your Company’s Shipping Costs
Learn how much money you can save by effective small parcel carrier negotiation, and find out how this process works.
How the UPS-Teamster Deal Impacts Shipping Costs for Businesses
UPS and the Teamsters Union have avoided a work stoppage and signed a new contract — what could that mean for your upcoming shipping expenses?
Streamlining Supply Chain Operations With Cutting-Edge Business Intelligence and Data Insights
Learn what business intelligence and analytics can mean for the supply chain, and discover how these solutions have evolved to deliver ever-greater value.
Unraveling the Chain: The Lingering Disruptions in 2023’s Global Supply Chain
Discover some of the lingering and new issues you’ll have to overcome to run an efficient organization-wide supply chain in 2023 and beyond.
The Power of Big Data Analytics in the Supply Chain
Learn how the right approach to data use and business intelligence can deliver previously invisible value to your logistics operations.
E-Commerce Surge: A Catalyst for Supply Chain Transformation
E-commerce has expanded enormously in the past few years. Have you optimized your company’s supply chain relationships in that time?
Covid-19 is Now Endemic, but GSR Waivers Shouldn’t Be
Recently, the World Health Organization officially declared that the global health emergency caused by Covid-19 should end. This announcement comes as a relief to billions of people around the world but is particularly positive news for the supply chain industry. For three years now, the shortages and bottlenecks brought about by the devastating effects of […]
