Minimizing Shipping Costs with Order Consolidation

Businesses have conventionally held the view that if they have to decrease shipping costs, they must engage carriers in rate negotiations and lower their freight rates for trucks, parcels, and LTL.
However, businesses often overlook the consolidation of shipments in logistics as a means of reducing shipping expenses.

Merging several smaller orders into a larger order could result in processing larger shipments while reducing the frequency of shipments. For example, it may be more costly to pay for several LTL shipments for various orders than merging these orders into one bigger shipment and sending them out by the trucks. Also, it would result in dropping shipping expenses for the same freight by using truckload as the mode of transport rather than the LTL.

However, on the other hand, smaller order processing can imply less documentation, be it printing invoices, lading bills, and fewer envelopes and stamps being used to mail a smaller quantity of payslips. Another advantage of a lesser quantity of shipments and orders can be a reduction in the volume of time spent handling orders in warehouse and back-office activities, which eventually also helps to reduce expenses.

Fewer shipments need not imply fewer sales. With order integration through a combination of distinct avenues, which would include negotiations with customers and suppliers, businesses can alleviate freight expenses along with other secondary expenses. Evaluation of shipping and order consolidation opportunities in logistics is an ongoing method, but it can deliver savings possibilities in multiple departments without having to renegotiate freight prices.
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