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Parcel Shipping Contract Negotiation Support
Every company that ships freight has “tried hard” to negotiate good shipping rates. How successful they end up varies by company based on their market knowledge and the individual doing the actual negotiations.
(FedEx & UPS Contract Negotiation)
The carriers have all of the pricing advantage. They know what parts of your business are most profitable to them.
AFMS helps level the playing field
- AFMS is simply an extension of your team and brings fact-based knowledge that levels the playing field.
- We provide pricing intelligence to you that’s not readily available in the market.
- AFMS brings you over 30 years of carrier contract expertise.
- We bring to you experienced, high-level executives and analysts who formerly worked for FedEx, UPS, DHL, and other carriers.
- AFMS simply gives you the knowledge and negotiation support to get you best in best-in-class shipping contracts.
The carrier sales reps are trained to protect their bottom line. That’s what they’re in business to do. These carrier sales representatives are paid good commissions based on high profit margins.
There is more to consider than just costs. The carriers’ contracts are loaded with terms and conditions and pages of fine print to protect the carrier’s bottom line, not the shipper.
Let AFMS take the leverage out of the carrier’s hands and put it on your side. Customize your agreement to best fit your needs and objectives.
Let the AFMS team of parcel pricing experts deliver a thorough no-cost assessment, pricing review, and benchmark analysis that will identify areas within your carrier’s contracts that are way above market.
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Our team of parcel pricing experts will conduct an assessment of your business for parcel contract optimization by conducting the following services:
- 1Benchmark current carrier pricing against the market
- 2Mode and carrier service optimization studies
- 3Package characteristics analyses
- 4A global contract compliance audit
- 5Detailed savings summary; Over 750 reports available
Parcel Contract Benchmarking
Parcel shipping contract benchmarking is the process of knowing where your contract lines up with other similar companies in your industry. Parcel shipping contract benchmarking also analyzes how other organizations achieve their performance levels and how you can use this information to improve your own organization’s shipping performance. Determining what improvements are called for in your parcel shipping contracts.
AFMS offers benchmarking services as a valuable way for your organization to gain perspective on the effectiveness of its carrier contract.
When benchmarking is done right, your organization will understand where it stands in the marketplace. AFMS removes the guesswork from the parcel contract negotiation process.
Parcel Contract Auditing
Every year, over $2 billion in refunds and credits go unclaimed by U.S. businesses.
Parcel contract auditing is the review of your company’s shipping bills and invoices. It’s essential for reducing your shipping costs. AFMS will analyze your invoices and shipping bills to locate any instances of overcharging or service failures that may be present in your shipping history.
In a thorough parcel contract audit, software technology is used to analyze charges and refund requests for errors or violations to service standards. Parcel contract auditing ensures that billing mistakes, delivery failures, and errors in accessorial charges are detected and recovered.
Every shipping invoice has the potential for error. Parcel auditing ensures FedEx contract pricing optimization and UPS contract pricing optimization by capturing these invoice errors.
AFMS analyzes your organization’s billing documents and data for these incorrect charges to ensure that your company gets these refunds.
Some of the most common reasons why carriers may issue refunds on service failures and overcharges include:
- Non-shipments: When a parcel is entered into the carrier system and billed, but the parcel never left the shipping company.
- Duplicate charges: When a parcel is billed more than once.
- Late deliveries: When a parcel is delivered to its destination past the guaranteed delivery date and time.
- Incorrect address corrections: When the carrier charges a fee for an address correction that was initially correct or wasn’t a necessary correction.
- Incorrect rate: When the carrier doesn’t apply the correct discount stipulated in the carrier’s agreement.
- Incorrect dimensional weight charges: When the carrier uses the wrong dimensions or applies the incorrect DIM factor.
- Incorrect Saturday charge: When a carrier was meant to pick up a parcel on a Saturday but did not.
