The current economic climate is sending mixed signals. Some believe the recession is over but layoffs still abound and hiring is limited to very few sectors. For many, 2009 is the year of survival. America’s top executives continue to cut expenses using conventional means but still avoid the “low hanging fruit” of lowering shipping costs that could threaten their very survival.
On Friday, November 20th UPS issued its 2010 Rate Change. Highlights of the changes, with an effective date of January 4, 2010, included:
Ground service will increase 4.9%
UPS Air and International Services will increase a net 4.9% through a combination of a 6.9% increase in the base rate and a 2% reduction in the Air and [...]
Transportation companies are feeling the affects of the great recession and some will fail during the next 6 to 12 months. To meet the operational demands of their respective businesses, the small package duopolies (UPS/FedEx) will be increasing base rates in January at a rate approximately three times inflation but that won’t be enough to meet the needs of the hundreds of thousands of employees, planes, trucks, salaries, wall street investors, marketing expenses, and other infrastructure costs.
The latest release of AgileElite (6.5.5) enables shippers to calculate and manage multiple rates for a single shipping transaction. The following are useful applications for this feature:
Shipping charge markups: AgileElite can be configured to calculate the negotiated discounted rate for a carrier service, and also calculate a rate for the same service marked up by [...]
Agile Network, LLC. announced today that it is participating in the UPS Ready program, entering into an agreement with UPS that will increase the availability of UPS technology integration service options for businesses interested in automating and streamlining transportation and
fulfillment processes.
Steve Cooper, founding member of Agile-Network had this to say about the new agreement with [...]
