Shipping carriers such as UPS™ have automated hubs located within the United States that can cost you as shippers thousands of dollars in errors of adjustments and charges everyday. Take into account the Louisville Hub that is located at the Louisville International Airport. This hub is as large as 80 football fields and is capable of handling 84 packages a second, or 304,000 per hour. This hub has automated scanners, weighers, DIM weight lasers and also over 20,000 employees located within the hub. This hub handles a lot of the volume that UPS™ carries as well as the international volume into and out of the US.
This hub alone with the automation and large number of employees can cause errors thousands of times per hour on that kind of volume moving around this hub. These normally will look like regular adjustments on your invoices that your Accounting Department will just over look or believe to be an accurate charge on the shipment. Factors can play a large impact on your adjustments being charged. Take a look below at just a touch of some factors our network finds everyday:
- Package tape has come off your package and the Automated DIM Weight Laser scanners DIMs the package at a higher weight.
- Seasonal Auditors within the carrier hub tend to be trained quickly and have a high turnover. Inexperience in this area leads to a lot of incorrect adjustments placed on your shipments.
- Mis-sorts and left in buildings can cause considerable delays and damages to shipments on their way to the destination. Along with incorrect adjustment charges to the shipment along the way.
Now with your internal monitoring of adjustments, there are many human flaws involved. Being our client, you have the backing of a 100% automated auditing system that was built by former developers and management staff of the major carriers. That along with the experience auditing staff to double check the freight audits completed by the network. Your staff can miss adjustments just based on the following:
- Your staff does not have access to the data we have on residential and commercial addresses or even address verification to correct inaccurate delivery charges.
- Our network can process thousands of shipments every minute for 93 audit points to insure proper charges.
- Ship Watchers has access to example adjustments with the backing of all our clients, to get more in adjustments than your staff can being a single account.
Automation can be a friend in these times, however it can also cost shippers more in the long run. Please do not think your carrier is giving back adjustments automatically, it is simply not true.
Take advantage of our solution today and save more… even while the solution pays for itself and brings you more savings than you have now (not to mention the free online tools and portal benefits).
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