Control What You Can

It's a hard call - which is more distressing: today's fuel cost, or tomorrow's...

The U.S. Energy Knowledge Administration estimates diesel to average $4.15 per gallon this year, staying steep at $4.11 a gallon in 2013.

Whatever your volume, the more you know about your shipping options, throughout all modes of transportation, the simpler it is to ship smarter and save. Freight bill processor, auditor and advisor service providers offer insight able to saving you 5% - 15% yearly on your shipping expenditures. Here's how:

For shippers, fuel surcharges, on top of line haul and accessorial charges, add up uncomfortably rapid. Shipping demand is growing. Controlling what you can to keep costs in-line together with your budget has become a necessity of urgency.

With knowledge mining tools, you can generate a document based on a radius from a ship point, or identify opportunities for service or modal shifts, providing insightful knowledge about carrier usage by lane, volume, average cost per pound, shipment size and service type. Performance can be measured based on the number and dollar amount of billing errors in proportion to overall shipping expenditures, variances from trends in costs, volumes and accessorial charges, by mining a database that includes Paid Bills, Work in Technique transactions and Bills Aging to Terms.

Shipping Bill Knowledge Mining and Reporting - the discovery of timely, actionable knowledge empowers you to make the best shipping decisions based on carrier options, along with associated rates and charges, providing significant cost savings. This function provides a deeper understanding of trends, opportunities, weaknesses and threats. Exploration of relevant knowledge, in any combination over any time period, permits you the operational and financial view of your functional flow to simplify and save.