5 posts tagged CARRIER COSTS
Is Your Packout Ready for Peak?
Peak season prep is in full swing. You've got new automation moving, your warehouse systems are running smoothly, and inventory is staged and ready for an influx of orders. However, here's the thing that most operations teams miss: they spend months perfecting everything upstream and then overlook the pack station.
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Optimizing Packing for Volatile Markets
The supply chain has shifted from what used to be predictable, annual planning cycles to constant adaptation. Tariffs, nearshoring pressures, inflation, geopolitical tensions, and evolving e-commerce expectations have made uncertainty loom. Add in rapid digital transformation, and it's clear: businesses need more than reactive strategies. They need resilience built into every process.
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2025 FedEx and UPS GRI Highlights and Impact on Shippers
The 2025 General Rate Increase (GRI) brought an unexpected twist: for the first time in years, the baseline GRI did not go up. FedEx and UPS held steady at a 5.9% increase, matching last year’s rates.
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How Packing and Packaging Combined Impact Parcel Spend
Paccurate and Reveel recently formed a partnership to help shippers gain an edge in managing parcel spending to help improve shipping efficiency.
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Minimizing the Impact of New Carrier Surcharge Increases
As of January 1, 2024 both FedEx and UPS have implemented an average of a 5.9% increase across a range of their services which is 1% lower than the 6.9% increase we saw in 2023.
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