3PLs utilize profile worksheets to calculate rates. Each 3PL has its own worksheet, but the approaches are similar. At Weber, we look at a variety of data, including product volume, case size, pallet size and weight.
Jul 2, 2015 / by Weber Logistics posted in Warehouse Rates, Warehouse operations
3PLs utilize profile worksheets to calculate rates. Each 3PL has its own worksheet, but the approaches are similar. At Weber, we look at a variety of data, including product volume, case size, pallet size and weight.
Apr 23, 2015 / by Weber Logistics posted in west coast warehouses, Warehouse Rates, Warehouse operations
It’s tough to compare competitive warehouse bids. Precise warehouse rates require a more detailed analysis. Companies often cannot provide all the data requested, so 3PLs have to make assumptions in order to complete the pricing profile. Different 3PLs make different assumptions, and these differences are reflected in different rates for the same exact volume and services you need to ensure you are getting an apples- to-apples comparison.
Feb 26, 2015 / by Weber Logistics posted in Warehouse Rates, Warehouse operations
To provide a warehouse pricing quote, most third party logistics providers (3PLs) use profile worksheets. Each 3PL has its own worksheet, but the approaches are similar.
Jan 7, 2015 / by Weber Logistics posted in Third Party Logistics, Warehouse Rates, Warehouse operations
As a 3PL that provides warehousing services, we get that question a lot.
If the characteristics of the project are not changing, then the real question being asked is, “Can you lower your profit?”
Well, we could, but then we’d have little or no money to reinvest in the business.
Eventually, quality would suffer and we’d go out of business.
Nov 5, 2014 / by Weber Logistics posted in 3PL, Warehouse Rates, Warehouse operations
Too often, companies assume they have no power to impact warehouse distribution rates from 3PLs and commercial warehouse providers.
Not true. You have the power to control and reduce your warehousing costs.
An analogy might be preparation of your yearly IRS tax return. If you keep poor records and have no knowledge of allowable deductions for health expenses, business travel, and the like, you may pay more than you should. In contrast, if you keep meticulous records and have a solid understanding of IRS allowances, you’re more likely to get that fat refund.
Oct 2, 2014 / by Weber Logistics posted in 3PL, Warehouse Rates, Warehouse operations
Third party logistics providers use different warehouse pricing models to determine their costs for warehouse storage and services. But the approaches are pretty similar across providers. We all look at a variety of data, including product volume, case size, pallet size and weight.
For a primer on warehouse pricing, download our Commercial Warehouse Pricing Guide.
To get the pricing right, we need accurate data on the account characteristics to plug into a pricing model. Understandably, shippers often can’t provide all the details requested. Here are some actual shipper responses to pricing worksheet questions:
Aug 20, 2014 / by Weber Logistics posted in Warehouse Rates, Warehouse operations, Logistics Systems
Well, yes and no.
Jul 23, 2014 / by Weber Logistics posted in west coast warehouses, Warehouse Rates, Warehouse operations
If you get competing carrier bids, rate comparisons are easier than those for warehousing. Trucking companies have published tariffs for services. As rates are requested, these carriers will ask about the commodity, the originating address, the destination address, and whether the product is palletized or floor loaded. With this information, carriers can reference their tariffs and quickly provide a quote.
Jun 24, 2014 / by Weber Logistics posted in Third Party Logistics, Warehouse Rates, Warehouse operations
Jan 22, 2014 / by Mimi Ma posted in Warehouse Rates, Warehouse operations, Chargebacks
It’s a new year, and with it comes a new cycle for chargeback deductions. Hopefully, if previous errors do not reoccur and the wrongs have been righted, then vendors stand a better chance of warding off chargebacks for 2014.
If your primary focus in reducing chargebacks has been keeping human errors at bay, you may want to refocus efforts on the errors that can arise from an overlooked system or automated function.
We rely enormously on technology to help streamline warehouse processes and create efficiency gains, but often we take these automated processes for granted. Sure, you may encounter an occasional system bug or glitch that you can’t prevent. But what happens if there is an oversight in coding an application? What happens if a retailer updates or makes revisions to their label, paperwork, or EDI requirements and that information fails to pass on to the parties responsible for making the warehouse system changes? This kind of oversight can lead to hundreds or thousands of dollars in chargeback deductions.
To ensure that your technology continues to deliver and not present you with that surprise chargeback, conduct a periodic review of your automated and pre-programmed solutions for vendor compliance. UCC-128 label specifications and paperwork requirements may change over time. If you have these items designed to auto-map data to generate compliant labels or paperwork, it’s essential to have that mapping done correctly. A retailer can change something as small as a character length requirement of a Store/Unit number present on a label. A change this small has large consequences, in terms of chargebacks, due to the high impact of printing numerous labels.
Here are 8 technology-linked requirements for vendor compliance that would benefit from a periodic review:
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