How to Take Control of Your Freight Expenses

Written by Saving Point Team

June 21, 2019

You know the feeling. When you opened your latest invoice for international freight and there are lists of all those “other” fees blowing out the total cost.

What makes it even more frustrating is that they have no clear explanation, and you suspect that many are unjustified. Most of the Australian importers see the same fees dwarfing their real international freight expense.

What you need is a freight strategy that puts you back in control. The lowest cost and best way to regain control of your international freight costs is to conduct an independent tender. Here you set the criteria for your service and invite the most appropriate freight providers to match and price their service to your needs. This will give you the most competitive price and service matched to your needs, and not driven by our suppliers.

Saving Point experts with a lifetime of knowledge in international freight. Manage the whole tendering process for Australian importers by streamlining the following:

·      Communicate with your current and best-match potential freight providers,

·      Prepare and issue your request for quote (RFQ)

·      Analyse and present RFQ results, summarizing both financial and administrative savings, and

·      Fine-tune and finalize the winning quotation.

Saving Point’s Independent Tender process reduces freight costs, simplifies billing data and eliminates additional fees and charges.

To see how out of control this has become, scan the list of examples. How many are you paying? How many do you understand?

Examples of “Other” fees:

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