Shipping Feature: Delivering a Profit
While parcel shipping costs are in fact significantly higher in 2015, the current parcel marketplace is abounding with opportunities. Regional parcel carriers, postal consolidators and the U.S. Postal Service each represent terrific alternatives for shippers to not only reduce costs, but also potentially improve service.
Rob Martinez is the CEO of Shipware LLC, a professional services firm that transforms businesses through intelligent distribution solutions and strategies. Rob has helped some of the world’s most recognizable brands reduce parcel shipping costs an average of 25 percent through contract negotiations, rate benchmarking, modal optimization, invoice audit and other savings vehicles. A cum laude graduate of UCLA, Rob has 20 years of transportation industry experience, including executive positions at DHL and Stamps.com, in addition to his work as an outside consultant since 2001.
