Trade Secrets to Help Boost Your Bottom Line

(For more tips on saving money on freight, see “Vendor Inbound Freight: 10 steps to reducing costs and improving control,” Catalog Success, April 2003, p. 30).

6. Decrease the cost of outbound freight. Unless your customers or your brand image demands the fastest delivery service possible, try using a less-expensive method. The difference in the cost per package of an overnight package and a package sent through the U.S. Postal Service via a consolidator such as Parcel Direct can be staggering. If you don’t need the speed or the trackability, don’t pay for it.