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DIY Parcel Carrier Contract Negotiations: 5 Steps To Success

Parcel shipping has become an integral part of modern business operations, especially with the surge in eCommerce and the global shift toward online shopping. Companies are shipping more goods directly to consumers than ever before, making efficient and cost-effective parcel shipping a crucial factor for maintaining profitability.  With customer expectations

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Retail Parcel Shippers – Onward and Upward

For those of us in the parcel shipping field, it was always difficult to understand how organizations could fail to appreciate the important role that shipping expertise plays in driving bottom and top-line results. That, of course, began to change more broadly during the pandemic when skyrocketing e-commerce adoption underscored

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2025 FedEx GRI: What Shippers Need to Know

As we move into 2025, FedEx has announced its General Rate Increase (GRI), with significant changes affecting both Ground and Express services. Shippers can expect varying rate increases based on package weight and zone, with heavier shipments seeing the highest price hikes. Here’s a detailed look at the upcoming changes

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Parcel Shipping Audits: Are You Leaving Money on The Table?

The shippers I speak with know I am particularly bullish on their ability to secure far more favorable shipping rates, terms, and conditions from FedEx and UPS right now. With excess capacity in their networks, both carriers are again eager to compete for business.   Many of our customers are not

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A New Golden Age for Shippers

Shippers have always played a vital role in business. The ability to cost-effectively and reliably ensure that a parcel arrived on time and at the right location was just as important years ago as it is today. Some things, after all, never change. What is different today is that parcel

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Celebrating National Supply Chain Day 2024

Happy National Supply Chain Day everyone! While the day celebrating all things supply chain may be relatively new (it was initially celebrated in 2020), the supply chain industry itself is one of the most important, longest standing industries in the world.

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Parcel Shippers: Making Every Day Earth Day

If you viewed our most recent webinar “Parcel Shipping in Style: A Reveel Apparel Case Study” you may recall that a viewer asked if there are ways to make shipping more eco-friendly without spending more money. It is an important and particularly prescient question, not only because it is good

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How Reveel Prioritizes Security as a Company Value 

Reveel’s security and compliance principles guide how we deliver our products and services, enabling people to access the digital world simply and securely. Learn more about our security measures and how our processes enabled the Reveel team to complete the prestigious AICPA Service Organization Control (SOC) 2 Type II audit.

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Reveel News Roundup on Parcel Spend Management

In the world of parcel shipping, financial compliance and governance rely significantly on two key elements: General Ledger (GL) coding and order matching. These fundamental processes streamline financial management and drive efficiency in shipping operations. GL coding and order matching are vital in parcel shipping for financial governance and accuracy.

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Maximize the Value of Shipping to Your Enterprise

Across the globe, ShipERP is known for empowering businesses of all kinds to integrate their shipping operations directly into enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. In today’s world, it is imperative for enterprise organizations to integrate shipping operations with their respective ERP systems to better meet customer demand. By using ShipERP,

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It’s Time for Your Carrier Invoice to Work for You

It’s no secret that shippers have a long and complicated history with carriers’ invoices. Thesurprises that often accompany them were a catalyst for the founding of Reveel in 2006 and ourongoing mission to help shippers level the playing field with carriers. Most veteran shippers will tell you that some of

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UPS Says General Rate Increase (GRI) for 2024 is 5.9%

As expected, UPS announced its annual GRI (General Rate Increase) for 2024 and it’s exactly the same as FedEx announced earlier – a 5.9% increase. Given the history of the big two historically matching each other’s rate increases, this comes as no surprise. There was also little chance that UPS

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FedEx 2024 GRI (General Rate Increase) is Announced

This week, FedEx took the opportunity to be the first of the big two carriers to announce their general rate increase, or GRI, for 2024. They announced that rates would increase 5.9% over last year – but the important part to note is that this year the increase is less

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Breaking the Vicious Cycle of Parcel Consulting

As anyone reading this knows, shipping costs are a significant challenge for small and mid-sized businesses, often spiraling out of control with the potential to negatively impact the bottom line.  Frustrated by rising expenses and unsure of how to address the issue, many companies turn to parcel spend consultants for

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Reveel + Cubiscan: Savings on Savings

We’re all about savings here at Reveel, and that’s why we have partnered with Cubiscan, the global leader in dimensioning with thousands of installations at many of the world’s largest companies. It’s no secret that accurate dimensions and weight are essential for warehousing, distribution,right- size packaging, and freight manifesting applications.

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Reveel: Streamlining Shipping and Revolutionizing Logistics

In the world of e-commerce and global trade, efficient shipping and logistics management are vital for businesses seeking to thrive. That’s where Reveel comes in. Reveel is a professional logistics and shipping management platform that harnesses the power of machine learning to simplify the complex world of shipping, helping businesses

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Sustainability in Parcel Shipping: Strategies for Eco-Friendly Packages and Shipping Practices

In today’s environmentally conscious world, businesses across various industries are embracing sustainability as a core value. The parcel shipping industry, responsible for transporting millions of packages daily, has a significant role to play in reducing its environmental impact. By implementing eco-friendly practices and innovative strategies, companies can contribute to a

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Is Parcel Consulting Consulting Dead?

For years, shippers have operated blind with little visibility into their shipping activity or ability to analyze the many thousands of shipments they might make in a given day – let alone benefit from the ability to know if their existing carrier contract is optimal or even if they are

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Reveel + Paccurate: real-time optimization to
drive cost savings

Paccurate Paccurate is the only patented cartonization solution that optimizes packing and packaging fortransportation costs directly. Paccurate is a real-time packing decision-maker, focused on minimizingevery conceivable cost associated with packing—from labor to materials, to obscure incentives innegotiated rate tables, it considers every angle to determine the most cost-efficient way of

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What Does ChatGPT Think About Parcel Optimization?

Unless you’ve been living under a rock these past few months, you’ve heard of ChatGPT and how the tool brought generative AI technology to the masses, educating much of the populace on just what artificial intelligence (AI) can do.  Here at Reveel, we understand the power of data, analytics and

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How to Diversify Your Shipping Carrier Mix to Save Money

Over the years, the shipping industry has grown to include more than just UPS, FedEx, and the USPS. Today, there are more small and mid-sized carriers, last mile delivery services, and other supplemental service providers that continue to gradually change the landscape of shipping and how parcel carriers operate today.

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Last Mile Delivery: Your Guide to the Growing Logistics Segment

As the majority of ecommerce consumers have grown to expect fast, free shipping options, more companies are being pressured into providing this level of service to stay competitive. In order to do so, many high-volume shippers look for opportunities to correct any inefficiencies under their control and decrease their shipping

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5 of the Most Avoidable Carrier Surcharges Explained

As each major carrier continues to increase their rates year after year, surcharges are one of the biggest areas shippers see snowball into a major expense. As frustrating as this can be, there are ways to avoid some of the most common surcharges applied by UPS and FedEx so you

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Discussing Digital Logistics Management with SupplyChainBrain

https://youtu.be/Y2Sgu_1e8k8 SupplyChainBrain is the most comprehensive resource for supply chain management information today. The wide range of multi-media formats addresses everything from the fundamental principles of supply-chain management and emerging trends to the latest technologies and cutting-edge solutions and features pieces written by the world’s most influential supply chain executives.

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FedEx & UPS Rates Have Gone Up: Here is the Impact We are Seeing

Our Shipping Intelligence® platform analyzes thousands of shipping agreements, models them, and runs them through simulations to give our customers data driven analysis. Now that FedEx and UPS rate increases are in effect for 2022, our data scientists took a deep dive into the impact shippers should expect to see

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What Is FedEx GRI?

2021 presented logistical challenges for businesses across the board. Rising inflation, shipping delays, and labor shortages are just a start to the laundry list of problems that created the perfect storm for an unpredictable shipping environment. And amongst the chaos, FedEx continues to pass on these challenges to their customers

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How To Negotiate Your Shipping Contracts in 2022

With FedEx and UPS seeing greater demand for parcel shipment volumes than ever before there’s no question it’s a difficult negotiation climate; however carriers are making agreements. Now is the time for all shippers to negotiate their 2022 contracts. It’s never been more important to be informed and prepared in

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What is UPS GRI?

It is right to assume that current market conditions are driving up the cost of shipping, but rate increases are nothing new to the world of shipping. In fact, UPS implements a general rate increase, or GRI, year over year. Let’s take a look at what this entails. The General

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The 2022 UPS General Rate Increase is Here

On Tuesday, October 26th, UPS announced an annual rate increase of 5.9% for 2022 on their earnings call. Last year, we saw a 4.9% increase in shipping prices that affected businesses’ across the country. If shipping is an integral part of your business, you need to know how this will

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Pearson Farm Saves $200K renegotiating their UPS agreement

Consider this: farm-fresh peaches delivered to your door in just two days, tasty pecans right in time for the holidays—all without a trip to crowded grocery stores. That’s what you get when you order direct from Pearson Farm.  Based in Georgia, the Pearson family has been tilling the soil for

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FedEx Announces 2022 Rate Increases, and They Are Substantial

With the end of the year just around the corner, FedEx has announced their 2022 General Rate Increases. Retailers and high-volume shippers beware: this year marks the highest GRI average rate increase since 2013 with the average rate increase for FedEx in 2022 sitting at 5.9%. This is a substantial

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Gunner Kennels on the Shipping Intelligence® Platform

With the launch of Reveel’s Shipping Intelligence® Platform, we gave our existing clients early access to the platform. We first talked to Brandon Beasley, the VP of Operations at Gunner Kennels, last year. Driven to keep man’s-best-friend safe in vehicles, the company builds 5-star, crash-tested dog kennels and sells direct-to-consumer

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White Labs and Reveel

THE INTERSECTION OF SCIENCE, EDUCATION & CRAFT What began as home brewers searching for higher quality yeast, quickly grew into a team of dedicated biochemists exploring new ways to advance brewing altogether. Today, White Labs stands at the intersection of science, education and craft. Constantly striving for perfection, and in

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FedEx Announces Surcharges on International Shipments

As COVID-19 was beginning to impact the global supply chain, FedEx responded in April 2020 by implementing a surcharge on all FedEx Express® and TNT international parcel and freight shipments beginning April 6, 2020. This surcharge made logical sense as containment restrictions among the various countries around the world disrupted the global

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Inside Reveel: Hear Why Our VP Left FedEx to Join Our Team

What was it like working at FedEx? Although he enjoyed the job, our VP of Operations Nick Nowaczyk noticed a few things that didn’t sit well with him. One, FedEx and UPS charged the same amount to ship comparable packages—down to the penny—despite the many different variables in the two

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