Category: Parcel Spend Management

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Shipping vs. Logistics: What’s the Difference?

In supply chain management, the terms “shipping” and “logistics” are frequently used interchangeably, so it’s easy to think that they address the same subject—but they don’t. While both are essential components of getting products from suppliers to customers, they operate at different scales and encompass different responsibilities within the supply

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What is dimensional weight (DIM)
What is Dimensional Weight and How Do You Calculate It?

Did you know that a package weighing just 2 pounds can cost the same to ship as one weighing 15 pounds? This shipping pricing reality is known as dimensional weight pricing (DIM). Whether you’re managing ecommerce fulfillment or optimizing corporate logistics, mastering dimensional weight pricing can unlock significant cost savings

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ParcelvLogistics Leaders Look to a Multi-Carrier Future
Logistics Leaders Look to a Multi-Carrier Future

Next year it will be 20 years since Chad and I founded Reveel. When I reflect on the past two decades and consider the current shipping landscape, one thing stands out: Even for an industry as dynamic as logistics, these are truly transformative times. Change of course is nothing new.

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Supply Chain Leaders Need to Look No Further for Savings Reveel
What’s The Missing Link in Your Fulfillment Strategy?

Today’s complex supply chains are models of efficiency, honed to be resilient and efficient. Yet, there is one component that remains largely unmanaged despite being a high-impact area that dramatically impacts bottom and top-line results. If you read this blog, you know I’m speaking of parcel shipping – a mission-critical

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How Shippers Can Tackle Tariff Unknowns

Regardless of whether you serve consumers as an omnichannel retailer, an e-commerce site or provide businesses with the supplies, parts and tools they need, you are probably feeling the impact of the tariffs and the uncertainty associated with them. Of course, no one knows what the long-term impact of the

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How Ewing Outdoor Supply Saved 20% in Net Spend with Reveel

When you’re the nation’s largest family-owned supplier of landscape and irrigation products, shipping operations can get messy, and fast. With more than 500 individual FedEx and UPS accounts spread across independently run branches, Ewing Outdoor Supply struggled with visibility, control, and cost containment across its parcel network. That changed when

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How U.S. AutoForce Slashed Parcel Ops Time and Costs by Over 30%

With over 70 distribution centers and daily shipments ranging from tires to small specialty parts, U.S. AutoForce faced growing challenges managing its parcel shipping operations. Rising costs, invoice backlog, tedious GL coding, and claims left unfiled were all symptoms of one big issue: a lack of visibility and control. That changed with Reveel’s

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Consider a New Approach to Returns

Retail and ecommerce returns usually make the headlines in the days following the holiday shopping season, when it’s clear that however well-intentioned some gifts are better enjoyed by someone else – you know, the ugly sweater that’s not holiday-themed or the slippers that defy regifting. But as all shippers, retail,

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Parcel Spend Management RFP Template

Stop Leaving Money on the Table With Poor Vendor Selection Get Our Professional Parcel Spend Management RFP Template (Free) Most companies waste thousands annually by choosing the wrong parcel spend management vendor. A poorly structured RFP process leads to inadequate requirements, missed savings opportunities, and vendor relationships that don’t deliver

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What to Look For In a Parcel Shipping Partner

Your logistics and shipping operations are the heart of your business. Without an efficient parcel spend management system in place, you risk incurring unnecessarily high shipping costs, experiencing poor customer satisfaction, and underperforming shipping operations. The first step is to find the right parcel shipping partner. The shipping partner you

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2025 Parcel Shipping Intelligence Report 

Spot the Trends. Cut Through the Noise. Take Control of Your Spend.  Parcel shipping is no longer just a line item — it’s a fast-moving, complex part of your business that demands strategic attention. Reveel’s 2025 Parcel Shipping Intelligence Report, developed with Supply Chain Dive, uncovers the latest trends shaping

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what is parcel spend management
What is Parcel Spend Management?

How much is your organization spending on shipping?  A business typically spends up to 4% of its total sales on shipping, but this percentage can vary depending on the company’s size, total sales volume, or the type of products being shipped and received. In short, shipping costs represent a significant

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What is parcel spend visibility?
What is Parcel Spend Visibility?

Parcel shipping has always been expensive, but this year’s logistics ecosystem has presented a particular challenge to even the most experienced shippers.  Why? Because the true cost of shipping has skyrocketed. FedEx and UPS raise their base rates annually, but surcharges, new billing rules—such as cubic volume assessments and credit

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6 Strategies to Optimize Your Parcel Shipping Spend
6 Strategies to Optimize Your Parcel Shipping Spend

Managing your business’s parcel shipping spend is a logistics-wide effort that analyzes everything from carrier contracts to parcel invoices. And with shipping costs on the rise, every dollar counts. Carriers implement regular rate increases and surcharges every year, but shipping costs have risen significantly. Parcel shipping for FedEx and UPS

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Optimizing Parcel Shipping for Pharma & Life Sciences with Reveel
Optimizing Parcel Shipping for Pharma & Life Sciences with Reveel

Temperature-Controlled Logistics & Regulatory Compliance Excellence Pharmaceutical and life sciences companies face unique and critical challenges in managing parcel shipping. The need for timely, secure, and compliant shipments is essential to ensure patient safety, regulatory adherence, and operational efficiency. Rising shipping costs, regulatory requirements, and the complexity of global supply

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On-Demand Webinar: How U.S. AutoForce is Revolutionizing Logistics Automation

Access our informative webinar recording that reveals how U.S. AutoForce transformed its logistics operations through advanced shipping optimization strategies. In this on-demand session, you’ll explore the significant impact of automation and actionable insights in driving both efficiency and cost savings. Learn about U.S. AutoForce’s successful implementation of shipping optimization solutions,

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Transforming Logistics for a High-End Fashion Brand

How a Global Retailer Streamlined Shipping and Cut Costs by 30% As you can imagine, managing logistics for a high-end fashion retailer with multiple brands, department store concessions, and hundreds of locations presents a unique set of challenges. Before working with Reveel, this fashion retailer struggled with inefficiencies in their

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6 Shipping Challenges For Large-Scale Manufacturing (And How To Overcome Them!) With Reveel
6 Shipping Challenges For Large-Scale Manufacturing (And How To Overcome Them!)

Shipping for large-scale manufacturing isn’t just about moving products from point A to point B—it’s about maintaining a smooth, cost-effective supply chain that meets customer demands and keeps businesses competitive. And with large, heavy, or oversized packages, efficient shipping isn’t just a necessity—it’s a competitive advantage. However, navigating the complexities

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Arrowhead Gains Full Shipping Visibility and Saves Millions with Reveel 

Industry: Aftermarket Parts | Headquarters: Blaine, MN | Shipments: 4M+/year  Challenge  Arrowhead Engineered Products, the largest North American supplier of aftermarket parts, serves powersports, automotive, heavy-duty, and industrial markets with 99% of orders shipped the same day. Yet, their logistics and finance teams faced major obstacles: limited visibility into parcel

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Unlocking Parcel Spend Optimization with AI and Machine Learning

As any business based around shipping goods to customers already knows, optimizing parcel spend is crucial for maintaining a healthy bottom line. There are numerous challenges along the way, including deciphering annual carrier rate increases, determining how to adjust variables to reflect changes in weight or size allowances, and balancing

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How Reveel’s HIPAA-Compliant PSM 2.0 Supports UPS’s Healthcare Initiative

Reliability, cost-efficiency, and data security are non-negotiable areas in healthcare logistics and shipping. As the healthcare industry continues to face increasing demands for faster and more transparent parcel delivery services, UPS has stepped up with its Healthcare Initiative. The initiative is focused on providing specialized logistics solutions for healthcare providers,

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Parcel Shipping Trends And Strategies For Success
2025 Parcel Shipping Trends And Strategies For Success

As we dive into 2025, the parcel shipping landscape is undergoing significant shifts, and businesses need to stay informed to navigate these changes effectively. From rising costs to evolving carrier strategies, this year promises both challenges and opportunities for shippers. Understanding the Impact of Rate Increases Each year, the big

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Precision in Motion: How Reveel Helps Auto Parts Companies Control Shipping Costs 

Auto parts shipping faces unique hurdles, from the urgency of delivery to managing bulky and heavy shipments that incur high fees. Key challenges include:  Visibility Gaps: Limited real-time insights into parcel spend.  Negotiation Issues: Difficulty securing favorable carrier contracts.  High Costs: Heavy reliance on express shipping without alternatives.  Inefficiencies: Challenges

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Empowering a 3PL to Optimize Parcel Shipping Profitability

Challenge  A leading third-party logistics (3PL) provider struggled to manage parcel shipping operations efficiently. Their reliance on Excel spreadsheets for tracking revenue and customer markups led to limited real-time visibility into profit margins and operational performance. The 3PL’s revenue depended on reselling discounted FedEx rates with markups, but outdated processes

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How Our Annual GRI Rate Guide Helped a Retail Leader Save on Shipping

Reveel’s Annual GRI Rate Guide provides shippers with the transparency and insights needed to navigate the complexities of carrier General Rate Increases (GRIs). For one leading retailer, Reveel’s analysis transformed a daunting rate hike into an opportunity for strategic cost management and negotiation.  The Challenge  Each year, carriers like FedEx

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Empowering Retailers with Reveel’s GRI Impact Analysis Tool

General Rate Increases (GRIs) by carriers like UPS and FedEx challenge businesses with complex, customer-specific cost impacts. Reveel’s GRI Impact Analysis provides clear, actionable insights that empower companies to budget effectively, renegotiate terms, and optimize operations in the face of rising shipping costs.  The Challenge  Businesses often struggle to navigate

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Peak Season Shipping: Don’t Let Carriers Steal Your Christmas Cheer

This article was contributed by ProShip, a key Reveel partner specializing in multi-carrier shipping software solutions.  The holiday season is a time for bringing joy and cheer through your brand’s store and shipping operations. Ensuring timely delivery is essential during peak season, navigating carrier pricing complexities, partnering with carriers for capacity

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Why parcel spend management 2.0 is A Game Changer for Life Sciences Companies
Parcel Spend Management 2.0: Industry Challenges and Best Practices for Life Sciences

In the life sciences industry, efficient and reliable shipping is not just a logistical challenge—it’s a critical component of business success. Whether it’s delivering temperature-sensitive pharmaceuticals, high-value laboratory equipment, or time-sensitive clinical trial materials, companies in this sector face unique shipping complexities. Unfortunately, this area of significant spending has been

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Case Study Spotlight: Optimizing Parcel Shipping in the Life Sciences Industry

Managing parcel shipping costs in the life sciences industry is complex and often overlooked, leading to rising expenses and inefficiencies. A leading pharmaceutical company faced these challenges, including limited visibility, costly express shipping, and ineffective carrier negotiations. By partnering with Reveel and leveraging their Shipping Intelligence™ Platform powered by Parcel

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The Benefits of a Partnership Between Deposco and Reveel 

In today’s rapidly evolving logistics and eCommerce landscape, companies are under increasing pressure to streamline operations, control costs, and deliver exceptional customer experiences. Supply chain efficiency and cost management are no longer just competitive advantages; they’re essential for survival. That’s where the partnership between Deposco, a leading supply chain technology

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2025 General Rate Increase (GRI) Rate Guide

Is your shipping budget ready? ​ The 2025 General Rate Increases (GRIs) from FedEx and UPS are more complex than ever, with steep hikes in Additional Handling, Large Package, and Residential surcharges. New billing rules, like cubic volume assessments and credit card fees, add unexpected costs that could significantly affect

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Catch Michael Falls on ProShip’s ParcelCast Episode!

In this special episode of ProShip ParcelCast Unwined, our own Michael Falls, VP of Client Success, joined ProShip’s Will Hennessy and host Jerri Dixon for an insightful discussion on the future of parcel spend management and the technologies that are transforming the industry. Here’s what listeners can expect: Don’t miss

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On-Demand Webinar: How Creativity Inc. Slashed Its Parcel Spend

Creativity Inc. is a mid-sized provider of supplies for quilt makers. Chief operating officer Keith Washington says the company was looking to cut down on shipping expenses, which were “a little out of line.”   Creativity Inc. turned to Reveel for spend-management software and expert support. “Parcel companies do a

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Leading Fashion Industry E-Commerce Company: On-Line Marketplace Makes Parcel Spending Optimization Fashionable with Reveel

https://youtu.be/u-Bkra059A4 Challenge: Optimizing Shipping Costs for a Complex Operation A top-tier online fashion marketplace faced a unique logistics challenge. As a reseller of high-end apparel and sneakers, it handled both inbound shipments for authentication and outbound deliveries to buyers, creating a complex logistics model. This dual shipping process required the

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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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The Top Habits of Successful Shippers

Parcel spend management of course is not a new concept. Shippers have always looked for ways to lower their costs, toiling over ledgers and spreadsheets in an effort to find opportunities for savings, and engaging consultants for carrier contract analysis and contract negotiation expertise. In recent years, though, the parcel

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Reflections on Home Delivery World

A few weeks have passed since we enjoyed seeing our colleagues and friends in the retail industry at Home Delivery World in Philadelphia. It was particularly rewarding to see such a great reaction to our session “Embracing the Future: How a Big Apparel Brand Leverages Next Gen Parcel Spend Optimization

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Optimizing Shipping: How Brighton Collectibles Transformed Operations with Reveel

https://youtu.be/mPZo4XDCnus In today’s competitive retail landscape, efficient shipping can make or break a business. Brighton Collectibles, a renowned name in accessories, understands this all too well. To stay ahead, Brighton turned to Reveel’s Shipping Intelligence™ Platform to optimize their shipping operations and achieve significant cost savings. The Challenge Shipping represents

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How Boot Barn Dramatically Decreased Parcel Shipping Spend

https://youtu.be/6nKGoxUqH9w If you look at the U.S. Census Bureau’s most recent retail quarterly e-commerce sales report several estimates are particularly telling. “The fourth quarter 2023 e-commerce estimate increased 7.5 percent (±1.2%) from the fourth quarter of 2022 while total retail sales increased 2.8 percent (±0.4%) in the same period. E-commerce

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On-Demand Webinar: Brighton Collectibles’ Transportation Finance Journey With Reveel

Tune into this insightful webinar where we delved into how Brighton Collectibles is transforming its transportation finance strategies through the power of parcel spend management. Discover how Brighton effectively utilizes the Reveel platform to streamline parcel shipping operations and drive financial efficiency. In this webinar, we explored Brighton’s journey, focusing

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On-Demand Webinar: Parcel Shipping in Style: A Reveel Apparel Case Study

Embark on a journey of cost-effective parcel spend optimization with Reveel. Join our insightful webinar as we unveil how our cutting-edge Parcel Spend Optimization solutions transform the landscape for the apparel and fashion industry.  This webinar is your gateway to unparalleled savings and enhanced profitability. Don’t miss out on this

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FedEx Tracking
What is FedEx Tracking and How Does it Work?

FedEx offers the opportunity for shippers to track just about every package as it moves across the globe. The vast majority of those packages — nearly  98 percent in 2023 during the rush between Black Friday and Cyber Monday — arrive on time. Shippers and customers alike can use a

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Parcel Spend Management 2.0

Reveel is the only Parcel Spend Management (PSM) 2.0 shipping intelligence platform that leverages advanced analytics, modeling and simulation, statistical analysis and real time insights to transform complex shipping data into simple ways to save money, doing the hard work for you. https://youtu.be/HIaFcDtd7-4

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On-Demand Webinar: 4 Ways to Transform Parcel Spend Management

Even the savviest shippers with processes in place to control parcel spend still leave money on the table. Shippers often negotiate in the dark and lack access to contracted rates of other shippers. Shippers are also overbilled because auditing parcel invoices is resource intensive. Catch the playback of our webinar

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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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GRI Impact Analysis: Getting a Handle on Parcel Costs

Today, most shippers are realizing that the parcel marketplace is subtlety nuance. In many cases, capacity demands have fallen, as e-commerce growth levels have eased, yet shippers remain frustrated with exponentially increasing prices. And to no one’s surprise, the Big Two carriers raised rates for 2024, announcing an identical 5.9%

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Mastering Shipping Efficiency: How Paccurate and Reveel Partner to Cut Costs Post-GRI

Join our upcoming Webinar In today’s rapidly evolving world of e-commerce, businesses are constantly challenged to meet customer expectations while managing their shipping costs. The annual General Rate Increase (GRI) by major carriers always impacts shipping expenses significantly, unless you’re equipped. To tackle this challenge head-on, a powerful partnership between

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Wine Direct Secures More Than $1 Million in Initial Savings With Active Shipping Management

https://youtu.be/h5U02SjiMEU?si=qRKBFC86bDzp1JSE With the most widely adopted, all-in-one direct to consumer platform in the industry, Wine Direct provides wineries across the globe with everything they need to grow their businesses. Now, with the deployment of Reveel’s Shipping Intelligence Platform, the company’s fulfillment process can be governed, managed and perfected with the

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When Dramatic Growth Demands a New Look at Parcel Shipping

In the years since Reveel’s founding in 2006, we have seen and strived to accelerate thesignificant change in how companies and executive leaders view the singular role of shippers,and the important and often dramatic impact that shipping acumen has on financial results. Inany company that does business online, the role

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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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Parcel Shipping Spend Management

Download the White Paper Private equity investors can increase enterprise value of portfolio companies by reducing parcel shipping costs. Parcel shipping costs have increasingly become a major expense for businesses, especially with the rise of e-commerce through buyer preference for online shopping. Portfolio companies that rely on parcel shipping can

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Fathead Selects Reveel to Power a Strategic Approach to Shipping, Delivering Savings and Driving Process Improvements

Reveel’s Shipping Intelligence™ Platform Provides the Leader for Sports and Entertainment Graphics With the Insights its Shipping Operation Needs to Drive Bottom- and Top-Line Results  Rachel Mahrle is the owner, founder and CEO of ProfitNet, an award-winning bookkeeping firm that helps fast-growing companies improve core financial functions with scalable systems,

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A Billion Dollar Yoga Apparel Brand

Learn how Parcel Spend Management empowers the most popular, billion-dollar yoga apparel brand to transform its parcel shipping operation. https://youtu.be/Du7b3Eaa58I Read the Full Case Study

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