Category: Parcel Spend Management

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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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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Driving Down Shipping Costs 28% for an RC Car Manufacturer

Challenge A premier manufacturer of remote controlled cars, RedCat Racing didn’t think they could do much to improve their rates with UPS. Because the company was heavily backed by a venture capital firm, however, they were constantly looking for ways to manage costs more efficiently. Like many Reveel clients, RedCat

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Saving Thousands of Staff Hours for a Wide-Ranging Insurance Firm

Challenge With no fewer than 91 locations across the United States, Alliant Insurance Services was dealing with a challenge faced by many widespread businesses. Each location had its own unique shipping spend, which meant that the company’s central accounting department had to process 91 different weekly invoices from FedEx. Needless

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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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Fixing a $100K Mistake on Alen Corp’s Invoice

FedEx and UPS invoices are notoriously hard to read. Whether that’s by design or not, it makes it hard to audit your invoices.  You may realize your costs are going up, but you don’t know why.  That’s what we’re here for. Shipping contract negotiations are a big part of our

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Faherty Finds a Culture Fit Working with Reveel

How much does culture matter to you? For family-owned apparel company Faherty, it matters a lot.  Even when considering a shipping intelligence partner. Michael Chen, the brand’s Director of Supply Chain, has been successfully managing Faherty’s shipping operations and negotiating their shipping contracts internally.  However, their growth meant they were

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