How to Manage Inbound Shipping

Reducing inbound shipping costs is one of the easiest, yet most overlooked ways to reduce your overall transportation expenses. The good news is that PartnerShip can help you take control of your inbound shipping costs easily.

When you control and route your own inbound shipments, you have an excellent opportunity to significantly lower your costs. If you allow suppliers to route your shipments and invoice you for shipping charges, your transportation costs are probably higher than they should be. You determine what you purchase from a particular vendor, now you can also determine how it is shipped to you.

PartnerShip makes saving on inbound shipping easy. You can save on small package and freight shipments coming into your business every day. As the buyer and receiver of the goods, you can-and should-designate the carrier and arrange for shipping charges to be billed directly to you at your discounted rate. This is called routing shipments inbound "Collect." Collect is a billing option, in which you are invoiced by the carrier. It does not mean paying the driver at the time of delivery. Routing shipments inbound "Collect" can save you significant dollars. If you continue to allow vendors to prepay for shipping and add it to your merchandise invoice, in most instances you will continue to pay more than you should for incoming product.

To make routing your shipments inbound "Collect" as easy as possible for you, PartnerShip will contact your vendors on your behalf to update your routing instructions. Call your account representative today at 800-599-2902, or log in to your account to Manage Inbound routing instructions yourself!

Once your routing instructions are updated with all your vendors, your inbound shipments will arrive via one of your program carriers (depending on the service requirement and weight), at your program's discount rate.