How to Monitor Your Shipping Costs

FreightExchange

March 30, 2023
working woman technology computer
Transparent and Grey Background

Shipping costs can often be a significant expense for businesses. Whether you’re shipping products to customers or receiving supplies from vendors, it’s important to monitor your shipping costs regularly to ensure that you’re not overspending.

How to Monitor Shipping Costs Regularly

Ultimately, the key to reducing your shipping costs is to be proactive and stay on top of your expenses. By regularly monitoring your shipping costs in FreightExchange, and implementing cost-saving strategies, you can help your business grow profits and stay competitive.

Freight Spend Reports

By monitoring your shipping costs regularly, you can identify areas where you may be overspending and implement strategies to reduce your expenses in the long run. For example, you could consider consolidating shipments to reduce the number of packages you’re sending, or you may be able to negotiate better rates with your carrier by increasing the volume of shipments you’re sending.

You can view or download all of your shipping data in the platform from the Reports tab.

This report lists all of the shipments made on the platform, including the cost of shipping, and handling fees. Having this information at your fingertips helps you to identify trends and patterns in your shipping costs and make adjustments as needed.

Get FreightExchange

The FreightExchange platform is designed specifically for tracking shipping expenses. FreightExchange can help you analyse your shipping expenses in more detail, providing you with insights into where you may be overspending.

Freight Spend Reports

By monitoring your shipping costs regularly, you can identify areas where you may be overspending and implement strategies to reduce your expenses in the long run. For example, you could consider consolidating shipments to reduce the number of packages you’re sending, or you may be able to negotiate better rates with your carrier by increasing the volume of shipments you’re sending.

You can view or download all of your shipping data in the platform from the Reports tab.

This report lists all of the shipments made on the platform, including the cost of shipping, and handling fees. Having this information at your fingertips helps you to identify trends and patterns in your shipping costs and make adjustments as needed.

Get FreightExchange

The FreightExchange platform is designed specifically for tracking shipping expenses. FreightExchange can help you analyse your shipping expenses in more detail, providing you with insights into where you may be overspending.

Keep Reading

Shipping Dangerous Goods

When booking a DG shipment through the FreightExchange platform, you can search for the UN Number or item description. This will allow you to…
integrated systems

Integrating Shipping with NetSuite

ERP integrations Integrating key business functions is essential for efficiency in today’s business landscape. Integrating your shipping with a powerful…

7 Key Australian B2B Freight Trends

Freight management used to be about printing labels fast or booking the cheapest rate. However, logistics operations are resource heavy in procurement, finance and…
 

Great Service

Send us a message and our experienced customer service team will email you back the with answers on the same day *.

Submit an Inquiry
*Business days 9am-5pm AEST

Press & Partners

Here are some of the associations, partnerships and mentions we've acquired over the last 7+ years of being in business.

Keep up to date with platform features and industry news.