Where a customer of courier services has a set, regular pattern of required deliveries, the courier businesses they use are able to schedule the work-load into their daily or weekly operations. This is logistically efficient and allows for a best price negotiation.
It becomes very difficult for any courier company to schedule and deal with efficiently
They will look to one of the “open market courier networks”.
The job is posted online on an app, and there is a bidding process by available drivers.
So this solution is effective and efficient as it matches the customers demand with the best placed resource to undertake the job
Usually, the rate that the established courier business of choice would ordinarily charge. This will be a rate for an immediate/urgent service. And the charge will necessarily include an element of the businesses fixed operating costs – warehousing, vehicle fleet costs, paye drivers, office staff, administration, management, directors etc etc
Access to the live market places and the real time lowest cost for your job. Obviously, we have our own costs and therefore we have to operate on a cost plus basis. But you can have full transparency so that you can see the actual cost of the job
Well, you can. And for some businesses this might be the right solution. It will depend on what value of annual business you have in this arena.
If the cost of the internal resource to manage the bidding process and administer the job, combined with the membership costs of the market places, is less than the annualised “plus” element of our invoicing, then you should perhaps consider it
It won’t work for everyone. But if your niche fits our niche – you could make substantial savings
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