07/09/2018
FREIGHT FORARDING ADVANTAGES
WE ARE HERE TO GET IT THERE FOR YOU
As a wholesale and manufacturing companies grow and expand, figuring out how to keep up with the number of shipments that need to be sent to customers domestically and abroad becomes increasingly challenging. Some larger companies choose to keep up by expanding their own in – house shipping function, but typically this requires a great deal of investment in logistics to bring in the human and other resources skill and technology and other associate cost needed to keep things running smoothly.
For some companies, this kind of investment is either impossible or undesirable. Smaller companies often cannot afford the resources to manage higher volumes of domestics/international and other complex shipping requirements. Other companies may simply prefer to keep their focus on the things they do best (their products) ---- building and selling greats products and leave the work of getting those products to their destinations to companies that specialized in these important business functions.
What the small or medium sized manufacturer to do when they need to move products to other locations or regions where they lack contacts and knowledge to manage the logistic process.
The companies have several options for handling this situation: one of the most popular is freight forwarding.
FREIGHT FORWARDING: - This is a business arrangement in which a third party company arranges storage and shipping of merchandize on behalf of its customers.
Freight forwarders specialize in lowering cost and facilitating the logistics of transportation. Third party logistics providers provide a broader range of services and may offer these services at a higher cost than freight forwarder.
Freight forwarding companies provide the following:
Tracking: - freight forwarding firms arrange and keep track of shipments as they move by land and Air.
Preparing shipment documents: - This is an area where freight forwarding really shine. They ship in volumes they have specialize knowledge of the documentation that is required.
Ware housing: - freight forwarders either run their own war housing in several locations or they can lease space within their net working.
Booking Cargo Space: - Knowing who to call when to ship to certain location, and which carriers are best at serving which destination, gives freight forwarder an advantage when it comes to shipping international and domestics.
Negotiating freight charges: - because freight forwarders frequently ship high volumes of goods, they can negotiate better prices from a transportation company.
Freight Consolidation: - Turning several small shipments containing goods from several customers into one large shipment at a reduces cost.
Arranging Cargo Insurance: - Because of high volume of shipment that freight forwarding firms handles, they have extensive knowledge of the in and out of obtaining coverage for shipments and dealing with insurance should anything go wrong with a shipment.
Freight forwarding companies typically ship their goods under their own bills of lading when the shipment arrives at the destination, freight forwarding associates at the destination handles the shipment on their relationship basis.
Choose Aul System Nigeria Limited today because of the following:
• Knowledge of the logistics industry
• The ability of the leverage volume to reduce cost
• Global / Nationwide networks of freight forwarding agents.
• Same day delivery (SDD)
• Security and ability to deliver as sent.
For more details call Ade 08032484443 or email us at [email protected]
