A detailed record of shipping history can be a great indicator of many business trends. Studying shipping reports can provide an insight into predictive analysis for many business strategies.
LateShipment Shipping Reports
LateShipment.com provides clients with a detailed history of their shipping activities. The primary purpose of your LateShipment reports is to retrieve shipping refunds that you are eligible for. Each report consists of shipping details like source, destination, time of booking, time of delivery, transit details, cost of shipment, etc. Well that’s not all, your report lets you consolidate and segregate data in so many different ways that would benefit you to have an in-depth analysis of your shipping history and trends.
The greatest advantage of making use of LateShipment.com is that apart from signing up, which takes minutes; you need not bother doing anything else. You continue with your operations just as you were, earlier.
LateShipment reads your daily shipments directly from UPS or FedEx. It requires no software that is to be installed in your server. So, that also means that you need not worry about integrating all other systems with this new component. Your Fedex Refunds and UPS Refunds will apear on your invoice directly.
Needless to say, these reports are very secure and cannot be read by anyone and everyone. Account holders can view these reports. They can be viewed online, saved for later use and shared.
Why are shipping reports useful?
A post-mortem analysis of shipping reports can tell organizations what kind of shipments cost them a lot. It gives a detailed record of promised time, estimated time and actual delivery time. The client organization can make use of this to mention delivery time to their clients. More importantly, the organization can make use of this data to study what kind of a deal they can strike with their shipping carrier.
Business houses get to see where they can save money, what kind of services can be made better at the shipping carrier’s end. They get a clear idea on late shipments. They can calculate the amount of money they are eligible to get, as refunds from the shipping carrier, for the shipments that are delivered later than the promised time. This data gives them a clear picture on budgeting for the years to come, with regard to shipping expenditure.
The LateShipment customer is free of paperwork and record maintenance. They don’t need to have records of a shipment’s transit from source to destination, absolutely no paperwork hassle to the shipper. In case of any issue later on, there is a record of what happened that’s readily available.
An organization has consolidated reports of every shipment it has sent and received through its shipping carrier partner. It needn’t have personnel dedicated to watch every parcel sent out. It requires one account to track all shipping history.
Logistics solutions can be tailored after reading these reports. It tells you what time of booking the shipment takes the shipment to the destination in the fastest time. One can also view how exactly these shipments are carried- name of the vessel, voyage, route etc. tailored searches are also enabled in these systems.
Shipping reports do more than just provide a post-mortem report on what went where. For instance, if you are a retailer who sends customers shipments on a regular basis, knowing your shipping patterns and comparisons within your own business or with competitors, will help you give your shipping charges and delivery trends a major makeover, ultimately helping you to provide better customer service to your patrons.