by Corona Man » Thu Dec 21, 2017 9:56 am
Booney wrote:The Ash Man wrote:Corona Man wrote:Off topic - The Toll bloke ahem "looking after us" here in Melb, wanted to put his prices up by more than double...... the door is over there mate, don't let it smack you in the back of the head on the way out.
I have couriers and freight forwarders calling or coming to the office at least once a week.
I made up a spreadsheet of what we pay to each destination which is about 20% cheaper than what we actually pay.
My Secretary now plays as "gatekeeper", hands them the spreadsheet and says if you can beat these prices you can talk to the boss!!
Works a treat
Same, same.
I've got an xls of freight sizes, weights and destinations and when a rep comes in I send them that in an email and ask them to send it back to me with their cost ( inc fuel, gst ) fill in and I've got a macro I can run when they send it back to bring up the %age difference between what we pay now and what their charge is.
I've managed to cut our local and national freight bill by around 12% (in like for like circumstances) in the last two years by shopping around.
If you don't mind me asking, what's your annual freight spend?
Ours is near on $200k pa. That's just for Australia, we have separate accounts for NZ & Asia.
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