Why Freight forwarder need to control their cost
Why Freight forwarder need to control their cost At a time when shipping lines are coming together to push for online freight sales the freight forwarder need to do some serious soul searching too. I am not talking about the MNC and big forwarders who can afford to spend on the high end technology. There are still thousands of forwarders who are keeping good distance from technology for one or the other reason and this is eventually costing them dearly. Are freight forwarders doing enough to be efficient ? Have you realized how much time your sales and pricing team spend on just generating quotes ? Are you keeping the count on the number of quotes got generated in a month by your team and for which lanes? Are you following up on all those quotes submitted ? Are you able to analyse why you lost out on the business you quoted for ? You can analyse only if you had this above data ...