May 27, 2025

What Your Shipping Data Is Trying to Tell You

Here’s What Your Data Can Reveal (If You’re Looking):

1. Service Mismatch

Are you paying for Express when Ground would arrive just as fast?
We compare delivery performance across your lanes to identify where you're overspending for speed you don’t need.

2. Zone Creep

Are your shipments drifting into higher-cost zones over time?
This can happen subtly — and inflate your rates fast, especially with residential or rural deliveries.

3. Weight & Dim Errors

Are dimensional billing changes quietly inflating your invoice?
We spot where package dimensions and weights don’t match expectations — a key input for better rate negotiation.

4. Repeat Offenders

Are certain locations, packages, or customers triggering late deliveries or exceptions?
Pattern detection helps you proactively fix recurring problems.

5. Carrier Trends

Are surcharge categories growing faster than your volume?
We track the rise of fuel, DAS, and accessorial fees so you don’t just absorb them — you fight back with data.

📉 The Cost of Ignoring Your Shipping Data

When you only look at the total spend and not what’s driving it, you miss the why behind the number.
That’s where cost control turns into cost guessing.

Without clear visibility into performance, contract terms, and real-world shipping behavior, you’re negotiating blind — and losing margin with every shipment.

🛠 How RCS Helps You Use Your Data the Smart Way

We start with Weekly Audit, recovering refunds for late deliveries and billing errors.
But behind that is a real-time stream of shipping intelligence you can use to:

  • Renegotiate carrier contracts
  • Set better free shipping thresholds
  • Optimize packaging and DIM weights
  • Identify at-risk delivery lanes
  • Make decisions with confidence

You already have the data — we help you turn it into savings.

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