Carrier Contract Negotiation Services
Transform your supply chain with our Carrier Contract Negotiations, where advanced analytics meet personalized strategy to deliver significant cost savings on carrier rates.
Our Contract Negotiation Expertise
Contract Evaluation
We analyze your contract and compare it against historical shipping data to uncover current rates and savings potential while identifying the most critical rates to optimize shipping costs.
Contract Creation
We evaluate the market and compare carrier bids to find the right carrier at fair rates, then negotiate favorable contract terms along with all additional services required during contract execution.
Compliance Monitoring
We assist with enacting the new terms, implementing any required software solutions, and monitoring invoices to ensure compliance with new carrier contract terms.
How Carrier Contract Negotiation Works
Successful carrier contract negotiation reduces shipping costs and improves carrier service quality by analyzing and negotiating your carrier contracts.
Overcharge and service failure data from a freight or parcel audit to leverage for negotiation.
A comprehensive understanding of the market to ensure you’re getting fair rates.
The time and experience to negotiate with parcel carriers directly.
An in-depth understanding of your shipping needs and current terms to create a goal to work towards.
A negotiation strategy that’s flexible but achieves your purpose.
Benefits of Carrier Contract Negotiation
Carrier contract negotiation is critical for controlling your shipping and transportation costs and providing consistent, high-level service to your customers.
Favorable carrier agreements can make or break your shipping. If you want to achieve these benefits and more, Zero Down can help you with the contract negotiation process.
The AAAAIM Process
We begin with a comprehensive freight audit to pinpoint cost-saving opportunities, setting the stage for our robust AAAAIM process that redefines Carrier Contract Negotiations to your advantage.
Assessment
We start by dissecting your current shipping contracts and shipment data to uncover cost-saving opportunities, crafting a baseline agreement that sets the foundation for your supply chain optimization.
Alignment
Collaborate on a strategy that resonates with your business goals, establishing a clear roadmap and participant list for negotiations that reflect your company’s needs and aspirations.
Advisement
Navigate the bid process with expert guidance, analyzing proposals and refining negotiations until the results align precisely with your vision for value and efficiency.
Agreement
Empower your decision-making with comprehensive support as you select the best-fit carrier, ensuring a smooth transition and accurate implementation of your new strategic direction.
Implementation
See your choices in action as we oversee the deployment of your carrier contracts, ensuring routing compliance and invoice accuracy that align with your operational and financial targets.
Maintenance
Stay ahead with proactive monitoring and intelligence reporting that not only maintains but elevates your freight spend efficiency, continually identifying new avenues for significant savings and optimization.
Client Success Stories & Proven Results
Ocean freight is naturally complex, generally using multiple modes of transportation for a single shipment and incurring accessorial fees throughout transport.
Total Savings
Cost Savings Potential
Parcel and Freight Carriers
Why Should Zero Down Negotiate My Carrier Contracts?
Carrier contracts can make or break your shipping operations. Poor rates cut into your bottom line while unclear terms create confusion, lowering service quality and increasing the chances of disputes. We ensure your terms are clear and favorable to help save money.
Shipping companies rely on data to set rates and negotiate deals in their favor. We also take a data-driven approach to negotiations, leveraging historical shipping data from audits to identify cost-saving opportunities and service failures that help secure better freight costs.
Shipping costs can fluctuate quickly based on factors like fuel costs and demand shifts. Our dedicated team monitors market conditions, identifying opportunities to negotiate better terms and reduce shipping costs.
FAQs
Carrier contract negotiation is the process of discussing and establishing terms that dictate how a shipper-carrier relationship operates. The carrier agreement will contain pricing information, service expectations, dispute resolution processes, and other essential information to help avoid misunderstandings.
You must prepare for the negotiation table by analyzing your current shipping contract and shipping data, setting goals, collecting carrier performance data, and researching market benchmarks.
Carrier contracts include pricing, service level agreements (SLAs), liability clauses, guarantees, termination conditions, dispute resolution, and more.
Favorable freight and parcel contract negotiations save you money, increase service quality, minimize risks, optimize efficiency, and reduce the likelihood of disruptions or misunderstandings while improving relationships with shipping companies.
Zero Down can save you up to 35% on your shipping spend and improve service quality by negotiating your freight contracts.
Not necessarily. We can work with your existing carrier in addition to engaging other parcel and freight carriers to present you with all your options and help you find the best terms.
You should consider renegotiating carrier contracts annually or when there’s a significant change in market conditions or your business needs.
At Zero Down, our extensive negotiation and market experience ensures you get the best shipping rates and terms without any surprises. We also use data-driven strategies to identify cost-effective improvements and opportunities for refunds after implementing the new contract terms to save you even more on shipping.
To get started, request a free demo with one of our supply chain specialists to see how we can help you save.