Lean Parcel Shipping with OSCO

Order Shipment Cost Optimization (OSCO) software automates selection of optimal shipping box / boxes to cut shipping, labor and material costs while making the packaging and shipping more eco-friendly.

OSCO is a small footprint, high performance, aggressively priced solution with a high Return On Investment (ROI). Easy integration with WMS and order processing systems makes it a snap to integrate with existing order processing systems.

Key Features and Benefits

OSCO generates solutions that use smallest and least number of boxes for order shipment
1. Finds solutions which reduce Dimensional weight
  1. Air Shipments and International Shipments: Carriers charge greater of the Dim weight or actual weight.
  2. Domestic Ground Shipments: Carriers charge greater of Dim weight or actual weight for large parcels that are light in weight.
2. Finds least number of boxes to use for parcel shipment
  1. Fewer the number of shipment cartons, lower the shipment cost
OSCO generates cube optimized solution
1. Reduces size of the shipping carton. This allows use of cube/density based shipping options, in addition to weight based options, to reduce cost of large orders
2. Option to ship large orders via LTL (FedEx and UPS have integrated LTL options into their system) and cube based optimization is critical for reducing LTL shipping cost
OSCO implements shipment standardizations and helps reduce mistakes
1. Reduces shipping cost by using one vendor to get volume discounts. (OSCO can reduce number of orders that need special shipping methods)
2. Avoid the need to use oversize boxes that are expensive to ship by optimally dividing shipments into multiple standard size boxes
3. Enforces weight limits per shipment box to prevent over-weight penalties
OSCO generates solutions to reduce material cost
1. Reduces corrugated costs by using smaller and fewer shipping boxes
2. Reduces packing material cost by maximizing cube utilization, thus need to use less packing/filler materials such as bubble wrap, air bags, packing peanuts
OSCO reduces environmental waste
1. Minimizes corrugated material use/waste
2. Minimizes fill material use/waste
3. Reduces fuel usage and CO2 emissions by creating solutions that use fewer and smaller shipping cartons as they take less space during transportation
Automatic selection of shipment box and manifest generation
1. OSCO helps reduce labor cost
  1. Eliminates labor time wasted in searching / trying for the right size box
  2. Eliminates labor time wasted when order does not fit in the selected box, resulting in redundant labor spent in transferring items to bigger box
  3. Eliminates labor spent creating or modifying packing/manifest list (pick list) for each shipping box
OSCO helps determine shipping cost at time of order placement
1. Provide accurate shipping cost estimate to Client/Buyer
2. Reduce risk of shopping cart abandonment by providing correct shipping cost to customer. NetIQ study found that consumers attribute 35% of their abandoned carts to high shipping costs and lengthy delivery times
3. Estimating and quoting too low shipping will result in losses that cannot be passed on to the customer
OSCO can be easily integrated with WMS / Order processing systems
1. Designed for easy integration with existing WMS/Order processing systems
2. Some of the interfaces available are:
  1. .NET API's
  2. TCP/IP Sockets communication
  3. File Based I/O (CSV, Text, XML)
  4. JAVA API's
3. Typical integration time is about 1 week (can be as little as 1-3 days)
4. Requires minimal changes to customer's existing order processing system
OSCO 3D client / user interface (Optional)
1. Shows 3 dimensional rendering of loaded shipping box
2. Shows step by step loading sequence
3. Allows interactive order creation and modification for verification and testing

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