OSCO Return on Investment

Using OSCO for most optimal box selection provides multiple cost savings. Most common benefits include: reduction in shipping/carrier charges, reduction in shipping material cost, reduction in labor cost via increased automation, decreased shopping cart abandonment cases, and eliminating un-expected shipping cost surcharges.

Shipping and material cost

OSCO selects the smallest and least number of boxes to use for a shipment. Smaller (lighter) box can reduce total shipment weight and cost by changing the shipment weight category
- Typical shipping/carrier cost savings are from 3% - 15%
- Typical corrugated cost savings are 10% - 25%
OSCO can create packaging solutions to avoid DIM weight and Oversize charges
- DIM weight and Oversize surcharges can increase the shipping cost by 10% - 200%
- Typical oversize surcharge is $55

Accurate shipping quotes to avoid losing customers

Estimating shipping cost based on weight or volume can result in either losing customers due to overestimating shipping cost or incurring shipping losses due to underestimating shipping cost
- 57% of shopping carts are abandoned due to higher than expected shipping cost
- Assuming an order will ship at actual weight versus being shipped in multiple boxes, oversize box, or at DIM weight can result in shipping cost losses of 10% - 200%. In one case this problem was so bad that the online retailer resorted to assuming that each item would ship in a separate box, resulting in customer loss due to overestimation
Best solution is to get an accurate rate quote from shipping carriers at time of order placement by using OSCO upstream to determine the shipping configuration (number of boxes, size of boxes, and weight of each box)
- Prevents shipping losses by getting accurate shipping rate quote at time of order placement (in real time)
- Keep customers from abandoning shopping carts by providing them with an accurate and good shipping rate

Automation to reduce labor cost and errors

Reduce labor costs
- Save 2 - 5 minutes per order searching for right size box/boxes
- Automatically generate picklist/packlist
  - Eliminate manually entering pick/pack list data
  - Eliminate errors due to manual entry of data
- Generate shipping labels ahead of time (without need for manual data entry)
Check for packing errors by verifying actual package weight against expected package weight calculated by OSCO