Through our 15 years of experience, Princeton Profit Associates has developed services to make your small parcel shipping easier, your costs more efficient, and your management staff more effective.

Review our services below to see how we can tailor one or more services to fit your needs. If you don’t see what you’re looking for, please call us, we are adding additional services all the time.

Freight Audit and Recovery	Invoice Management Services & Reporting
Rate Negotiation	Freight Payment

Freight Audit & Recovery

Every Monday, PPA will receive your electronic invoices from your carrier for the previous week's shipments. Every Tuesday, you will receive a revised shipping invoice from PPA, with each shipment audited, and every service failure and surcharge error removed; Already approved by your carrier. All you do is pay a lower bill. And we reorganized the data to your specifications for better planning and cost allocation.

SureTrak analyzes over 16 different points on EVERY invoice, everyday, 365 days a year! Now that is productivity.

	Account Number		Weight Verification
	Duplicated Airway Bill		Dimension Check
	Duplicated Invoice		Rate Verification
	Proof of Delivery		Damage
	Late Delivery		Valid Delivery Date
	Third Party Usage		Saturday Charge
	Weather Exception		COD Charge
	Holiday Exception		Duplicated Charge

We can customize additional tests to meet your company's individual needs.


Invoice Management and Reporting Services

SureTrak is a report generator, too. Need marketing statistics, need to know who used your account number, how would you like to allocate shipping costs back to the department in your company that shipped it , or have your data GL coded for better uploading into your accounting system??

See our reporting section for additional information or contact your sales representative for additional reports and services.

Every shipment creates a wealth of information about the effectiveness of your business. Through our years of information analysis, we have created some statistical reports that can quantify and communicate many important aspects of your business. The standard reports are FREE with the service. Here are just a few in our standard report:

		Shipments by area code Usually used to see how effective national marketing campaigns work in specific geographical areas
		Who used your account number last month Good tool to allocate costs back to vendors or other people that use your account number
		Amount each department within your organization shipped Amazing tool to track and allocate shipping costs
		Package Detail Report Every detail about each package
		Daily Shipping Activity Report Summary of shipping volume for each day
		Cost Center Allocation Report Shipping cost allocated to each cost center
		Service Type Report Summary of service types
		Reference Data Report Summary of your reference data
		Credit List Report List of each credit approved by carrier
		Miscellaneous charges A way to change shipping behavior to reduce costs, or a way to analyze if you need to charge customers when they do something that is not considered standard by your carrier.

Below is a Sample Report generated on "ABC Corp"

ABC Corp Sample Report

Rate Negotiation

Leverage 15 years of industry experience and knowledge to negotiate the right small parcel services, at the best possible price. Many companies possess the requisite skill and capability to perform the basic function of procurement and supplier contract negotiations. However, in the parcel shipping industry, due to the complexity of the different rate plans, service offerings, marketing and negotiation practices- the customer’s leverage in the market is being eroded. Ask yourself the following questions:

		Are you paying more or less than other similar customers?
		Are you confident that your service and rate plans are best for you?
		Should you change carriers to receive better performance?
		Will you need to pay more to get improved service?
		Can you receive both reduced costs and better delivery performance?
		What's the best method to re-negotiate your carrier contract?
		Can you easily identify and eliminate wasteful shipping behavior?

Are you starting to sense an information disadvantage? Have you already experienced how the process of carrier negotiations can be extremely frustrating and overly complex because the carrier seemingly holds all of the cards? Although your Rep may provide good and friendly service, the carrier may not provide all of the available options. If you need to write an RFP, it can be difficult to know what specs and variables to use in order to foster competitive and meaningful proposals.

How it Works: We turn a disadvantage into a profitable advantage. Carrier Negotiation Assistance (CNA) from Princeton Profit Associates (PPA) is the sure way to obtain the right services at the best possible cost from your parcel carriers. Through many years of experience with FedEx, UPS and DHL, PPA will turn a disadvantage into your profitable advantage. PPA will ensure that you make the most informed decisions to help you get the maximum value from your carrier contract negotiations. If it is possible that you are entitled to lower costs or additional services, PPA can help. Through the CNA service you will have the assurance of an expert and objective third opinion from PPA.


Freight Payment

Please contact an account representative for more information.