If you’re a Canadian company bringing multiple small shipments from the US into Canada, chances are you could save on your shipping costs by using a cross dock service just south of the border in Blaine, WA. This type of service can go by the name of package forwarding, US package receiving or inbound prepaid freight. Regardless of what it’s called, there are tremendous savings if you partner with the right company on the US side of the border. To be truly effective and problem-free, you need a company that:
Bar codes and tracks every shipment
Provides online visibility to all shipments and their status
Provides you or your broker all necessary paperwork the same day the shipment arrives
Offers courier delivery to anywhere in the lower mainland, Vancouver Island and beyond
Can handle consolidated shipments, low value shipments (LVS) or shipments with values over $1600
Built within P3PL is the Task Management Tool used internally by ProPack to streamline internal processes, saving our clients valuable time and money. The Task Management Tool allows us to create task records that that can be assigned to specific departments and individuals for any internal task. These records can be related to a specific client, a specific order, SKU or job.
An example would be creating a task to monitor the progress of a carrier call tag on our clients behalf. The call tag is created and is initially assigned to the Returns Department. Once the call tag is received and logged, the task is updated and immediately in real time reassigned to the Customer Service Department (from where our clients are notified).
Another example would be creating a task for a client inventory request. Through the Task Management Tool we can schedule the physical inventory count, report the results and make necessary updates quickly and efficiently. Creating the task within the Task Management Tool will automatically notify the owner or department so that the task can be scheduled at the most efficient time of the day.
Each new task record allows us to add a category, assign a priority level, input a due date, add notes along the way and manage the time spent working on a specific task with a stop watch and direct billing feature. All of these features allow us to perform tasks more rapidly and proficiently, saving our clients and ProPack valued time and money.
If you have a business in Western Canada that ships product to customers in the US, there is a good chance you need a quality Third Party Logistics partner on the US side of the border. ProPack offers cutting edge order fulfillment, freight forwarding and warehouse cross dock services designed to get your product to your US customers quickly and accurately. Please go to our website to find out more, at www.propack.com.
ProPack is located in Blaine Washington, less than one mile from the US-Canada border. The company has been in business for 20 years. We make use of very robust custom built technology to achieve a high level of accuracy and speed. This technology also provides online visibility to your supply chain activity. We take the stress out of the distribution part of your business to allow you more time for marketing and product development.
If you have a business in western Canada that brings goods in from the US, you may need a consolidation point on the south side of the border. At ProPack, we call this our North Bound Package/Freight Forwarding Service. This service gives you a US address for your vendors to ship to. Once in our Blaine warehouse the shipments can be consolidated, cleared at the border as one clearance and delivered to your door. This is a prompt and low-cost way of getting your goods across the border. With our robust custom built technology, you have complete online visibility to the entire process.
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