ParcelAdvisor brings your agreements, shipments, invoices, carrier proposals, and the constant stream of carrier changes together, so you can prove what changed your costs, evaluate the next proposal against the priorities you define, and continuously orchestrate your parcel network.
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Cost per package moved above the six-month baselineToday
Contract compliance review is ready2d
Earned-discount tier position needs attention5d
Fuel surcharge table changed for this billing cycle7d
Cost per package$14.86 /pkg
Cost/pkg · trailing 6mo
Rate compliance$8.7K
Overbilled · trailing 3mo
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Parcel cost leadership briefv3 · Updated · Shared
Carrier pricing changes are driving your parcel costs up.
How much have my parcel costs increased over the last 12 months, and what are the main drivers?
Activity11 steps
On comparable shipments, average cost increased $1.93 per package, or 11.4%.
Starting average cost
$17.00 /pkg
Current average cost
$18.93 /pkg
Increase per package
+$1.93 /pkg · +11.4%
Carrier pricing and rule changes accounted for 7.8 percentage points. Market fuel and the governing agreement added the remaining 3.6 points.
Main drivers
UPS 2026 rates, accessorials, and delivery areas
+$0.96/pkglargest driver
UPS Ground fuel-table updates
+$0.37/pkg3 updates
Market fuel movement
+$0.36/pkgmarket movement
Governing agreement
+$0.24/pkgadded cost
Demand-surcharge changes provided small offsets. New cubic-handling criteria did not change cost for these shipments.
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How much have my parcel costs increased over the last 12 months, and what are the main drivers?
Activity11 steps
On comparable shipments, average cost per package increased 11.4%.
Starting
$17.00
Current
$18.93
Increase
+$1.93 /pkg
Carrier pricing and rule changes drove 7.8 points; market fuel and the governing agreement accounted for the rest.
Carrier proposal.pdfPDF document
What is this proposal worth against our current agreement, and how much of the 11.4% cost-increase benchmark does it offset?
Pressure-test the proposal value.
What happens to that $427K annual value if volume rises 20%, falls 20%, or we assume another 5.9% carrier rate increase?
Show me the affected invoices and the contract language this was checked against.
Activity3 steps
Opened the affected invoices
Reconciled eligible Ground charges
Retrieved the governing agreement terms
The discount shortfall appears on four current invoices.
Ground base transportation
$8,930
2nd Day Air base transportation
$3,550
Contract sourceBase agreement + active amendments
Keep watching this after each completed billing cycle. Alert me when the measured difference exceeds $5,000.
Contract discount complianceReady to save
Trigger
Measured difference exceeds $5,000
Scope
Base transportation charges covered by the agreement
Evaluation
Each completed billing cycle
Output
Pulse report with invoices, services, and terms
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Analyze DIM impact by box size over the last six months.
Activity3 steps
Queried six months of packages with dimension and weight evidence
Compared dimensional and actual-weight pricing
Grouped the cost difference by box size
DIM weight added $54.2K versus actual-weight pricing.
Two box sizes generated 61% of the six-month impact.
20 × 16 × 14
$18.4K34%
18 × 14 × 12
$14.7K27%
16 × 12 × 10
$9.2K17%
Other box sizes
$11.9K22%
How much did minimum charges add last month, and which services were most affected?
Activity3 steps
Retrieved last month's minimum-charge results
Grouped affected packages by service
Measured impact and hit rate
Minimum charges added $1,985.21.
Ground accounted for $1,186.40, or 59.8% of the total.
Ground
$1,186.4043.8% hit rate
Economy, less than 1 lb
$366.24100% hit rate
Next Day Air Saver
$214.655.6% hit rate
Other services
$217.92combined
Find a like-for-like Zone 5, 40 lb Ground residential package from this year and one year ago. How much did the cost change, and what drove it?
Activity3 steps
Matched service, zone, weight, and residential delivery
Reconciled each charge component
Measured the year-over-year difference
The comparable package cost $3.80 more, a 13.72% increase.
One year ago
$27.70
Current
$31.50
Difference
+$3.80
Fuel
+$1.59$4.96 → $6.55
Base transportation
+$1.22$9.84 → $11.06
Additional handling
+$0.67$8.72 → $9.39
Residential surcharge
+$0.32$4.18 → $4.50
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