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AS PRICES plummet and soar at the gas pump, calculating and managing shipping costs can be a real drain on a retailer’s busi- ness. There’s no getting around the need to move goods from sellers to buyers, but the costs involved (from researching many shipping rates to grappling with big carriers who give good rates to bigger companies than yours) can really eat into an indepen- dent retailer’s time and profi ts. A new company, Lower Shipping Cost Technologies, started up just this year in order to offer a well tested tool to new custom- ers who want a way out of this logistical logjam. The company’s premiere service is an online system that lets customers fi nd the best shipping option with a minimum of fuss. Lower Shipping Cost Tech-
nologies (LSC) developed the system from the ground up as a tool to minimize shipping costs. “Our own in-house IT depart- ment developed this shipping management tool,” says informa- tion technology manager, Star Wang, “to fi nd the lowest cost to move product.” LSC achieves this with a two-prong approach. First, LSC offers the system for use in compiling information. “It lists the estimated charges for all the carriers, and the delivery dates offered,” says Wang. “We continued on page 76
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