OSCO: Parcel Shipping Cost Optimization Software

OSCO enables automatic selection of the most cost effective shipping box per order to reduce shipping, labor and material costs. It also generates detailed pick and pack instructions, and accurate shipping rate quotes at the time of order placement.

OSCO uses the size and weight of items to determine the right size box size(s) to fulfill an order by reducing DIM weight (dimensional weight), multi-box & over-size charges. OSCO is sophisticated enough to support specific business rules for box selection & item placement (e.g. max weight per carton, loading orientation, nesting/stacking, Hazmat, etc.) as part of carton selection process.

OSCO works seamlessly across various POS and ERP systems, and generates reduction in shipping costs, increase in packing productivity, labor cost savings and decrease in shopping cart abandonment due to inaccurate/lack of shipping rate quotes when an order is placed.

OSCO can help you whether you do 20 orders or 20,000 orders per day, with a typical 1 YR ROI of 100% - 200%. Implementation time is 1 to 2 weeks and we have 99% success rate of integration with various WMS, ERP, POS and shopping cart software systems.

Reduce Shipping / Shipment Costs and Environmental Waste

Reduce DIM Weight (dimensional weight) Charges
- Ship at actual weight by optimizing shipping box size selection and / or splitting order into multiple boxes
- Box size determines if rate is based on actual weight vs DIM weight (dimensional weight)
- Less void space = Less DIM weight

Reduce Multi-Box & Oversize Charges
- Split shipment into standard size boxes
- Ship in smaller / fewer boxes
- Box size can affect shipment weight category
- Save on packing material cost

Increase Productivity and Reduce Labor Costs

Per Carton Packing Instructions
- Automatically generate packing slips / manifests for each shipment box at time of order processing
- Manifest includes details of all items that should be loaded per box and the total shipment weight of each box

Packing Instructions Save Labor Time
- Cut labor time in half for packaging & shipping using OSCO generated packing list and removing the manual effort of having to search for the right size box / boxes
- Increase productivity and ship more boxes in less time

Quote Real-Time & Accurate Shipping Rates at Time of Order Placement

Get accurate shipping rate from carrier based on OSCO's packing information
- OSCO utilizes the packing information and gets shipping rates from the carrier directly at the time of order placement
- Packing information from OSCO can also be used by your existing shipping software to get accurate shipping rate at the time of order placement

Avoid shipping cart abandonment & Gain back potential lost sales
- Based on a study by UPS and ComScore in June 2014, 57% of shopping carts are abandoned due to higher than expected shipping rate
- With OSCO, no more estimation needed for shipping rates
- Accurate shipping rates = Happy customers & Happy customers & Stronger Bottom-line

Increase Quality Control on Order Fulfillment

Check for errors using OSCO's packing information per order
- Compare actual package weight against expected package weight calculated by OSCO
- Eliminate chance of missing items by following packing instructions from OSCO
- Improve customer satisfaction

Use OSCO's historical package data to validate customer complaints
- Verify customer's missing item claims against OSCO's pick-to-pack information for a specific order
- Save precious time and dollars in researching and compensating customers for false claims

Easy Customization of Business Specific Loading Rules

Incorporate special packing rules, e.g. :-
- Mixing hazmat and non-hazmat
- Breakables vs. heavy / bulky items
- Strapping / bundling for pre-packed items
- Orientation (upright vs. horizontal)
- Nesting / stacking
- Foldable / roll-able
- Self-ship (pre-packed)

Shipments from Multiple Warehouses
- Orders are automatically split up and optimized to ship from multiple warehouses

Additional Advanced Configurable Features of OSCO

Special box - selection rules (e.g. perishables in foam containers)
Adding dry-ice / gel-packs based on weight and allocating space in box to support the right number of dry-ice / gel-packs

Create optimized box size to use with the box making machines (box size generated will obey all the loading rules and the rules to avoid oversize or DIM weight charges)