UPS Value-Added Freight Services
Overview:
UPS air, ocean, ground and rail/intermodal freight services all can be tailored to individual customer needs and can be combined with additional UPS services such as UPS Customs Brokerage, UPS Supplier Management and direct-to-store/customer solutions. These value-added freight offerings give customers a range of competitive advantages including speed to market, regulatory compliance assistance and maximizing visibility across the supply chain.
Value-Added Freight Offerings:
Among UPS’s value-added freight offerings are the following key offerings:
- UPS Supplier Management: UPS helps customers proactively manage their overseas suppliers at the critical front end of the supply chain to keep the entire supply chain moving smoothly. Key components of UPS’s supplier management offering include:
- Vendor compliance and order management to ensure customers receive the right shipments at the right time
- Regulatory compliance management to ensure a smooth customs process
- Origin distribution services including shipment consolidation, pick-and-pack, pre-distribution, warehousing, distribution center bypass and customs clearance
- Transportation management on local and international level
- Global information management to track shipment events and milestones
- UPS Customs Brokerage: With more than 80 years of collective experience in customs brokerage and international trade management, UPS acts as a single source for global brokerage services. UPS’s focus on compliance management helps reduce cargo delays and costs associated with non-compliance to customs regulations. UPS freight customers have access to UPS’s:
- 350 licensed brokers in more than 60 countries around the world
- Flexible EDI solutions and document imaging for easy archiving, retrieval and centralized entry processing
- Industry-leading compliance and trade management technology tools
- UPS Trade Direct®: With UPS Trade Direct® companies can bypass distribution centers by shipping directly to retail stores or customers' doors. Leveraging the breadth and reliability of the UPS global network, Trade Direct provides consolidation of international freight, air, ocean and ground transportation, customs clearance and direct delivery to multiple addresses within the destination country, all through a single source. Offerings include:
- UPS Trade Direct Air improves international supply chain efficiency by accelerating speed to market and increasing visibility and control.
- UPS Trade Direct Cross Border offers pickup and delivery across the Mexico/U.S. and Canada/U.S. borders
- UPS Trade Direct Ocean removes days from the supply chain by delivering goods from overseas directly to customer locations
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