Did you know that when the shipment exceeds 350kgs, DSV pricing goes up substantially?
The sheer size of the DSV CPT airport depot is a good reminder of what a large international company this is. Check out DSV global transport and logistics. And I love their service, especially into smaller and more remote areas. Despite the more clicks you have to endure with the DSV clientzone booking portal, compared to other sleeker software solutions like Parcel Perfect. This below is not a complaint. But a reminder, a note to self, and maybe a case study from which you can learn something as well.
EXAMPLE OF A LARGE ITEM: Where a 6% increase in actual vs quoted weight lead to a +61% increase in DSV pricing
The perfect storm. We received a quote request for a 342kg shipment. Just 8kgs or about 2% below the 350kg threshold. But the customer loaded 364.5kgs. Which is just over the limit. So, the pricing changes completely. And even though the actual weight sent was just 6% more then the weight on which the quote was based – because it now exceeded the 350kgs and the pricing structure changed; the result was that the total billable amount didn’t also increase by the 6% odd – it went up by a whopping 61%. Don’t let that happen to you. Because then you have to recoup it from your customer or take the financial knock yourself.
*SUGGESTION: if you grab a quote from DSV clientzone and you do get so close to the threshold then it would be prudent for them to notify you of the same and what could happen if you exceed it. And yes, I have suggested this to their developers. But in the case of a multinational corporation there are a few hoops to jump through before changes are implemented, understandably. Let’s hope this rolls out in a future update.
EXAMPLE OF MULTIPLE BICYCLES: Where it becomes counterintuitively & relatively more expensive per unit as you send more bicycles
This explains why out of the dozen+ service providers we use, DSV pricing seems to move in the opposite direction. IE bigger shipments are more expensive than the smaller ones in relative terms. Let’s take an example. When I send 1 bicycle on say ITT there is a certain rate but when I send 4 bikes together then they become relatively cheaper per unit. But with DSV pricing it becomes relatively more expensive per unit. Which could have been overcome be sending 4x different waybills, ie 1 per bike, but that becomes cumbersome and inefficient. With the typical boxed bicycled dims of 160*30*80 and a factor of 4000 for DSV. Which means each bike comes in at a volumetric weight of 96kgs. So just 4x bikes will pop that 350kg threshold. Good to know.
There you have it.
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