Why use GTG for your courier services

•  Are you a small or medium enterprise? 

• Do you require direct delivery courier services, either BtoB or BtoC?

• Are your requirements irregular and/or fluctuate in volume?

• Are you working with one or more courier companies?

• Would you like to ensure the service cost is the best you can get?

• If your answer to these questions is yes, then you should read on:-

Where a customer of courier services has a set, regular pattern of required deliveries, the courier businesses they use are able to schedule the work-load into their daily or weekly operations. This is logistically efficient and allows for a best price negotiation.  

• orders to fulfil as soon as possible
• needs services at short notice
• unpredictable delivery requirements
• a constantly changing or evolving customer base 
• a lower level of requirement 

It becomes very difficult for any courier company to schedule and deal with efficiently

They will look to one of the “open market courier networks”.

The job is posted online on an app, and there is a bidding process by available drivers. 

• All drivers on these networks are properly vetted and hold appropriate insurances - including goods in transit
• The networks operate on a feedback loop, so the track record of any driver is in the public domain, accessible before booking
• These are real time live market places. In other words, the best price bid secures the job
• The best price will depend on a number of factors but where the bidding driver actually is in relation to collection point at the time is generally a key component. The more drivers available the better the quote 
• As the majority of the bidding drivers are owner operators, they have little in the way of overheads and fixed operating costs – so best price is good

So this solution is effective and efficient as it matches the customers demand with the best placed resource to undertake the job

Usually, the rate that the established courier business of choice would ordinarily charge. This will be a rate for an immediate/urgent service. And the charge will necessarily include an element of the businesses fixed operating costs – warehousing, vehicle fleet costs, paye drivers, office staff, administration, management, directors etc etc  

Access to the live market places and the real time lowest cost for your job. Obviously, we have our own costs and therefore we have to operate on a cost plus basis. But you can have full transparency so that you can see the actual cost of the job 

Well, you can. And for some businesses this might be the right solution. It will depend on what value of annual business you have in this arena. 

If the cost of the internal resource to manage the bidding process and administer the job, combined with the membership costs of the market places, is less than the annualised “plus” element of our invoicing, then you should perhaps consider it 

It won’t work for everyone. But if your niche fits our niche – you could make substantial savings 

• There is no commitment

• You can try our service to see if we can deliver savings

• You can use our service as an addition to an existing provider

• Contact us to find out more or to discuss in more detail