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Increasingly, carriers are looking at package cube when pricing transportation. Why? because virtually every form of transportation, from airplanes to truck trailers, rail, ocean, and air freight, tends to "cube out" before it reaches it's maximum weight capacity. And this recent change is reflected in the ever tightening DIM factors that carriers have introduced over the past two years.
What is cube optimization? It means right-sizing your packages and fitting your orders into packaging dimensions that are as small as possible without threatening the integrity of the order.
Cube optimization analysis is a study of actual weight versus dimensional weight with the objective of reducing or eliminating dimensional weight charges in favor of actual weight charges.
Merchants...