In today’s marketplace, the widespread growth in international commerce, and the multiplication of the sources for primary materials inherent to that growth, have imposed a completely different set of rules upon logistics professionals from importing and exporting through to national and local distribution.

As the number and complexity of the these exchanges grow, the need for new management tools that enable users to master logistics chains and data, from the initial shipping point through to final fulfillment, has become more and more clear.  For this simple reason, integrating the logistics component at the earliest phase of the sourcing process, product selection, is essential in calculating the total cost of goods sold (COGS) including customs tariffs and other transportation costs in order to compare offers and to choose the best value.

Thanks to its Internet collaboration portal, DDS Shipper accelerates the sourcing process by enabling users to visualize the entire workflow and each actor therein, as well as to use the wide-ranging decisional tools to compare offers from different suppliers in various locations and the shipping costs and customs tariffs associated with each proposal.

DDS Shipper provides these key advantages for a return on investment rapid and visible:

• Minimizes of the cost of acquiring goods
• Increases productivity along the entire supply chain
• Reduces the time needed to find goods