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Servicio de Aprendizaje Nacional

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DEVELOPING
To be able to talk about transportation costs, you have to be updated throughout the

commercial and international field.

Hence, the main thing that must be taken into account, is that our points of factories and

our wholesale storage, is as close as possible to our ports of embarkation or free trade

zones.

With this, we can reduce freight costs and other expenses that can be general, by

moving our merchandise to the point of embarkation or dispatch for our final destination,

the client.

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The main points that must be taken into account for in our negotiations are the

following:

From the location of our company to dispatch the product to the subcontracting of third

parties to produce, transport and deliver the final product to the satisfaction of the client,

with the specifications and in the time that it requires, especially looking at beneficial

cost and

saving of investment to be able to obtain the qualification of a client that in turn helps us

to open more market and to be able to expand to a future, which is one of our main

objectives in the field of international negotiations.

2. The use of technology with the innovation of a better product, using new packaging

designs, to reduce its volume and weight and to increase the desity of shipment.

Hence, many products are already dry, pulverized, dehydrated, in order to be vacuum

packed and in plastic packaging, where the weight is reduced, for which a high freight

cost is paid, for which already We see products that their packaging is more flexible and

less heavy.

The packing of the same has been able to demonstrate that nowadays reusable
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material is being used and materials such as wooden boxes, cardboard wrappers etc.

are avoided. This also helps reduce transportation costs.

3- According to the principle of lean, are based on the delivery just in time, sent small,

faster and frequently using a single fleet dedicated to this type of transport, this is how

the current competition between the transports, we can find a transport more cheap and

with the same guarantees offered by others in the market.

That is why within the supply chain is seen an impact on better transportation at lower

prices and the shipment of larger loads increases the costs of shipments and

inventories and the transit time is longer, for the transit inventory and security.
Finally, the financial impact is reduced in the cost of freight and thus more income is

obtained in favor and better control of inventories.