Insights

LOGISTICS ADVISORY PTY LTD writes on the operating problems Australian importers, manufacturers and distributors keep paying for: the visible rate, the dirty declaration, unnamed risk, a 3PL contract that cannot be audited, a buffer in the wrong node, and an Incoterm copied from the last purchase order.

Six operating questions

Freight cost as a stack rather than a rate. Importer obligations that still sit on the importer when a broker lodges. Risk as a named failure rather than a mood. 3PL contracts that can be audited from a file you hold. Inventory as a transport decision. Incoterms that match the people who actually move the cargo.

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Where freight cost actually sits

The rate is visible. The rest of the invoice is where a review pays for itself.

Importer obligations and ABF

The declaration sits on the importer, even when a broker lodges it.

Supply chain risk after the last disruption

A hedge that cannot name its failure is a comfort purchase.

What a 3PL contract should actually say

If you do not hold the data, you do not hold the exit.

Inventory is a transport decision

Buffers in the wrong node are invoices, not insurance.

Incoterms that match the physical move

Copying FOB from the last PO is not a program.

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