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SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND COMPUTER-PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR DETERMINING SHIPPING INCENTIVES

  • US 20140025464A1
  • Filed: 09/24/2013
  • Published: 01/23/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/21/2011
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A method for applying a shipping incentive to at least one customer, the method comprising of the steps of:

  • receiving information on one or more shipments scheduled to be made to a plurality of locales for a particular time period and shipped using a common carrier;

    for each locale, determining whether the one or more shipments being made to the particular locale meet a maximum capacity the common carrier can ship to the particular locale for the particular time period; and

    for at least one locale in which the maximum capacity is not being met by the one or more shipments being made to the at least one locale for the particular time period;

    identifying one or more customers making the one or more shipments to the at least one locale for the particular time period;

    determining an incentive, by at least one computer processor, the incentive being based on one or more new shipments being made by the one or more identified customers in addition to the one or more shipments already being made to the at least one locale for the particular time period; and

    applying the corresponding incentive for the one or more identified customers based on the one or more new shipments being made by the one or more identified customers.

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