Transportation Management Consulting

TRANSPORTATION

Cost Reduction

• Market Rates, Mode Optimization, Zone Skipping, Dedicated Carriage versus Common Carrier

Partner Selection

• Structured RFPs, Balanced Decision Making, Best of Breed selection

Transportation Rate Analysis Compass (TRAC)

• How do this year's rate hikes by FedEx and UPS impact your shipping program?
• Price changes are never across the board – so your freight costs may be way out of line
• TRAC builds your profile from actual shipments, up to 3 Million records can be analyzed
• Identifies key lanes impacted
• Focused business intelligence that gives you the upper-hand in rate negotiations
• Cost effective solution
• Rapid Results: 72 hour turn-around time

Site Location

• Math Modeling, Multi dimensional inputs, Balanced Selection Criteria

Trade Compliance

• Denied Parties List, Classifications, foreign trade zones

SUPPLY CHAIN

Cost Reduction

• Transportation, Warehouse utilization, Automation, Intelligent partner integration

Lean Manufacturing Best Practices

• Outsource Non Value Added Service – Freight
• Payment, Global Compliance, Fabrication, Contract
• Manufacturing

Strategic Sourcing

• Selection process, Contracting, Metrics

Business Intelligence

• Informatics ®, IBM COGNOS ®, SQL

Business Process Re-engineering

• Reverse Logistics
• Liquidations, Refurbishing, Same Unit Repairs, Inside Warranty, Outside Warranty
• Forward Logistics
• Direct Ship, 3PL, Routing Compliance
• E-Business (Partner Integration)
• EDI, XML and Webservices

ERP Deployments

• Oracle, Siebel, JD Edwards