Transportation forecaster FTR Associates reported that shippers should expect to see trucking capacity tightening now at the end of 2012 and throughout 2013, due to increasing freight demand combined with looming regulations restricting driver productivity.
You know how that will translate: higher prices, fewer options for shippers. Supply chain cost savings become paramount to combat the economic situation. Data2Logistics is poised to help with its Professional Services Group’s offerings to reduce supply chain costs associated with product transportation. These provisions include provide focused business intelligence resources to support functions relating to pooled purchasing, RFP management, carrier negotiations, TMS software, inbound routing, and network analysis, along with informed audit and freight payment services. Data2Logistics has found these areas to be of widespread need throughout the supply chain industry, reducing excess cost associated with organization’s logistics.
Data2Logistics Professional Services Group’s objective is to utilize the company’s business intelligence technology, subject matter expertise and knowledge of the marketplace to enhance transportation operations, improve service and reduce related expenses. They identify opportunities to remove excess cost out of end-to-end supply chains to drive company’s profitability, a primary and prominent position of action of supply chain professionals faced with costs of increasing economic, geopolitical and environmental volatility.
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