1690 Watertower Place, Suite 100
East Lansing, Michigan 48823-6382
Phone: 517-347-0555
Fax: 517-347-0917
Effective
Shipment Management Of Inbound
Materials Or Outbound Finished Goods Includes:
- Processing of
shipping invoices and other relevant data to develop a freight data
base for analysis
- Analysis of
freight data to determine trends and flows
Inbound
vs. outbound shipments
Shipping and receiving locations
Transportation modes
Weight per day, week, shipment
Lanes (origin-destination combinations)
Carriers
Cost variances due to volume or price
- Freight cost
reporting for management decision analysis
- Identification
of cost reduction opportunities
Rate
negotiation
Carrier request for proposal (bid) / carrier
selection
Consolidation of buying leverage
Shipment
consolidation/distribution/sweeps/milk-runs
Dedicated operations
- Implementation
of agreed-to cost reduction opportunities
- On-going
measurement of performance and monitoring of additional opportunities
for cost reduction
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March 2, 2008