DEDICATED FLEETS
Scope
Establish has the experience, expertise and tools to optimize the utilization of your dedicated transportation fleet, whether it consists of vans, flat beds, tractor trailers, courier cars, reefers, box trucks, etc.
Objectives
Establish can help you reduce your road freight costs significantly while securing consistent and competitive shipping service to your customers. For dedicated fleets, the focus is to optimize the utilization of the fleet while meeting the service level and transit time requirements.
Optimize routing structure
Improve the procedures and routines around transportation management
Evaluate dedicated fleet vs outsourced transportation services
Improve service level and transit time
Deliverables
Every project is different, but typically, the main deliverables are:
1. Benchmark
Benchmark costs for the dedicated fleet and quantitative and qualitative observations against comparable fleets or outsourced solutions.
2. Routing Analysis
Evaluate of the potential improvements that can increase service and/or decrease the costs
3. Best Practice Analysis
Create a hands-on action list based on an evaluation of the shipping processes compared to best practices
Methodology
Establish has unique qualifications within transportation consulting services:
Experience
Establish has a long and hands-on experience in the transportation market and in-house shipping operations.
Tools
Evaluation tools to ensure that the dedicated fleets are the best alternative and are used in the most efficient way.
Benchmarking
Ability to benchmark what the best rates for the transportation you need.
Implementation
Establish will help you with implementation of the new transportation system as well as follow-up.
For more information on our transportation consulting services and how Establish can help your company design or optimize your transport system that enables efficient and effective delivery of products to your customers, send us an email or call us.
Why establish?
TOOLS & METHODS
Within transportation management, we are using state of the art tools and methods. Below you will find some of the more important tools.
Route4Me
Logivations
Mercury Gate
Supply Chain Guru
SQL
Establish Logistics Best Practices™
CASE STUDIES
Establish has a long track-record within transportation management. The case studies below are just a few examples of achievements from Establish supply chain consultants together with clients within transportation management.
Transportation Negotiations
A detailed description of a typical transportation negotiation spend reduction project.
Carrier Negotiations
How much can you save and examples of focus areas for carrier negotiations. Step-by-step case.
Freight Rate Benchmarking
Freight rate benchmarks as a tool to lower freight costs.
Five Reasons for High Transportation Cost
Practical example about typical areas to focus on for lower transportation costs.
Lower Transportation Costs With Load Planning
Find out why high transportation rates are not always the root cause of inflated transportation costs.
Supply Chain Strategy - Consumer Electronics
A client case study from a consumer electronics company from where Establish performed a detailed benchmarking with competitors to changed transportation concept and a reconfiguration of the client’s distribution network.
Supply Chain Analysis - Consumer Electronics
Read about how Establish helped a manufacturer of consumer electronics reduce the transportation costs by benchmarking, negotiations and optimization of the distribution network.