Synopsis
Streamline a customer’s global transportation network, while substantially lowering transportation operating costs.
Customer Overview
- Global science/chemical company with a wide spectrum of innovative products/services.
Challenges
- Improve transportation performance, while substantially lowering transportation operating costs.
- Handling hundreds of thousands of shipments annually, approximately 45% are hazardous.
- Managing a diverse pool of transportation providers
Apl Logistics Solutions
- Create a Transportation Management program for the customer
- Implement Oracle Transportation Management System (OTM) in the U.S., Canada, Mexico & China.
- Implement efficiency improvements and centralized two operation centers, with onsite staff throughout the U.S.
- Ensure proper handling of hazardous materials with all staff certified under the U.S. Department of Transportation’s training every three years
- Reduce weekly trucks at a single site from 40 to 18 (using trailer decking)
- Implement multiple innovative logistics solutions including freight optimization
Benefits
- Significant savings across multiple modes of transportation resulting in >200% ROI
- Achieved greater than 96% compliance
- Single source management of all transportation partners:
- Pricing
- Procurement
- Contracting
- Reporting
- Ongoing training for onsite staff
- More efficient transportation processes resulting in cost savings
- Reduction of trucks (through use of trailer decking) resulted in a more efficient loading process