LeanLogistics' Carrier Procurement Services Available as Stand-Alone Offering
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Clients Achieve Better Freight Rates & Improved Service Levels
HOLLAND, Mich., Feb. 11 -- LeanLogistics, the leading provider of Web-native Transportation Management Systems (TMS), announces Carrier Procurement Services are now available as a stand-alone offering from the company. According to an AberdeenGroup Research report, companies can save an average of 8.8% on their overall freight budget with a more sophisticated procurement or payment/audit system. LeanLogistics' Carrier Procurement Services helps clients achieve better freight rates and improved service levels by benchmarking these against best-in-class averages from the LeanLogistics On-Demand TMS® network of over 20,000 users, 4,000 carriers, and 2,000 suppliers processing in excess of 70,000 shipments per week and $4 billion in annual transportation expense.
"Transportation costs continue to increase every day, so shippers need help in determining the best combination of carriers to support their customers," said Dan Dershem, CEO and president of LeanLogistics. "We leverage a critical mass of data from our vast transportation network, along with our best practices knowledge and resources, to deliver sustained improvements in service levels and transportation spend to clients."
As part of the Carrier Procurement Services offering, LeanLogistics will assist companies by:
o Supporting the carrier Request for Proposal (RFP) process
o Identifying complimentary regional and national carriers from the
LeanLogistics On-Demand TMS® network to participate in carrier bid
events
o Developing carrier profiles to include: number of trucks, trailers,
terminal locations, and operating regions
o Documenting RFP objectives and business requirements
o Developing customized web pages with the company's graphics for
carriers to download RFP documents and upload rates and accessorial
tables
o Standardizing and documenting accessorial requirements and charges
o Electronically issuing rate, accessorial, and contract templates
o Providing data cleansing and analysis of bid results
o Supporting multiple rounds of bids
o Reviewing bid results
o Identifying total savings generated from bid event
o Providing on-going quarterly review of carrier routing guide compliance
and savings generated, as well as targeted bid events on "bleeder"
lanes
"For companies that plan to conduct a carrier bid event this year, LeanLogistics can significantly streamline business processes and reduce expenditures," said Jeff Potts, vice president of Business Development at LeanLogistics. "LeanLogistics' On-Demand TMS® provides connectivity to all trading partners, systems functionality to manage the Supply Chain, and services that allow clients to continuously maximize their return-on- investment."
To better understand how to obtain the lowest freight rates and the best transportation services, download the LeanLogistics Carrier Procurement Services data sheet at offers.leanlogistics.com/procurement/.
About LeanLogistics
LeanLogistics provides clients with Transportation Solutions and Expertise to manage their Supply Chain, connect to all their trading partners, and continuously maximize their return-on-investment.
LeanLogistics Managed Transportation Services (LLMTS) is an innovative and customized combination of software with best practices and business process outsourcing that ensures clients realize maximum value.
On-Demand TMS® is an On Demand Transportation Network that provides complete daily planning, execution, settlement, and procurement functions that improve business processes, increase operating efficiency, and reduce transportation cost. It also provides unique functions that can only be delivered through a network: supplier inbound management, appointment scheduling, benchmarking and network-wide reporting, a private transportation marketplace to obtain capacity and lower costs, and total Supply Chain visibility.
Implementation speed is unprecedented and clients realize extremely rapid value, with typical payback in less than one year -- Return on Cash(TM). Clients include Barilla America, Meijer, Ace Hardware, PepsiAmericas, Procter & Gamble, Rich Products, and Unilever.
The privately held company, headquartered in Holland, MI, was founded by veterans of transportation and Third-Party Logistics (3PL). For additional information, visit www.leanlogistics.com/ or call 616.738.6400.
Source: LeanLogistics
CONTACT:
Becky Boyd of MediaFirst PR - Atlanta
for LeanLogistics
+1-770-642-2080
becky@mediafirst.net
Web site: www.leanlogistics.com/
http://offers.leanlogistics.com/procurement
