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Transport Planning
We lower your transport costs—by choosing the right service providers and optimizing transport segmentation based on the required service and lead times
Starting point
- Many different transport service providers
- Different responsibilities (national organizations)
- Lack of visibility of transport costs and services (no link between services and costs)
- Inadequate quantity structures (actual weight/volume vs. chargeable weight/volume)
- Insufficiently specific documentation in calls for tenders (danger of additional requirements after the fact)
- Modified service requirements (24-hour availability, etc.)
Goals
- Establish visibility of current transport structure and costs
- Lower transport costs
- Maximize payloads
- Make better use of available vehicle capacity
- Improve service (availability/on-time performance)
Solution methodology
Phase 1: Planning
- Analyze current situation, add quantity structure / transport data / current transport structure
- Assess costs based on current rates
- Develop process cost model / benchmark
- Run scenario-based optimization/planning
- Segment transports (regional carrier, milk run / tours, FTL/LTL, package)
- Review use of alternative modes of transport (rail/ship, etc.)
- Plan transport tours
- Use transfer points, consolidation, etc.
- Optimize fleet
- Assess costs of scenarios, compare against actuals
- Prepare business case / recommendation for future transport structure
Phase 2: Prep for call for tenders
- Develop quantity structure / rate tables
- Create product requirements document (specifications, requirements, process times, etc.)
- Draw up long-list of possible transport service providers
Phase 3: Issue call for tenders and award contracts to transport service providers
- Send out documentation for call for tenders
- Review and evaluate the tenders (in multiple rounds if necessary)
- Support negotiations
- Award contract
- Implement transport service provider
Phase 4: Support ramp-up phase
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