Taking a holistic approach to supply chain evaluation, Zipline Logistics and Evans Food Group altered transportation practices to significantly reduce spend and increase efficiency for the entire company.
Altered production locations and order consolidation resulted in two-thirds fewer LTL shipments, transitioning the majority of orders to full truckload.
These solutions not only cut transportation costs but reduced product handling, cut down on employee processing time, improved overall performance, and increased customer happiness.
Savory Foods is now able to meet deadlines while also cutting costs and achieving larger margins.
Savings on Transportation
Adopting Zipline Logistics’ MTS provided Evans Food Group with an end-to-end order management solution. Optimization tools and business intelligence reports helped the two organizations identify ongoing opportunities for new efficiencies and increased profitability.
Working with Zipline Logistics, Hoist was able to leverage the 3PL’s connections and expertise, ultimately growing to serve a nation-wide network of more than 5,000 retail buyers.
Hoist pushed through the noise of other enhanced waters and substitutes for sugary beverages with the help of strategic marketing and smart transportation decisions.
Benefits of 3PL Partnership
The beverage company has gained impressive market share across North America since joining forces with Zipline Logistics and is now able to scale and meet tight timelines and avoid unnecessary transportation costs.
Zipline’s customer was originally spending upwards of $5.5 million for U.S. domestic transportation each year for roughly 7,000 shipments. Without full visibility into its U.S. network, overseas offices were shipping ingredients to out of network distribution centers. This led to servicing of orders more than 1,000 miles away when much closer facilities existed.
Zipline leveraged its technology suite to conduct a deep network analysis of their customer’s data. With its proprietary analytics platform KANOPI and available mapping software, Zipline started by identifying which ingredient loads went beyond recommended mileage limits or were more-costly than target metrics.
Specific Details
Zipline’s customer was able to streamline their U.S. domestic transportation and improve communication with overseas offices.