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The best way to defend your transportation budget and avenge those villains with poor performance is to join forces with a quality carrier to help solidify your transportation and logistics strategy.

Whatever your role in the supply chain, lasting, symbiotic business relationships among carriers, shippers, and 3PLs will lead to sustained transportation savings that eliminate inefficiencies and saves valuable resource time.

How are you managing rising transportation costs and uncertain capacity constraints?

In a 2017 American Shipper Report on global sourcing, 58% of shippers indicated that their biggest concern today is rising transportation costs.

Researchers from MIT’s MLOG Program, C.H. Robinson, and TMC teamed up to analyze over one million truckload transactions, and their findings revealed that by increasing lead time, companies can dramatically impact their transportation costs.

Ford Motor Company, one of the world’s largest automotive manufacturers, has worked with Penske on several Six Sigma initiatives.

The annual freight rate contract negotiation process is underway, and it is imperative that shippers fully evaluate their carrier options, utilizing knowledge of historical changes and past performance in their trade lanes.

Transportation sourcing and management is critical to your company’s success.

Shippers need to be sharing these types of articles with their Senior Executives, so they have a better understanding of the transportation marketplace and how it could impact the bottom line for their companies.