Reduce Your Company’s Transportation Costs
Reduce your company’s transportation costs with consulting services from Dan Goodwill & Associates. Our consulting services for shippers revolve around these three key areas:
Transportation Management Consulting
You can trust the team at DG&A to perform a comprehensive audit of your freight transportation program. We identify, quantify and rank a list of cost savings opportunities based on impact, time to complete, payback period and other variables. As part of the audit we will:
- Examine all transportation processes
- Assess transportation planning and order management
- Investigate loading, pallet configurations and cube utilization
- Look at technology used, data quality and KPI management
- Review current line haul and delivery processes
Our research includes face to face interviews with your key transportation and supply chain management personnel; administration of a transportation strategy and technology questionnaire, site visits to plants and distribution centres and a careful review of your company’s shipping data. We can also work closely with you to ensure an effective implementation.
Benefits to our customers include:
- Identification of wasteful and inefficient processes
- Identification of “quick wins”
- Recommendations on Best Practices
- Identification of opportunities to make more effective use of technology
- An outline of opportunities to improve organizational effectiveness and employee morale
- Cost saving and service enhancing strategies
Freight RFP Consulting
Freight transportation services can represent up to ten percent of a manufacturer or retailer’s overall expense. Strategic sourcing is one component of supply chain management that our company has particular expertise in. The steps in our strategic sourcing process are:
- Assessment of your company’s current spend (what is bought where?)
- Determination of the supply market (who offers what?)
- Total cost analysis (how much does it cost to provide those goods or services?)
- Identification of suitable suppliers
- Development of a sourcing strategy (where to buy what considering the demand and supply situation, while minimizing risk and costs)
- Negotiation with suppliers (products, service levels, prices, geographical coverage, etc.)
- Implementation of new supply structure
- Track results and restart assessment (continuous cycle)
DG&A applies strategic sourcing processes to ensure a methodical and disciplined approach to procuring freight transportation services. Our consulting services guide you through the process of:
- Setting objectives
- Data gathering and cleansing
- Carrier selection
- Bid preparation
- Bid analysis
- Rate negotiations
- Contract preparation
- Implementation.
Benefits to our customers:
- Our experienced transportation executives can guide you through the process in a worry-free manner
- We have extensive knowledge of rates and rate negotiation strategies that allow us to expedite the selection process
- You receive “cradle to grave” assistance to ensure a quick and effective implementation
- Our proven track record ensures cost savings and upgraded quality of transportation vendors
Freight Network Optimization
Cost savings come from consolidating small orders into larger ones, creating pool or integration points to create economies of scale and using the most cost effective mix of transportation and distribution facilities.
Our understanding of the industry gives us valuable insight that can greatly help your organization. If you maintain purchasing and transportation as different cost centres, we evaluate opportunities to create round trips and leverage the combined volumes. In cases where freight allowances are provided to certain customers, we evaluate the trade-off between paying the freight costs versus shipping prepaid. We seek out and identify all viable opportunities to improve efficiencies.
Benefits to our customers include:
- Improved route planning
- Utilization of more cost effective modes of transport without a degradation in service
- Identification of the most cost effective freight network strategy
- Data based opportunities to improve customer satisfaction and reduce costs
- Elimination of customer subsidies on freight transportation
