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What Is It?
Chainalytics' Transportation Procurement services provide you with a collaborative and holistic approach to Transportation Procurement that secures the optimal transportation services needed for your network, while enabling your carriers to operate more efficiently.
Chainalytics' Transportation Procurement services combine our expertise in both transportation and sourcing strategies with the effective use of advanced technologies to determine the "business optimal" assignment of carriers to a shipper's logistics network. Spanning all domestic and international modes - truckload, less-than-truckload (LTL), intermodal, heavy-weight air, ocean, and small-package, the Chainalytics Transportation Procurement methodology captures, models, and considers all relevant factors in the decision-making process, including:
- Line haul rates
- Accessorials
- Seasonality
- Service levels
- Capacity commitments
What Do We Do?
At Chainalytics, our transportation procurement service is more than rate negotiation. We have leveraged our market-leading domain expertise and real-world experience to form a unique analytical process to help you capture and model your service requirements. We help you to find the best set of carriers to serve your network by not just factoring total cost, but also considering critical performance factors and capacity commitments.
Working closely with your team, we collect and evaluate data, build a best-fit procurement model, make recommendations, oversee the bidding process, and analyse "what-if" scenarios.
At Chainalytics, our analysis makes critical business decisions obvious. Within our Transportation Procurement service, we will:
- Conduct focused analysis of your existing shipping history and forecasted needs
- Interview critical decision makers to understand values and preferences
- Work with invited carriers to help them understand your needs and formulate appropriate responses
- Assist you in analysing carriers' responses and performing various "what-if' analyses
- Select the optimal business assignment of carriers to your network
- Assist your team in implementing the new rates and routing guide into daily operations
Will Transportation Procurement benefit your operations? We can help you more effectively answer these questions:
- How many carriers should I use to optimise my freight network?
- Which carriers are the most cost and service effective fit with my needs?
- What is the minimum/maximum amount of spend I should commit to an individual carrier? On an individual lane?
- What is the optimal mix of incumbent and new carriers to use within my network?
- How can I ensure that my new carrier base will provide sufficient capacity during the surge periods?
- How can I factor both rates and non-financial considerations in my carrier selection process?
- How can I determine which, if any, dedicated carriers to use within my network?
Is It Right For You?
You are an ideal candidate for a Transportation Procurement engagement if your company has a large or complex transportation network and is looking to either lower your overall costs or improve your transportation operations. You will see substantial benefits from this service if you are:
- Looking to better leverage your transportation spend due to rapidly increasing transportation costs
- Need to standardize and leverage contracts across a recent or planned merger/acquisition
- Looking to convert your pre-paid freight to collect
- Looking for a more efficient approach to leverage your separate inbound, and outbound spend, and any private or dedicated fleets
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