Lower my transport costs

Potential transport cost optimisations are abundant. Most of these levers are linked to organising logistic flows, indirect purchases and internal process. Know that cost killing processes can be counterproductive. Work must be done in line with the business challenges while identifying potential side effects.

Transport is one of the main items of indirect purchases, however, it cannot be restrained to pricing issues. Match your future transport related tenders to a clearer expression of your actual needs and goals. These processes should be reinforced with a sustainable relationship with the suppliers and an expert knowledge of market prices. In doing so, you’ll obtain much better results.

Transport tenders are a long and complicated process which has to be renewed regularly in order to stay aligned with the market and keep the costs under control. It also burdens your teams for several months and requires powerful tools. If the purchases department doesn’t have the resources to support it, outsourcing the process could be an efficient solution.

Detecting and solving the slides hidden in the huge amount of transport data is a laborious task for the teams. Yet, the financial concern linked to transport invoicing mistakes, unjustified customer penalties, use of unreferenced carriers, are huge. Refrain from being overwhelmed by it all and seek help from AI to identify and explain anomalies.

Evolution of order typology, constraints, customer mix or transported volumes inevitably lead to your transport plans being obsolete. What are the consequences of that? An insidious transport related costs increase and a slow service quality deterioration. You’ll have to reassign your carriers or rethink your flow scheme in order to come back to the required optimum.

Pooling allows human resources, material (vehicles, logistic sites..) and non-material (data, software) assets to be shared amongst shippers. It’s an extraordinary efficiency source for the business. Maximise the use of resources in order to satisfy your customers while lowering your transport costs and your carbon footprint.

The flows submitted to customs duties and taxes have numerous financial and documentary constraints. They need optimized processes. In an open European market, the knowledge of offered opportunities from each European country can radically change your import and export flow outline while allowing you to gain financial profit.

The flows submitted to customs duties and taxes have numerous financial and documentary constraints. They need optimized processes. In an open European market, the knowledge of offered opportunities from each European country can radically change your import and export flow outline while allowing you to gain financial profit.

In order to have at your disposal an efficient supply chain you have to know transport markets. However, the task is a bit complex. Indeed, their structure is different from one country to another: ruling, labor cost, location of the production and consumption centers… You have to analyze them step by step in order to better anticipate price variation and capacity availability.