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Ten Best Practices for Motor Freight Optimization - Free White Paper
Rate shopping and carrier negotiations can only take you so far. To reduce costs and maximize asset utilization, shippers must employ the Ten Best Practices for Motor Freight Optimization.
LMÑ free, 32-page white paper explains how shippers can combat rate increases and shrinking capacity levels by employing proven motor freight optimization tactics. These tactics address every freight segment, including parcel, small mark less-than-truckload (LTL), large mark truckload (TL) and full capacity truckload freight. Detailed diagrams further simplify the process and give shippers the tools they need to optimize any motor freight operation.
Exploring the SaaS Model - Free White Paper
Today's lean-and-mean logistics market is embracing Web-based transportation management systems (TMS) that do not entail hefty upfront costs or cumbersome implementations. However, TMS shoppers must remain vigilant as vendors crowd the marketplace with vaporware and products that promise to be everything to everyone. Thoroughly addressing security, performance, functionality and support issues, among others, can help transportation professionals make smart decisions that translate into measurable performance improvements and bottom line benefits. This comprehensive paper examines the on-demand/ASP/SaaS TMS model and provides a checklist for companies that are shopping for a Web-based TMS package.
Freight Collaboration
By leveraging the collective freight activities of LMC' high-volume clients, individual shippers can significantly reduce transportation costs. LMC offers two types of multi-shipper collaboration programs:
Collaborative Continuous Movements:
Transforming separate TL shipments, from multiple shippers, into efficient, multi-stop trips to reduce one-way movements, empty miles and high-cost minimum charges.
Co-loading:
Combining large-mark LTL freight shipments, from multiple shippers, into full truckloads to increase asset utilization and reduce freight costs.
To facilitate collaboration, LMC runs participating shippers' data through TOTAL Optimization and TOTA LCM to identify co-loading and/or continuous move opportunities. TOTAL is programmed with freight compatibility and service parameters to ensure loads are matched safely and according to each company's specifications. Once loads are matched and routes are configured, LMC generates a ship plan for review. Once the plan has been approved, LMC transportation planners tender the shipments and work with carriers to ensure proper execution.