Chicago to Atlanta Freight Broker
Direct Drive teams with Chicago, IL steel manufacturer to evaluate shipping needs
$40 million manufacturer wants to evaluate and improve inbound & outbound domestic freight services, quality and pricing without hiring a full-time traffic manager. Company ships via LTL, ground parcel, air express, air & ocean import, air & ocean export services.
Direct Drive Logistics Response:
- Analyzed all inbound & outbound shipping from points located in Atlanta GA, Memphis TN, Chicago IL and Denver CO
- Reviewed all service provider agreements for compliance and competitiveness
- Interviewed all current service providers, alternate service providers, suppliers, customers and overseas affiliates
- Completed accounting, import, export and customs compliance audit
- Identified fastest LTL carriers for domestic and Canada shipments
- Started cooperative work with distributors and vendors to create a consolidation system for less frequent but faster shipments at a considerable freight and overhead cost savings
- Identified various international freight forwarders, express carriers and customs broker to best service the clients requirements
- Created routing guides for all lanes of business and type of shipments and supervised their implementation
- Provide ongoing freight & transportation vendor compliance audits for continuous improvements
- Recommended to domestic and overseas distributors to work with preferred list of transportation vendors for mutual service improvements and cost savings potential
- Assist with complete implementation of new transportation vendor programs and fine-tuning existing carrier agreements to meet or even exceed the improved requirements
Results:
Freight cost savings in the first year exceeded $150k or more than 20% of the annual freight expenditures resulting from:
- Negotiation of competitive domestic and international air express package and air freight services pricing, offering a potential savings of 30-55%
- Identification of computer programming errors
- Detection of billing errors
- LTL pricing agreements improved 10-25% by focusing on core vendors that provide the overall best value to the client
Contact Direct Drive Logistics 1-877-633-5045
Freight Broker for Shipping to and from Chicago and Atlanta
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