LOGISTICS CONSULTING
(Helping companies ship goods)
REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS
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Service specification preparation
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Service provider qualification
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Bid
cost analysis
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Service provider recommendation
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Contract development
DOMESTIC & INTERNATIONAL SOURCING & MANAGEMENT
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Truckload
(TL)
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3rd Partly Logistics Providers
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Less-Than-Truckload (LTL)
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Intermodal transportation
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Rail, air & ocean freight
COURIER & SMALL
PACKAGE
OUTBOUND & INBOUND TRANSPORTATION
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Process
assessment
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Cost reduction through analysis, routing development, leveraging synergies to reduces costs and streamline
operations
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Shipment review ensuring utilization of the correct transportation mode of service
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Operations budget cost modelling
tied to Key Performance Indicators using baseline data
TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
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Fuctional specification development to ensure
that company requirements are being met
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Software, hardware versus Software as a Service (SaaS) comparison and recommendation
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Vendor
sourcing
FREIGHT AUDITING & CLAIMS MANAGEMENT
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Freight cost savings through audit of carrier invoice errors and overcharges
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Routing
recommendation to reduce spending recommendation
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Recovery of freight claims invoices
Experienced at helping companies optimize the logistics function
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XCD LOGISTICS SOLUTIONS
FLEET MANAGEMENT
(Helping shippers, carriers & 3rd Party Logistics)
- Optimize the use of capital assets and human resources in the
logistics process
- Capital budget process development, return on investment modeling
- Fleet operating budget planning
- Productivity and
process improvement using analytical tools improving cost per mile productivity
- Fleet management technology analysis and functional
specification development
- Fuel spending reduction through: consumption analysis, fuel utilization optimization, fuel invoice
audits
- Lease versus buy equipment acquisition analysis
- Tractor and trailer specs, commodity specific, right type, right size,
right job
- Equipment selection and vendor sourcing
- Driver operations manuals, customer specific standard operating procedures
- Regulatory
compliance audits
LOGISTICS CONSULTING SERVICES