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Transportation and Logistics

Transportation and Logistics Management

The transportation and distribution world is a rapidly changing landscape marked by unprecedented complexity. Increased global trade makes logistics supply chains even longer and more dynamic, and customer expectations continue to rise. Whether shipping from Chicago or Shanghai, companies must be able to collaborate more effectively with their key trading partners—carriers, suppliers, or customers—to drive maximum efficiencies while delivering world-class service. Consequently, organizations must consider these business processes more strategically and look for more refined and adaptable closed-loop solutions.

i2 solutions for transportation and distribution have been designed and proven to empower transportation as a strategic enterprise by enabling industry best practices in the areas of design, procurement, planning, execution, and visibility. These solutions consistently create quantifiable value by synchronizing those critical transportation and distribution processes across multiple modes, enterprises, and borders, while driving optimal operating efficiencies and greater service performance.

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Logistics Innovation: Web Seminar

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Pepsico: Driving Value Through Transportation Management at PepsiCo

Cooper Tires: The road to supply chain optimization

Best Buy: Improving Transportation Management

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World-Class Multi-Modal Transportation Software as a Service

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Best Practices: Bringing Green Logistics to Your Supply Chain

Network Optimization: Featuring a case study from DHL shipping.

Leading Edge Logistics Series Part 2: From Logistics Strategy to Execution

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Driving Transportation Efficiency at Cooper Tire

Optimizing Transportation Processes at DHL

Green and Lean: Kimberly-Clark Drives Sustainability through the Heart of its Supply Chain

MasterBrand Cabinets Gains Transportation Visibility and Efficiency with i2 FreightMatrix

PepsiCo: Driving Value Through Transportation Management

Improving Transportation Management at Best Buy

Transportation Management at LG Electronics: Act Locally. Manage Globally.

Reducing Freight Costs by Millions at CEMEX

Saving $12.5 Million at Covidien

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Key challenges faced by the transportation and distribution industry can include:

  • Rising profitability pressures including increased fuel costs, driving hours-of-service regulations, and new regulatory mandates driven by security, which can have a large impact on profit margin
  • Severe capacity issues including a shortage of drivers and equipment and an imbalance in freight flows driven by global sourcing
  • Greater need for inbound and outbound freight visibility and control on a global basis
  • Increasing customer expectations for transportation performance including expectations of 99.9% on-time delivery performance, reduced damage-in-transit, flexibility and ability to adapt to order changes, and order and shipment visibility

Traditionally, transportation and distribution companies focused on:

  • Short-term cost reduction
  • Adversarial shipper-carrier relations
  • Distributed planning and execution
  • Manual processes with minimal automation
  • Operational silos across inbound and outbound transportation management
  • Reactive approach to managing exceptions and service disruptions
  • Cost-centered business model

Today, transportation and distribution companies must focus on:

  • Emerging transportation practices
  • Sustainable cost-service optimization
  • Collaborative shipper-carrier partnerships
  • Centralized planning, localized execution
  • Integrated inbound, outbound, and inter-facility transportation management
  • Proactive and automated monitoring and resolution of exceptions and service disruptions
  • Profit-center business model that can be leveraged as a strategic weapon

Featured Solutions

i2 Strategic Network Design and Analysis can provide a set of tools to support intelligent decision making at every stage of the supply chain, from raw materials procurement to finished goods distribution.

Supply Chain Visibility pulls timely transaction data from multiple systems, and organizes it into a coherent global view of order, inventory, and shipment activity. This view includes exceptions and alerts, so that potential problems can be identified and solved before they affect performance.

i2 Transportation Bid Collaboration provides a suite of tools for the periodic negotiation of transportation rates. It combines an optimization engine, a web-based workflow, and a bidding tool into a single solution for negotiating and awarding transportation contracts.

Transportation Modeling and Analysis is part of an end-to-end solution for the planning, execution, and management of the entire transportation life cycle. This solution is designed to enable an organization to better utilize and manage an entire transportation network, as well as reduce costs while improving transport performance.

i2 Transportation Planning and Management can offer the tools needed to optimize and execute shipments, proactively monitor exceptions, and manage match pay and auto pay settlements, as well as provide analytical performance management for transport activities.

Transportation and Logistics Webinars
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NESTLE - Best Practices in Transportation Procurement: Bringing the Paper Savings to Reality
New Best Practices Web Seminar: Green Supply Chain Design at WWL
New Best Practices Web Seminar: i2 Logistics Innovation
Kimberly-Clark Innovates Logistics Operations with i2 Platform
Web Seminar: Bringing Green Logistics to Your Supply Chain
Free Best Practices Web Seminar: Ryder Leverages Transportation Software as a Service
Free Web Seminar: Leading Edge Logistics Series
Supply Chain Digest: In Search of a Global Logistics Strategy
Free Web Seminar: Network Optimization - A multi-country, multi-customer, multi-solution case study
Free Web Seminar: The New Generation of Global Transportation Management
Driving Improvement in Tactical Forecasting and Network Planning at Schneider National
Best Practices in Transportation Management with Software as a Service
Free Web Seminar: The New Generation of Global Transportation Management
Web Seminar: Forecasting and Optimization of Logistics Operations at GE

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