Providing service that customers demand at the lowest possible price is an important goal.
You work for a 3PL (non-asset based) company. Identify lanes of traffic by trying to find opportunities for freight consolidation. Once you identified a lane of traffic, you would select the mode and carrier and provide them full details of the shipment. Freight consolidation is the practice of combining shipments for improved transportation utilization. You have been provided with a list of inbound shipments from a major customer from various origin cities to their central warehouse in Columbus, Ohio. You also have a list of outbound shipments from the same customer’s warehouse in Columbus, Ohio to several different destination cities.
Note: LTL refers to a shipment that weighs less than 8,000 pounds (in this example) and is expected to ship via less than truckload (LTL) carriers. Shipments of 8,000 pounds or more appear to be shipped via truckload (TL) carriers. On the outbound side, some loads are designated as 1-D, meaning next day service and 2-D, meaning second day delivery. You may want to check a map of the United States so you can explore possible ways to combine shipments for consolidated volumes. For this exercise assume that a truck as capacity for up to 40,000 pounds of freight, so you can identify three prospects for consolidation. Providing service that customers demand at the lowest possible price is an important goal.
You work for a 3PL (non-asset based) company. Identify lanes of traffic by trying to find opportunities for freight consolidation. Once you identified a lane of traffic, you would select the mode and carrier and provide them full details of the shipment. Freight consolidation is the practice of combining shipments for improved transportation utilization. You have been provided with a list of inbound shipments from a major customer from various origin cities to their central warehouse in Columbus, Ohio. You also have a list of outbound...