Supply Chain Ailment:
Fuel Prices are Hurting Your Bottom Line
ORTEC Rx:
Use Innovative Pallet and Load Building to Reduce Transportation Costs Despite Rising Fuel Prices
Keeping freight spend at healthy levels when stressors like fuel prices are at an all time high is an ailment you know all too well. Many of today’s leading companies are re-examining their current business processes and discovering that the best treatment is optimizing their pallet and load building processes. In fact, the companies that are leveraging innovative technologies to more efficiently handle these processes are realizing big business impacts like average transportation cost reductions of 5 to 15 percent.
Pallet and load building enables companies to maximize the loading efficiency of goods onto a pallet or onto a truck to optimally fill the space while maintaining compliance with stacking rules, crushability factors and orientation. This is particularly beneficial for companies shipping a variety of product types that fall into different weight categories. In addition, pallet and load building enables companies to:
• Build loads that utilize 100 percent of available space instead of estimating and leaving a safety buffer resulting in underutilized shipping space;
• Ship more product on a single truck to facilitate building an extra stop into the routing process that would not have been possible otherwise; and
• Include orders on trucks that fulfill upcoming promotions to alleviate less than truckload shipments in the future.
The end result is increased asset utilization, a reduced number of trucks required to move more product, reduced mileage and overall fuel cost savings.
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