Managed Transportation

Our established processes and systems enable the transparent, efficient movement of goods from a manufacturer or distributor to a warehouse, fulfillment center, distribution center or retailer, depending on the situation.

Our services include shipping goods directly from a manufacturing plant to our customer’s distribution center, eliminating the shipping and handling from plant to regional distribution center and on.

Particularly for our food and beverage customers, we have the capability to deliver goods from manufacturer or supplier directly to a retailer, bypassing a warehouse or distribution center.

Our freight brokerage services lower freight costs and improve service through a wider trucking network. With our customs brokerage capability, we offer services including customs brokerage, customs compliance, goods classification consulting, valuation consulting, tariff engineering and drawback.

We help with dedicated contract carrier needs by assessing existing operations and identifying opportunities for improvement. Our fleet strategy is to provide regional coverage for a dedicated region for improved service in multiple categories – dry, refer, DSD, drayage.

We have crossdock capability to fulfill at the pallet, case or each level. We understand the critical nature of having a multi-site network and being near end users. Our 3PL network is designed to be able to reach virtually any zip code in the US within 1.5-2 days

With our collaborative approach, transportation management can be coordinated to achieve optimal cost and service performance. Our processes and technologies enable close and effective relationships among customers, carriers and suppliers.

Our services include combining more than one mode of transportation to move an individual shipment. With our transportation technologies, visibility across all modes and solutions is a key focus.

We provide contract logistics services across bordering countries: warehousing, truckload, less-than-truckload (LTL) and intermodal transportation. We design optimal transportation models with close attention to the latest customs and traffic regulations as well as local road and traffic conditions.

We provide a full range of services to coordinate the international movement of shipments. Our multilingual team, expertise and extensive global network ensure shipments are compliant with regulations and optimized for maximum efficiency.

Our services include transporting goods over a short distance, such as from a ship to a warehouse, sometimes as part of a longer, overall move. Establishing dray capacity from the Long Beach port to one of our California locations for product from a South Korean manufacturer is a recent example.

We have the right systems and processes in place to improve freight optimization – modes, cost, traceability, delivery confirmation and automated notifications, etc. With our continuous improvement focus, we carefully monitor and adjust to ensure continued success.

We monitor and manage carrier performance through carrier scorecards, contract and rate management, and claims management. We carefully measure carrier performance through a series of performance KPIs.

We have established practices for research, analysis, negotiation, contracting in our procurement process to source and secure the best performing carriers to move shipments in a cost-effective and timely manner.

We leverage data visualization, shipment visibility and information insights to optimize transportation decisions and performance.

Our analyses of shipments, rates and constraints resulting in realistic load plans ensures that our customers achieve savings and gain efficiencies across their networks. Our modeling expertise helps them explore scenarios, predict costs, identify opportunities for consolidation and optimize routes.

Our multi-customer consolidation centers are strategically located in key geographies, positioned for efficient service to regional and national retailers, minimizing transit time and decreasing order lead-time. We combine orders for retail suppliers and deliver full truckloads on a regular basis.

One of our core competencies is managing to retailers’ unique requirements, resulting in fewer stock-outs, consistent deliveries, hassle-free appointments, shorter transit times, advanced technology, dedicated customer service, freight savings and 24/7 online access to orders and inventory.

We have extensive experience providing transportation services across a broad array of industries. Our insights into retail and consignee requirements enable high-performance service and risk mitigation. We provide shipment tracking, weather monitoring and alerts.

The team at our Transportation Management Center provides complete financial services. Our customers achieve savings by leveraging our total transportation spend with carriers, our centralized transportation management resources and our consolidation opportunities.