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Gartner Agrees

Gartner Agrees
 

When discussing generating transportation savings in the current environment, Gartner analyst Farrah Salim agreed with what we have been saying:  “All trucks and containers [should] hold as much capacity as possible.  If achieving a full load is impossible, consider collaborative distribution.”  She also recommended matching inbound and outbound movements.  But doing these things is not that easy…as commonly used tools don’t support:
  • Load optimization – that is why we built AutoO2 to maximize payload
  • Coordinating inbound and outbound loads – most systems don’t understand the need to sequence operations, so unloads happen before the empty trailer is needed.  We have a tool for that too… AutoScheduler
  • Determining who pays what amount of the transportation costs when collaborating on distribution.  This one is tricky – some 3PLs take this as a major margin contributor.  Shippers need a calculation based on the binding constraint (cube, weight, or pallets), which can change from load to load.

 Guess what, we can help there too!