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Most transportation companies view freight payment as a difficult process. However, improved freight payment systems is making the process simpler to perform. There are now also more companies offering services that promise to improve companies' freight payment systems. More businesses are utilizing the services offered by these companies., Freight payment might seem like a necessary evil, but many organizations are converting the tedious task into a necessary commodity. Whether done internally or externally, freight payment. and the headaches [...]

Core carriers providing consolidation and delivery appointments improve LTL services for this Atlanta-based home supply center. Reliable next-day service from its core carriers enables the western division of Atlanta-based Home [...]

GTE Supply embarked on a campaign to reduce its transporation costs by consolidating its freight handling processes. GTE Supply is the logistics arm of the $27 billion firm GTE, the largest US local telephone firm. GTE Supply's transporation costs reached $84 million in 1993, prompting its management to form a task force to address the problem of streamlining. Aiming for daily savings of $40,000, GTE implemented a pilot crossdocking project to reduce cycle time, number of shipments and damage claims. GTE realized savings of $1.1 million in 1994., When the transportation group at GTE Supply got wind that its vendors were jerking the group around, it decided to make some changes. The GTE national logistics center in Westfield, [...]

Many companies in the transportation services industry are turning to third parties for logistical needs. Observers point out that contract logistics providers could control around 10%, or about $474 billion, of the entire logistics market by the year 2000. These observers point out, however, that some contract logistics companies are not able to perform the necessary services such as independent audit and cost accounting. Careful study must be made in order to determine those processes that can be outsourced and those that should be done in-house., Remember President Reagan's phrase, 'Trust but verify'? That's not a bad thought for buyers to keep in mind when outsourcing any significant portion of logistics activities to a third party. [...]

Transportation buyers are becoming more active participants in the supply chain due to changes in strategy. Just-in-time manufacturing has led to a reduction in inventory, which saves costs in storage and damage but has increased the risk of delay. To avoid interruptions in the chain, buyers can use information technology to form integrated partnerships with their carriers so that materials and product can be tracked through the process., Cost-conscious executives are salivating over the prospect of supply chain management. Who can blame them? With its emphasis on streamlining supply operations from suppliers' suppliers to customers' customers, supply chain [...]

Dutch mail and logistics company TNT said recently it would sell most of its loss-making logistics activities in France. TNT has said its French transport activities are suffering from high [...]