Data2Logistics to Present at the 10th Annual Supply Chain and Logistics Summit North America 2012

Nov. 26, 2012 - PRLog -- Fort Myers, Florida and Rotterdam, Netherlands – Global supply chain information and technology company Data2Logistics announces participation at the 10th Annual Supply Chain and Logistics Summit North America 2012, December 3-5 at the Hyatt Regency Dallas. Data2Logistics’ will present the Interactive Workshop – Transportation and Logistics: Optimizing Freight Rates, covering transportation strategy planning supporting shipper’s corporate goals, including plan benchmarking, freight rate negotiations, and identifying, documenting, and recovering carrier overcharges through invoice auditing. Data2Logistics’ staff will also be greeting guests at the convention’s events and in their expo hall location.

The 10th Annual Supply Chain and Logistics Summit North America 2012 will provide attendees the opportunity to learn from examples of industry leaders addressing universal supply chain challenges, networking and benchmarking among peers from a broad array of industries, discovery of new tools, tactics and technologies to improve performance, enhance resiliency, and reduce cost. The goal is for attendees to take away supply chain management best practices and lessons learned from other organizations, and apply them to their own decision-making process.

Data2Logistics enhances transportation operations, helping meet goals for cost reduction and improved oversight. They provide focused resources to support projects relating to pooled purchasing, RFP management, carrier negotiations, TMS software, inbound routing, and network analysis, along with informed audit and freight payment services. Their global reach provides ability to support all modes of transportation, optimizing logistics operations domestically and globally.

Data2Logistics assists Global 1000, Fortune 1000 and SMB companies to reduce their shipping costs by providing an outsourced opportunity to efficiently process, audit, account code and pay their freight at a significantly lower cost than internal processes. Clients also benefit from the identification of more carrier overcharges than their internal systems can identify. The company provides actionable information to better manage and control transportation cost, and supports clients with their carrier bid preparation, benchmarking, proposal analysis and negotiation. As a single source of information for all modes of transportation on a global basis, Data2Logistics identifies and reports opportunities for savings and the reasons for variances in trends. Savings opportunities can be derived from modal shifts, consolidation of shipments, improved carrier utilization, and adjustment to shipment size, as well as monitoring accessorial costs. Reviewing over $15 billion worth of freight bills from thousands of carriers annually, the company provides a single-source solution results in savings averaging 5%-15% of product shipping expenditures per year.

For Data2Logistics information and demonstration, contact Harold Friedman, +1 609 577 3756 or harold.friedman@data2logistics.com.

About Data2Logistics, LLC
Fort Myers, Florida-based Data2Logistics is a leader in supply chain logistics, cost management and freight payment. The company’s Ship Smarter and Save capabilities assist hundreds of clients in the Global 1000, Fortune 1000 and SMB categories, processing hundreds of millions of freight bills annually, valued in excess of $15 billion, saving clients an average of 5%-15% of their product shipping expenditures per year.

As an eight-time recipient of Inbound Logistics’ Top 100 Logistics IT Service Providers, their data mining capabilities creates actionable information for current and ongoing shipping cost savings. The company is the only service provider to work with clients and carriers to eliminate billing errors from recurring and to continuously improve and optimize their logistics networks and expenditures, domestically and globally. http://www.data2logistics.com/ + http://twitter.com/Data2Logistics