Data2Logistics Business Intelligence Offerings to Reduce Growing Supply Chain Transportation Costs

Feb. 20, 2013 - PRLog -- Fort Myers, Florida and Rotterdam, Netherlands – Global supply chain information and technology company Data2Logistics announces their Professional Services Group’s offerings to reduce supply chain costs associated with product transportation through discovery; at the core a business intelligence portal providing for data mining of a shipper’s current information addressing their logistical needs in relation to marketplace options, enabling them to ascertain options and make actionable, time and cost-effective decisions, domestically and globally. Implementation of discovery’s results includes support functions relating to pooled purchasing, RFP management, carrier negotiations, transportation management system software utilization, inbound routing and network analysis, along with informed freight bill auditing and payment services. “We’ve found these areas to be of widespread need throughout the supply chain industry, reducing excess cost associated with organization’s logistics,” comments Leif Holm-Andersen, Data2Logistics Professional Services Group’s Executive Director. “Managing with data and facts will produce the best results and drive excessive cost out of supply chain transportation expense, while strengthening carrier relations.”

Data2Logistics Professional Services Group’s objective is to utilize the company’s business intelligence technology, subject matter expertise and knowledge of the marketplace to enhance transportation operations, improve service and reduce related expenses. They identify opportunities to remove excess cost out of end-to-end supply chains to drive company’s profitability, a primary and prominent position of action of supply chain professionals faced with costs of increasing economic, geopolitical and environmental volatility.

Data2Logistics’ services enhance organization’s logistics, supply chain, operations, finance and accounting processes, providing information needed to control costs for all modes of transportation both domestically and internationally via LTL, TL, parcel, overnight express, ocean, air and rail carriers. Having full service operations in Fort Myers, Florida, Salt Lake City, Utah and Rotterdam, Netherlands enables Data2Logistics to support companies shipping domestically and internationally, with staff attuned to local cultures and unique business environments.

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. 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 of freight bills from thousands of carriers annually, the company provides a single-source solution resulting in savings on average of 5%-15% of product shipping expenditures per year.

For Data2Logistics Professional Services Group information, contact Leif Holm-Andersen, +1 516 807 0256 or leif.holm-andersen@Data2Logistics.com.

About Data2Logistics, LLC
Fort Myers, Florida-based Data2Logistics is a leader in supply chain logistics knowledge management, cost control and freight payment. The company’s Ship Smarter and Save actionable information, assists hundreds of clients in the Global 1000, Fortune 1000 and SMB categories, processing hundreds of millions of freight bills annually, valued in excess of US$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 control of 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