Reduce costs, keep costs under control, invest intelligently

Reduce transport costs - keep freight costs under control - invest intelligently: this is the nature of the modern triathlon, in which logistics managers make their contribution to maintaining profitability during these troubled times

03/19/2009 In times such as these, companies focus on their costs, in particular on areas where costs can be avoided altogether. Preferably, where less can be spent whilst still achieving the same outcome. The purpose of all intelligent measures is to increase efficiency. We can point to one large company where the logistics managers introduced logistics-server® to make their Europe-wide transport network transparent and then went on to put it out for single tender. The mere fact that the total volume of transport had now become transparent for the first time provided a basis for negotiation which enabled the logistics managers to place bulk transport orders and thereby secure freight rates that were 20 percent lower than before.

Compliance regulations represent a major aspect of business sustainability. This is where logistics-server® comes into its own. By offering the possibility of checking all freight costs in an objective and professional as well as tariff-focused way, this IT solution offers a powerful instrument for flagging up agreed transport charges and double billing. Furthermore, the extensive automation of planning, optimisation, testing and booking of transport can lead to reductions in related process costs by up to 30 percent.

The crowning element in any efficient transport setup is an intelligent cost structure in the use of tools. In other words, if less transport takes place, correspondingly less use is made of the IT and consequently less is paid for it. On the other hand, if the transport side of the business is running at full capacity, it is possible to justify higher costs for the IT solution. inet-logistics is one of the pioneers in the field of ‘Software as a Service’, offering its customers an appropriate level of experience in the reliable operation of SCE applications that are crucial to business success.