Transportation Management

Menlo Worldwide Logistics provides a variety of transportation management options for our clients. Whether we place our staff at your site or manage your business from our Network Logistics Center, we have the skills necessary to manage and enhance your business activity.

Using an array of multimodal carrier relationships, we apply the right modes and carriers to meet your service and cost requirements. We evaluate all the carrier options, find the right price/performance combination, and execute the shipment to meet your specific objectives. By leveraging the buying power of our expansive transportation activity, Menlo Worldwide Logistics is able to obtain more capacity for its customers than they could individually. This benefit is especially important for companies that have critical needs during peak seasons and end-of-quarter surges.

One technique for reducing the landed transportation costs is to optimize your network. Changing the number and location of distribution centers and cross-docks can reduce transportation spending. Menlo Worldwide Logistics can revisit your inventory strategy, concurrent with a network optimization analysis, to identify ways to reduce system inventory.

If your network has not undergone evaluation in the past two to three years, a recalculation by Menlo Worldwide Logistics may save you money. Changes in fuel costs, customers, products and supply sources can negatively affect network operations, costing time and efficiency. At Menlo Worldwide Logistics, we are experts at network design. Contact us and our logistics engineers will work with you to optimize your network. Some of the transportation services we offer include:

Order Aggregation

Our systems and processes convert orders into optimized shipments. This order aggregation links the customer order perspective to the shipment or logistics execution perspective, reducing landed costs while satisfying delivery dates.

Carrier Management and Route Selection

Menlo Worldwide Logistics has an experienced, professional staff to manage carrier relationships, rates and service performance. Rates used in shipment optimization are continually updated to reflect current market conditions. The processes we employ enhance freight audit and payment, load tender and shipment tracking. All options are considered when the routing is designed and a shipment method is selected. Because the transportation and warehouse systems are integrated, the order loading required on a trailer with multiple stops can be communicated directly from and to the warehouse floor, ensuring the truck is on time along the route.

Multimodal Rating and Execution

Menlo Worldwide Logistics manages all transportation modes, including parcel, less-than-truckload (LTL), truckload, air, ocean and rail/intermodal. Using a sophisticated rating system, our logistics team recommends the best mode for a particular shipment and then executes that shipment flawlessly. Our transportation systems are integrated with the accounting systems of our clients so that transportation seamlessly merges into the overall financial reporting process.

Routing Compliance

Menlo Worldwide Logistics uses approved carrier lists based upon ongoing rate negotiations, performance ratings and other business criteria. By consolidating the carrier decisions at a centralized transportation center, compliance with carrier selection business rules is much higher, reducing deviations and transportation costs.

Visibility

Menlo Worldwide Logistics dynamically tracks customer shipments across multiple origins for multiple carriers. We can relate shipments to orders and order items so both transportation and inventory information is available to customer inventory managers. Each shipment, whether moving via our domestic system or our international network, is electronically monitored to detect unplanned interruptions in movement. Shipping information is available via a single Web view, regardless of which carrier provides the status of the shipment’s location. We ensure timely, accurate and complete information visibility through aggressive management of data from carriers and within our own network.

Merge-in-Transit

Menlo Worldwide Logistics seamlessly ships items from different origins, consolidating them at a location near the point of delivery to make a complete order, then delivering all to the final destination as a unit.

Continuous Moves

Menlo Worldwide Logistics actively seeks out opportunities to combine the freight flows of its clients in an effort to improve carrier utilization and lower rates. For example, our transportation planners will combine the routings of computers headed from City A to City B with a complementary shipment of home appliances built in City B and destined for City C to create a “continuous move.” Continuous moves reduce unproductive carrier time and travel between loads, reducing cost per shipment. This results in lower rates for our customers. Because Menlo Worldwide Logistics manages such a large transportation network and applies sophisticated tools that track complementary routing needs, we are able to identify opportunities for cost management that would not be distinguishable otherwise.