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Spend Management Experts engages in three primary categories of service to help clients manage transportation spend, drive savings and enhance profitability.
CONTRACT OPTIMIZATION:
SME leverages extensive understanding of carrier profitability, helping clients make sense of 250+ variable surcharges and shedding light on how pricing is derived. Using advanced modeling and up-to-date market data, SME creates the foundation needed to predict spending and eliminate financial surprises.
Carrier Sourcing:
Engaging the right balance of carriers and ensuring favorable terms
Strategic Planning:
Enabling smart spend solutions based on clients’ unique
Process Improvement:
Tuning logistics to lower costs while maintaining or increasing customer-service levels
BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE:
Clients benefit from a complete view of their spend environments to maximize efficiency and minimize waste. SME provides centralized, consolidated visibility into the supply chain via an industry-leading client portal. This degree of transparency enables more effective business decision-making and significant soft-dollar savings.
Network Analysis:
Modeling optimum brick & mortar/DC locations as well as feasibility of free shipping and returns
Internal Analytics:
Evaluating viability of internal vs. pool vs. outsourced distribution and staffing
Mode Optimization:
Determining ideal mix of small parcel, LTL, truckload, ocean and air freight, and hybrid options.
AUDIT TECHNOLOGY:
SME’s ability to optimize spend hinges on accurate implementation of carrier agreements and precise strategy execution. Advanced automation and reporting via a highly accessible web-based solution, plus accountable attention to supply-chain tactics, are key to achieving SME’s unparalleled levels of sustainable savings.
Tracking:
Monitoring all inbound and outbound shipments worldwide at the SKU level
Audit & Recovery:
Generating hard-dollar savings by identifying and claiming 100% of entitled refunds
Payment:
Automating invoice processing, payment and reconciliation, saving time and money