Client Success
Overcame challenges to efficiently manage documents and manage carriers
SKUs managed
Vendors
parcel, 25% LTL
During our in-depth discovery, we questioned if ShipLinx TMS was too good to be true. RateLinx delivered everything promised on time—and more than we imagined. They engineered customizations and integrations to perfectly fit our needs now and in the future.
Overview
Kem Krest, a leading North American distributor of automotive fluids and accessories, managed a complex multimodal network serving major OEMs. Inbound shipments used truckload and LTL; outbound relied on LTL, parcel, truckload, and intermodal, with air and ocean for imports. Managing this dynamic network created challenges.
Kem Krest used ShipLinx TMS and Microsoft Dynamics 365 to streamlining operations, boosting customer service, and reducing touchpoints.
Challenges
More than 100,000 SKUs to manage
More than 800 vendors
Lacked visibility across all of their transportation modes
Solution
Benefits School Specialty realized with ShipLinx TMS
- Low cost rate administration and eliminated tariff administration FTE
- Quick and easy to implement multimodal rate changes
- Easy to enforce least cost carrier and routing compliance to find new cost savings opportunities for all modes and changed vendor behavior
- Easily onboarded carriers and new business units quickly
- RateLinx set up all the EDIs with the carriers to have 100% electronic invoicing that put accountability onto carriers to submit invoices into RateLinx
- Hybrid TL pricing model for both contracted and spot lanes saved $1M monthly with clear cost/mile and cost/lbs metrics with a healthy mix of contracted and spot lanes
- Cut labor hours via automation and shifting carrier disputes to RateLinx carrier resolution services
- Quickly resolved disputes, cut audit backlog
- Provided insights for successful contract and rate negotiations
- Standardized rate agreements and kept freight terms, freight costs, and ship figures current and accurate
Benefits School Specialty realized with RateLinx Freight Audit & Pay
- Quickly identified changes in parcel costs, identified root cause, and renegotiated incentive structure to save $2M annually
- Match requirements ensured carriers invoiced at quoted spot rates
- Minimal balances on aged invoice reports
- No surprises with late billings or posting
- Accurate, timely, and accessible data used for negotiation, planning, forecasting, budgeting
- Instantly accessed freight invoice data, lost savings, savings, and potential savings
- Confidently knew total transportation network costs immediately
Learn more from Penabout School Specialty’s freight management achievements with ShipLinx TMS And RateLinx Freight Audit & Pay.
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