How to Upgrade Your Supply Chain With Delivery Management
Typically, companies buy ocean transportation directly from a carrier or a NVOCC and then negotiate the service between points – port to port, port to door, door to port, etc. It is then decided how much control the carrier will have of the process and how much the company wants to manage with their staff.
Which, in an ideal world, sounds great! Until something goes awry.
Sometimes containers do not arrive when expected, and orders or manufacturing cannot be fulfilled. If you have a fixed staffing level to unload containers at your arrival point, but containers arrive with no standard cadence - some days you get none, other days you get double what you can handle. What does that mean for your labor costs?
You expect your drayage carrier to show up with the container you expect, and to depart with the right empty container to stop the storage clock, but then you get surprised with additional storage bills. You had a great logistics plan, but you cannot corral all the players to make reality match your plan.
This is where?Delivery Management?comes in. Expeditors offers a managed solution to track and plan container deliveries (inbound to receiving or outbound to export ports). It’s not doing the actual drayage – although we can provide that, too – but managing the multiple parties and fragmented data that are critical to predictable delivery.
Our trained and experienced logistics?people?work with you to constantly analyze, tweak, and evolve requirements in your business around container deliveries. Then we build practical and effective?processes?to meet those needs. Finally, we lean on our?technology?and existing carrier connections to automate these processes. And if something goes wrong, we actively engage to correct it.
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