Smarter Shipping, Volume 7: Tough Talk from Teamsters as Union President Sean O’Brien Spars with GOP Senator
Welcome to Volume 7 of "Smarter Shipping" with Intelligent Audit.
If you missed last week's newsletter, "Smarter Shipping, Volume 6: Adapting to a Changing Landscape: Major Players Navigate New Challenges," read it in full here.
Let's dive right in!
In this edition of "Smarter Shipping," we'll cover the following:
- The top 13 stories around the industry to know
- The latest insights from the Intelligent Audit Resource Hub
- Customer Story: Enabling PetCo's Omni-Channel Fulfillment
- Question of the Week
Customer Story: Enabling PetCo's Omni-Channel Fulfillment
PetCo, a leading pet specialty retailer, required a robust solution to streamline its omnichannel fulfillment process and improve shipping efficiency. Learn how Intelligent Audit's cutting-edge technology and data analytics helped PetCo optimize its supply chain and reduce transportation costs.
Tough Talk from Teamsters as Union President Sean O’Brien Spars with GOP Senator
As media outlets and newspapers turn their attention to the clash between Teamster President Sean O’Brien and GOP Senator Markwayne Mullin (R-OK), many in the transportation industry are thinking of the bigger picture: with negotiations looming at multiple companies, including TForce and UPS, is an emboldened Teamster leadership willing to strike? But that’s not the only news in the transportation industry; from the Teamsters to Target and drones to Dole, here are the thirteen headlines you need to know.
In the Senate, A Tense Exchange Between GOP Senator and Teamsters President
In a Mar. 8 confrontation between Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) and Teamsters President Sean O’Brien, voices were raised as the two debated during a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing on union busting. During the confrontation, the GOP Senator accused O’Brien of “sucking the paycheck” from workers. The Teamsters President responded that Mullin was “out of line,” according to reporting from Yahoo.
Negotiations Begin Between Teamsters and TForce Freight
Negotiations between the Teamsters and LTL carrier TForce Freight began in earnest on Mar. 6th, with representatives from both sides meeting in Washington to begin negotiations on a new master agreement. The current contract is set to expire on July 31st.
“We will negotiate the strongest contract possible at TForce so that we can protect our members and restore pride in the freight industry,” Teamsters General President Sean M. O’Brien said in a statement, “We are demanding a national contract that raises wages and resets standards. We won’t settle for anything less.”
UPS Partners with USPS for UPS Mail Innovations?
As parcel carriers search for innovative solutions to provide shippers with affordable, reliable service amidst falling demand, UPS and USPS have partnered to provide shippers with a new service. UPS Mail Innovations? combines the capabilities of USPS and UPS–two of the nation’s largest parcel carriers–by shipping parcels to the UPS facility nearest the final destination, then using USPS for final mile transportation. UPS Mail Innovations? presents a bold innovation in the world of parcel delivery, offering shippers the best of both public and private parcel transportation.
Great Content from The Intelligent Audit Resource Hub
The Five Rules of an Effective Freight Audit
For shippers, freight auditing is a vital component of the transportation process. Without this step, oversights in freight and invoicing can snowball into larger issues that can negatively impact revenue or a company’s reputation. Freight audits allow shippers to address small inconsistencies and errors before they become major issues that require more time and more resources to resolve.
Despite the necessity of freight auditing, it is a complex and nuanced process that requires an experienced accounting team and a significant amount of time. Unfortunately, many companies lack adequate staffing and resources to effective and consistently conduct freight audits. This blog explores how technology is helping companies overcome the challenges of freight auditing and delivering exceptional value through data analytics and insight.
The Logistics Analytics Advantage: Business Intelligence & Optimized Operations
As retailers with overstock and “a range of measures of shipping demand across the U.S. are sliding, freight rates are falling as a result,” according to an article in The Wall Street Journal and various other sources. This pattern has reduced capacity, making it more challenging for shippers to get the shipping capacity they need as they also deal with other challenges affecting the supply chain.
In response, logistics professionals seek innovative ways to improve operations efficiency. Analytics and business intelligence can help. Logistics analytics relies upon data relevant to supply chain management and the logistics operations of a company. It can help shippers optimize operations by enabling them to track shipments, consider trends, create better delivery processes, streamline costs, consider supplier performance, and create better customer service.
What do Freight Audit Services Providers do for Shippers?
It’s easy to minimize the importance of freight audits and relegate them to a tedious task for team members to take care of by hand when they can get to them. But that way of thinking about freight audits is a wasted opportunity for shippers. In actuality, freight audits can include a significant number of mistakes, so they're worth double-checking for any freight billing discrepancies. In addition, they hold a wealth of information that can be used to reduce transportation spend and create smarter shipping.
Freight audit service providers can take over the auditing process and utilize technology to provide intelligent insights based on the data gleaned from these audits. Freight audit services become a continuous process to provide real-time insights that are data-backed and actionable. Shippers gain benefits ranging from real-time visibility of parcel shipments to identifying anomalous spend spikes.
Question of the Week
What modes does IA audit and what regions do you serve?
At Intelligent Audit, this is one of the common questions we get from shippers.
We are proud to share that we audit all modes and serve globally!
We are a freight audit company with the ability and expertise to serve all your business needs!
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1 年Well said.