Transportation Best Practice

TMG's primary purpose is to help you take your organization from basic practice to best practice. We use best practice to provide companies with perspective on how things may be done if applied to your organization. There is a cost to change the way you run your business. We give you the insight to help you understand this cost to change, along with the capacity for you to make and execute the change.

It is often hard to run and change transportation operations concurrently - think about who will, and can, move the bar in this division. Often, companies have the expertise and understand what needs to be accomplished, but cannot execute because their executives, managers, dispatchers and agents need to stay focused on other issues at hand. We alleviate that burden by doing the work for you. Just as there is a cost to change, there is a cost NOT to change as well. We often get things done faster and cheaper, so you continue to focus your efforts on core business issues.

We concentrate on five main categories when reducing your transportation costs:

• Strategy - select the private fleet long-term mission and develop resources.
• Operations - manage day-to-day transportation activities
• Administration - monitor and analyze results to implement improvements.
• Finance - develop Return On Assets capital budgets. Run function(s) as profit centers through cost reduction, cost avoidance, and revenue growth.
• Technology - use technology to enable above functions

We map your transportation requirements against how you move your product today. We analyze freight data such as pounds, number of truckloads, types of service used, origin and destination. This helps us make the best recommendations to drive unproductive activities out of your operation, so you can better manage transportation network.

TMG concentrates on providing total solutions for your transportation and distribution operation. We evaluate your current processes, identify opportunities to add value, then apply best practice improvements to drive costs and inefficiencies out of your organization.

Common fleet management issues are:

• Lack of consistency with functional responsibility amongst markets or deployed fleet
• Responsibility and authority not clearly defined
• Disconnected transportation organization among divisions
• Very little direction or support by corporate
• High employee turnover
• Decentralized routing and dispatch
• Fleet organization not integrated with the “ buying group “
• Fleet mission does not exist, except for the necessity to move product
• No or limited/occasional process is in place to monitor actual vs. contractual obligations