Complexities in transport freight service are inevitable for any product business that has a significant customer base and is spread across the country with a great deal of warehouse management.
Transport optimization in logistics management continues to be one of the major challenges for product sellers. Fortunately, one can take certain steps to ensure that this challenge doesn’t become an insurmountable problem. While choosing a transporter, we need to ask ourselves specific questions so that we can make educated decisions on freight service.
One of the most intuitive questions to ask is about SLAs.
Does the transporter factor in some important parameters in their SLA?
Parameters like:
1) Pin Code coverage, including ODA, OPA etc
2) Turnaround time (TAT) for specific pin codes
3) Ability to compare SLAs over time – monthly, quarterly, yearly.
Detailed information of the services being offered, at the pin code level, needs to be captured at the vendor’s end, and this needs to be updated on a warehouse management system on a regular basis, in case new pin codes are added, or if services in specific pin codes undergo changes to ensure proper logistics management.
The most important factor is that your logistics management platform should have a Freight Management System integrated, like it is in our proprietary Maven™ platform. (read more about our groundbreaking SCM platform here https://www.glaucuslogistics.com/maven.html)
There are several important questions to ask before zeroing in on a transporter. We, at Glaucus Supply Chain Solutions, with our extensive experience, have consolidated these questions here https://www.glaucuslogistics.com/blog/digitise-automate-review-route-to-transport-optimisation/