Smarter Transportation is Part of the Plan

摘要

Seventy percent of all the freight moved in the U.S. is transported on a truck, and more than 80% of all freight expenditures are spent on trucks (and in fact, that percentage is expected to increase by another point over the next decade). Transportation costs account for between 5% to 15% of cost of goods sold, so it's certainly in a manufacturer s best interests to minimize these expenditures by whatever means are available. And yet, while just about every cost center within the supply chain has benefited from software planning systems, transportation more often than not is still being planned by spreadsheet, points out Robert Byrne, CEO of Terra Technology. Byrne s company provides a demand-sensing solution, based on mathematics and downstream data, and is used to help improve supply chain performance for such consumer packaged goods manufacturers as Procter & Gamble, Unilever and Kraft Foods.