Logistics simplifies the complexities of transporting freight.How efficient and effective is your company’s management of less-than-truckload (LTL), truckload (TL) and multi-modal freight? You may be paying too much and still fall short in terms of service. Selecting the right carriers with the right service at the right costs is a challenge for any company.

At UPS Supply Chain Solutions®, we provide an advanced freight solution to help you improve performance and reduce transportation costs. That’s logistics for businesses on the move.

As a leading transportation services provider, we have the proven experience to enhance your business performance. Our established relationships with the major service providers and industry leaders help ensure excellent service at competitive rates, providing comprehensive solutions and total support.

Why continue to handle the complexities of transportation management on your own? Let UPS guide you through the challenging process of working with carriers, tariffs, rates, discounts, contracts and more.

Transportation Management

To request more information about UPS Transportation Management, call 1-866-280-7326, email transmgtinfo@ups.com or visit us at ups.com®.

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CASE STUDY

Focus on business, let UPS focus on transportationIf your transportation flows are more efficient, your business can be more productive. Here’s how our solution helped a Florida-based pharmaceutical company with a world-wide market streamline and centralize its transportation management.

Challenge — Decentralized, site-specific program required centralized, scalable transportation logistics management to leverage rates and gain visibility to vendor cost increases and service failures

Solution — Outsourcing transportation management to UPS created a centralized, dedicated staffing model, providing consistent processes, routing, carrier management and reporting

Results — UPS allowed the company to focus on its core business while improving time in transit and reducing costs. This improved service and made capital reinvestment in the business possible.

• Documented savings of 21 percent the first year, 15 percent the second

• Single contact reduces transportation- and technology-related overhead

• Improved routing and lane selection improves time in transit

• Billing and monthly metrics reporting simplifies performance tracking

• Eliminated costly expedited services caused by vendor mistakes

Use buying power to achieve transportation savingsYou can help improve performance and reduce costs by using UPS buying power in the trans portation marketplace. These services are available to you at competitive rates that can deliver substantial savings straight to your bottom line.

Enhance your business performanceWith our transportation management services, you can:

• Help reduce costs associated with managing transportation

• Capture shipping data for billing and reporting

• Help reduce administrative expenses

Gain access to transportation management expertisePut our transportation specialists to work for you. Our extensive management expertise comes from years of working with some of the best names in the business. Your company can benefit from our carrier relations and carrier contract management services. We’ll help you make informed transportation decisions.

Experience the advantages of a strong core carrier programLeveraging our core carrier program can provide cost and service advantages that your company may not be able to achieve on its own. You’ll also benefit from our carrier quality program in which we continuously monitor carrier quality and reliability.

FEATUrES AnD BEnEFITS

Logistics can make your world work better and keep your business on solid ground:

• One point of contact for single or multiple modes

• Weekly consolidated invoices

• Carrier compliance performance reporting

• Claims administration and management

• reporting: costs, savings, trends

• Utilize UPS buying power

• Online rating and routing

• Contract management

“ We have seen substantial savings in both our inbound and outbound freight charges.”

— Director of Distribution Promotional Distributor