Reduce Total Transportation Costs by 15-20%

In today’s environment, transportation departments are under tremendous pressure to continually improve customer service while reducing operating costs. This task has become even more difficult for delivery-intensive operations due to rising fuel and insurance costs, continued upward wage pressure, and recent DOT regulations reducing driver hours of service. Companies such as those in retail, food, consumer goods and third party logistics with their own fleets usually have substantial capital invested in these mobile assets.

The program can be broken down into the following components:

• Investigation: Operating plans, scheduling and work methods are reviewed and optimized.

• Development: Here engineered standards are produced that reflect the unique operational characteristics, which include finite delivery applications as well as industry leading travel applications.
  
  
• Implementation: Once standards are defined, a software solution that integrates with existing on board technology is put into place to provide performance monitoring and reporting. Driver incentive programs are also implemented to ensure program acceptance.
  
  
• Growth & Renewal: Long term cost savings are realized though constant results analysis and adjustments to work procedures and standards as conditions change. Driver education is also provided to ensure that new drivers are as efficient as long tenured employees.

Other alternatives have failed to deliver promised cost savings because they focus on only the standards generation or the software side of the equation. ViaMode:Transportation fully integrates professional services and technology to provide a complete solution. ViaMode provides:

Custom Performance Dashboards: With the click of the mouse, drivers can monitor their own performance to standards, find areas where improvement is needed and determine their incentive status. Managers can get an instant view of their driver’s performance and make appropriate adjustments. Personal and corporate Key Performance Indicators are available any time and in real time.

Travel Zone Analysis: Geographic Travel Zones are established that provide for the most accurate application of travel data. Travel information is gathered from a comprehensive analysis of onboard computer travel data. It is broken into geographic zones, applied by day and hour of the day to create an analysis of travel variances. “What If” modeling capabilities are available so that a variety of travel scenarios can be tested to find the most efficient use of the fleet.

Routing Matrix: The routing matrix uses Geographic Travel Zones to find opportunities for backhauling so that the maximum number of return trips are full.

For more information and to get started reducing your transportation costs, contact us.