$1.5M cut across air, ocean and parcel with no change of carrier
Years on the same carriers, spot rates that moved every month, and no cost certainty anywhere.
25.8% cut from outbound parcel for a health and beauty brand
Their 3PL bundled fulfillment with transportation, so nobody had tested the outbound rates in years.
Four new carriers and a strengthened renewal for TaylorMade Golf
A parcel renewal sitting on the desk, the number two carrier at the door, and no capacity to run a real bid.
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Paul and team expertly orchestrated a competitive process with 20+ participants across three rounds, completing the entire project in under three months. Results exceeded expectations.
Joe Vincent.
VP of Operations, TaylorMade Golf
I knew I had good rates. I had a feeling I could do better, so I called Trans-solutions. They delivered 4x what the incumbent offered.
Sr. Director of Supply Chain, engineered solutions manufacturer
$21M cut from a top 10 pharma company’s parcel spend, with no competitive bid
They would not risk service by putting the freight out to bid. We used peer pricing instead.
A $24M consolidation model disproved before the client spent a dollar on it
A consultant said closing four distribution centers would save millions. They wanted that checked before committing the capital.
An operations audit that led to $15M in annual savings and 18% cost compression
Records on paper, track and trace by phone call, and rates nobody had tested in years.
$367K saved on $1.55M of spend with a new 3PL partner
Warehousing looks like a small line item, so nobody re-bids it. Deliveries were inconsistent and costs kept rising.
$4M+ saved on international air and ocean for a security equipment manufacturer
A flat rack from Malaysia, a low-boy to Turkmenistan. Lanes too specialized for the largest forwarders.
$23M in savings identified for a multi-billion-dollar food distributor
Transportation was outsourced to a provider that preferred keeping its existing carriers over finding better ones. We benchmarked every lane.
$8M a year and 22% off packaging spend for a global agricultural food producer
Six vendors, over 600 SKUs, and no agreement with the largest supplier. Nobody could see the spend.
Over $2.5M a year saved by moving Little Caesars off vendor-managed freight
Suppliers picked the carriers and marked up the freight, then passed it to franchisees. Nobody was managing it.
$1M saved by testing fulfillment against the parent company’s own network
The easy answer was to use the parent company’s fulfillment. They wanted to know whether it was the best one.
$2.2M saved a year and fill rate up 15 points by consolidating two DCs into one
They wanted to close a warehouse. The question was whether service would survive it, and nobody could price that.
Over $1M a year saved on PDMA-compliant sample distribution
Deliveries were inconsistent, costly and non-compliant, and sales reps were spending their time managing sample inventory.
Over $500K a year saved on both sides of a low-margin minerals supply chain
Freight ate the margin, and every expedited load sent to hit a production schedule wiped out the profit.
Over $500K a year saved shifting international air shipments from active to passive pallets
Active pallets cost a premium and weigh 635 kilos. Passive ones are cheaper, if the temperature holds.
15% off spare parts distribution in Europe, with service restored
Down tools cost the customer over $100K an hour, and the depots were missing their service agreements.
A 15% to 20% smaller freezer tank fleet for Genentech
A physical count across three continents came up five tanks short, with no way to trace the contents.
The gaps that were blocking a 3PL from expanding into new modes
Double digit growth against a manual back office, where keeping up meant adding people rather than systems.
A scalable TMS bought under budget, by cutting the functionality nobody would use
No transportation management system does it all, and most buyers overpay for functionality they will never use.
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