Maximizing the Value of Your Freight Services
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As previous shippers ourselves, we are acutely aware of the challenges set before you when it comes to cost-containment and managing your supply chain efficiently. Additionally, you are charged with proving your worth within your organization year after year. The status que just doesn't cut it in today's environment. it has to be faster and cheaper than yesterday, right? If so, you may be missing one of the best ways to deliver more value to your organization and customer base – an accurate transportation cost analysis and rate negotiation engagement. Our freight services add the missing piece to your winning formula.
Acting as your back-office experts, DMG's proven processes will promptly identify your unique pricing complexities and deliver a written cost reduction plan typically within two weeks. This process requires only 6-8 hours of your time, and this plan can be deployed almost immediately upon acceptance and start delivering hard savings in as little as two additional weeks. Savings of over 20% are commonplace, even for companies who were previously convinced that their rates "are as good as it gets". Our customized supply-chain processes will dovetail with your specific business goals. In short, our work sharpens your competitive stances.
- Reduce and Control (Short and Long Term) Transportation Costs
- Increase Velocity to Market
- Optimally Manage Inventory
- Accelerate Cash-to-Cash Cycles
- Improve Customer Service
- Solidify Carrier Relationships for the Long Run
- Introduce Meaningful Metrics to Guide Sound Decision Making
Support Sound Management with Concrete Results
The heart of DMG's value proposition is our promise to you: measurable results. Our introductory work on your behalf most often begins with a clear, concise, apple-to-apples comparison, here's what you paid, and here's what you would have paid using our expertise.
Using our data mining capabilities, a DMG freight evaluation accomplishes one powerful goal: it gives us critical insight into the true picture of your commodities and shipping patterns. This is crucial as it allows us to truthfully and precisely present the carriers with an accurate cost picture of your freight spend.
When the carriers have the highest comfort level in the most important component of the pricing decision – the data – they simply price more aggressively.
Bottom line: The carriers deserve transparency in data, and in return, you deserve best-in-class pricing. DMG's involvement balances the needs of all parties and delivers a win-win partnership with your freight carriers.
DMG has successfully negotiated thousands of carrier pricing agreements in all modes. Our success lies in our insider knowledge of the freight industry. Because or team is largely comprised of former carrier sales, operations and finance/management executives, this firsthand knowledge of carrier cost structures, historical profit margin trends, negotiating tactics, pitfalls, and counter-strategies is absolutely essential in crafting measurably better rate agreements. Are you absolutely sure your company's freight spend has been optimally packaged and presented to the carrier community knowledgeable as a bias-free third party like DMG could? If not, and if you'd like to learn more about the benefits of DMG's bid administration and negotiation services, send us a message at info@dmgpros.com. We will contact you the next business day to explore the process more fully.
DMG also provides strategic counsel and program deployment in the following service sectors:
- Cross border (US-Canada, US-Mexico)
- Pool Distribution and Consolidation studies
- Hazardous material (including radioactive commodities)
- High value commodities (all modes)
- Multi-location retail rollouts
- DC/Warehouse location studies
- Logistics technology
- Packaging
- Public warehousing
- Reverse Logistics
- Loss/damage prevention
- Freight claim management
- Trade Show and Exhibition transportation
- Outsourced Inbound Freight Management