Freight
The category includes:
- All forms of transportation and distribution
- Transport intermediary
- Outsourcing (stock, materiel etc.)
- Service and quality requirements
- Infrastructure
- Competitors
- Environment
- Courier transport
- National transportation
- Packaging
Auditing, benchmarking, tender, implementation and post audit is all Acos’ line of approach and we call this Supplier Relationship Management™(SRM™).
Auditing Freight takes several weeks to do with advanced tools of analysis. An extensive database of around 150 Freight solutions from Danish and foreign companies form the basis of Acos’ proposal of solutions.
Starting from the Freight business, important experiences and contacts have been gathered about and to the commercial Freight market, combined with great knowledge about client needs and demand for professional experience within this market.
It is very important to know the market in depth when you have to tailor-make a Freight agreement. You have to know in which geographical areas specific suppliers operate and when their trucks are empty in order to get reasonable agreements for both client and supplier. In a very busy department of shipping and logistics, staff often don’t have the time to gather the information from a whole year of operation about transports, intervals, charges and freight rates.
Co-operating with Acos will give you:
1) A complete profile of your Freight usage
2) The assistance of the Category Expert in choosing suppliers for the tender, the Category Expert who knows the situation of each supplier
The result is often a 2-digit savings in % on the Freight costs and often a reduction in number of suppliers, which gives a much quicker and effective communication. The ’Acos Post Audit’ also ensures on-going revision of all made agreements and extra costs become visible and can be cleared right away. The Post Audit also ensures optimal implementation of supplier agreements, stop to extra charges which seems to find their way back on the invoices, resulting in considerable credit notes.
