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Transportation

Maximize the effectiveness of your transportation strategy and improve the efficiency of transportation operations

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Innovative, practical solutions that drive meaningful supply chain outcomes

Our experts come from industry, software, consulting, and 3PLs. They deliver pragmatic recommendations and solutions through careful planning and buying of the optimal services, minimizing transportation costs, optimizing order consolidations and route selections, and simulating shifts in transportation strategy to forecast responses to future changes. From optimized transportation pricing to arriving at the most efficient transportation mix, we keep you on the right track.

  • Strategy and transformation

    NTT DATA’s transportation strategy and transformation experts help you evaluate your transportation management organization, systems, and processes to improve your overall transportation performance.

  • Systems selection and implementation

    Our systems evaluation, selection and implementation services help you to determine the best technology for your company’s needs and quickly realize value from your investment. Some of these technologies may include transportation management systems, routing and scheduling, freight payment and audit, visibility, connectivity, and reporting.

  • Mode and fleet analysis

    Our transportation mode and fleet optimization experts can help you model your existing operations, evaluate and understand the impacts of your customers’ ever-increasing service demands, and ultimately design a high-performance transportation network that improves your competitiveness and cost position.

  • Procurement and bid optimization

    Our Procurement and Bid Optimization capabilities combine our expertise in both transportation and sourcing with the effective use of advanced technologies to determine the business-optimal assignment of carriers to your logistics network. Spanning all domestic and international modes — truckload, less-than-truckload, intermodal, heavy-weight air, ocean, and small parcel — our methodology captures, models and considers all relevant factors, including line haul rates, accessorials, seasonality, service levels and capacity commitments.

  • Last-mile delivery

    With ecommerce a cornerstone of the economy, customers have high expectation regarding product availability and delivery performance. More than ever, selecting the right carriers proves critical to ensuring you retain customers and protect the integrity of your products and company. Our team can navigate this complexity and help establish a comprehensive final-mile delivery program or enhance your existing one.

  • Ocean buying group

    Our ocean buying group provides the market stability and leverage typically awarded only to large shippers, allowing your organization to remain competitive without the high costs typically associated with smaller levels of ocean transport — all without the need to change your current process.
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