With today’s high fuel costs and the drive to reduce emissions, it is vital that we manage transportation resources in the most economical and “green” way possible.

TriPoint’s transportation services are specifically designed to enable economical operations in today’s business climate.  Combined with our years of intimate knowledge gained working within manufacturers, distributors, carriers, forwarders/brokers and logistics companies – our services cover the entire playing field and quickly enable clients to provide superior results.

We believe the best managed companies employ a combination of metrics, software, carrier collaboration and a continuous improvement approach to make the most advantageous use possible of transportation resources.  Whatever the challenge of the moment is - high fuel prices, lack of drivers, lack of capacity, or emergency weather conditions – the best managed companies have a strategy in place to deal with it.  Our job is to understand what Best Practices work in a given situation and assist our clients with taking the steps necessary to apply Best Practices where they make sense.

Our general transportation services are:

• Logistics and transportation operations assessment
• Transportation base-lining, benchmarking and metrics comparison
• Container/truck load configuration assessment & improvement
• Best practices recognition and implementation
• Carrier management process improvement
• Core carrier, process and systems management programs
• Core measures and drivers
• Strategy formulation and implementation
• Transportation Systems
• Requirements analysis
• Vendor comparison and selection
• Dashboard/scorecard/Business Intelligence install and rollout
• System implementation

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  The surge in worldwide diesel prices has dramatically increased costs in the supply chain. The paper explains why both process changes and new technologies are important and how to take the first steps to determine what combination of strategies is right for your company.
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  Click here to learn more about TriPoint's green logistics services focused on managing the carbon footprint while reducing transportation cost.
• Case Study: Improving Freight Management
  Click here to learn how TriPoint was able to help a client break out of a cycle of freight cost growing faster then overall revenues.