Recent White Paper by Aberdeen Group titled Transportation Procure to Pay: Spend Management Trends, click link to download free copy http://www.freightgate.com/aberdeen/request.php?c=logisticsportal

reports the main concerns of supply chain managers are:
1) the rising costs of supply chain management;
2) the growing complexity of the supply chain;
3) the escalating demand for service from customers;
4) the need to gain more control and visibility to freight costs.

More than 50% said their immediate focus is on improving the ability to analyze and automate true freight spend. There is a clear intensity to collaborate, synchronize data and improve automation when negotiating, procuring and paying freight.

Top Strategic Actions to Improve Transportation Spend Management are:
1) Optimize or automate ability to source and negotiate freight rates and award contracts to the optimal carrier;
2) Automate data collection and analysis on freight spend and / or update to rate tables;
3) Collaborate and synchronize data with carriers, suppliers and trading partners;
3) Tie transportation, carrier selection, audit and payment together in a single process;
4) Improve internal ability to manage contract compliance after the bid process.

Read More about Ways to Improve Your Transportation Spend and Transportation Procurement process at http://www.freightgate.com/aberdeen/request.php?c=logisticsportal

One AMR Analyst once remarked: “Freightgate is one of supply chain’s best kept secrets”. Freightgate’s Logistics Cloud Platform, known as the Freightgate Universe, enables solutions empowering professionals on all levels to collaborate with global vendors and logistics providers seamlessly on a single common transportation sourcing platform for informed decision making across the entire network. It encompasses ISO9001:2008-certified end-to-end transportation management processes from procurement, rate management, optimization, execution and visibility, carbon footprint, through invoice audit & pay. The Freightgate Universe is comprised of adaptive easy-to-deploy modules to help companies leapfrog into the 21st century with minimal startup cost. Freightgate is the only commercial EFM compliant platform enabling standardized web services as promoted by the US-DOT and Transport-Canada.

Freightgate is proven to be the ideal solution to improve overall Transportation Spend Management and Transportation Procurement performance.

Partner with Freightgate to improve your Transportation Spend Management and Transportation Procurement. To schedule a No-Obligation Demonstration of Freightgate's Cloud-based Logistics Solutions, call Martin Hubert (714) 799-2833. Email: Email Freightgate sales@freightgate.com Website: http://www.freightgate.com

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