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Freight Costs: 5 tips to get the biggest bang for your buck

FreightWaves SONAR

Freight management parties can rely on these tips to recognize and respond to transportation budget limits. Knowing freight costs in advance is essential to keep total landed costs in check Understanding transportation freight costs and current freight rates for lanes must be the primary goals of cost analysis.

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5 more truckload shipping strategies for enterprise shippers

FreightWaves SONAR

However, enterprise shippers can make a comeback by implementing smart truckload shipping strategies by retooling and putting freight forecasting power to work. And these additional five shipping strategies can help enterprise shippers maximize recovery and boost profits. Request a SONAR Demo.

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Conducting a Trucking RFP: Tips for Shippers to Optimize Contract Freight

FreightWaves SONAR

It’s because enterprise shippers are turning to new intelligence tools, such as SONAR SCI , to conduct a freight spend analysis to maximize contract freight use and allocation. That amounts to carriers receiving more preemptive planning strategies, such as knowing when to hire more drivers, order more trucks or take other steps.

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7 Freight broker sales tips for setting the hook with prospects

FreightWaves SONAR

Of all the various freight broker sales tips, setting the hook is essential for getting and keeping a prospect’s attention. . 7 freight broker sales tips for building the hook. #1: Setting up Google alerts on prospects is a simple but fantastic tactic in this list of freight broker sales tips. 1: Company website.

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6 Truckload freight spend optimization best practices

FreightWaves SONAR

Along with this fundamental tip, knowing the most up to date carrier pricing in the freight market and using effective tracking technology will maximize savings. Modern, more effective strategies in today’s freight market have overtaken the old ways of manual shipping data analysis. Request a SONAR Demo.

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Do I Need Descriptive Analytics in Freight? YES!

FreightWaves SONAR

That kind of analysis creates a stronger level of supply chain agility. Tips for using analytics that describe the past While knowing what happened is great, it’s not always easy to see through the mountain of freight data to really recognize what or why it happened. Request a SONAR Demo. Download the White Paper.

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What is freight load balance scoring and why should carriers care?

FreightWaves SONAR

Supply chain leaders continue to focus their efforts on finding the right mix of assets used, market positioning and carrier freight pricing strategies. When the freight market meets expectations and is less volatile, it is easy for shippers and carriers to not look at inefficient processes or their transportation procurement strategy.