Overview
Logistics spend is the largest hidden leakage in supply chain budgets. Freight bills come in thousands of line items across dozens of carriers, modes, and accessorial charges. Finance sees the total; no one sees the waste: over-paid rates vs. market, sub-optimal mode choices (air when ocean would have sufficed), and fragmented carrier spend that surrenders volume leverage.
The Logistics Cost Optimization System decomposes freight spend into its components, benchmarks rates against indexes, models optimal mode choices per shipment profile, and identifies consolidation opportunities — producing realistic, attributable savings estimates for procurement decisions.
What you get: - Freight spend decomposition (mode × lane × carrier × accessorial) - Rate benchmarking against market indexes (Xeneta, DAT, FreightWaves SONAR) - Mode optimization per shipment profile (air/ocean/truck/rail/intermodal) - Carrier consolidation analysis with volume leverage quantification - Accessorial fee audit (detention, demurrage, fuel surcharge) - Scenario modeling (rate renegotiation, mode shift, carrier consolidation) - 12-month savings trajectory with confidence bands - RFP preparation with data-backed baseline
Built for: supply chain directors, logistics managers, and procurement teams who need to defend freight spend levels to finance — or identify the savings that are hiding in the detail.