Understanding DIM pricing: The key to reducing freight costs
The problem is nearly an archetype-you tender your shipment of low-weight, high-volume product. Everything seems okay, but then you get a higher-than-...
Pricing Strategy
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Logistics Management | Pricing Strategy | Business Intelligence | Logistics Technology
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The future of logistics engineering is bright at IL2000
In recent years, the freight industry has faced significant instability in freight rates, compounded by ongoing delays overseas that create downstream...
Pricing Strategy | Supply Chain Management | Freight Costs
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Situation Files #5: Freight claims II — This time, it’s personal
We saved a company over $100k on one (incredibly problematic) freight claim
Pricing Strategy | Supply Chain Management | Freight Costs | Shipping
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Situation Files #4: Taking the sting out of a difficult carrier negotiation
How IL2000’s freight claim negotiation saved a customer $325 on one disputed shipment
Logistics Management | Pricing Strategy | Transportation Models | Supply Chain Management | Business Intelligence
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Quarterly business reviews and continual improvement
We’ve talked a bit lately about IL2000’s commitment to helping customers continuously improve their supply chains — the key word there being continuou...
Pricing Strategy | Transportation Models | Freight Costs | SME (Subject Matter Expert)
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Weighing in on freight claims, principles, and the power of patience
In what may be one of the easiest interviews in the history of logistics, this week we talked to Liesel Borovsky, IL2000 Director of Client Services, ...
Case Studies | Pricing Strategy | Freight Costs
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Situation Files #1: Shipment consolidation
How we saved a client four grand on freight in under one week You’ll find a healthy library of case studies on our site. Browse around and you’ll see ...
Logistics Management | Pricing Strategy | Transportation Models | Freight Costs | Business Intelligence | Core Values
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Your no-obligation supply chain analysis
What does that actually mean? “Click here to request our no-obligation supply chain analysis.” We use that phrase a lot! Pick one of our blogs at rand...
Logistics Management | Pricing Strategy | Transportation Models | Freight Costs
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Intermodal transport: Latest logistics trend or true game changer?
What does an efficient freight operation look like? Is efficiency getting the product to its destination on time? Or is it cost efficiency? Or is it m...
Pricing Strategy | Transportation Models | DIY | Freight Costs | Shipping | SME (Subject Matter Expert) | LTL
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What is good carrier compliance? Our experts weigh in
As the market settles down, you can and should take a more in-depth look of your LTL costing and service model. As carrier capacity pressure eases, no...
Pricing Strategy | Supply Chain Management | On-Time Delivery | Freight Costs | Business Intelligence
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Adam and Eve (& Stan): Why supply chain software can’t beat expertise
Way back in the 1960s the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) started experimenting with a weird concept. Their idea was to see if co...
Logistics Management | Pricing Strategy | Entrepreneurial Spirit | Supply Chain | Market Recession | Transportation Models | Logistics History and Speculation | Supply Chain Management | Freight Costs | Business Intelligence
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Us, them ... and the great unknown
In spring 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed a new set of rules to standardize how publicly traded companies disclose climate...