Inbound Logistics | January 2022

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Floyd Gains Visibility, Automation, and a Voice in Shaping Transfix TMS

Supply Chain Resiliency Strategies of Top Performing Companies 2021 Supply Chain Benchmark Survey Results

Since its founding seven years ago, Floyd has been on a mission to change the way people use and dispose of furniture. The direct-to-consumer furniture company emphasizes design and durability, and they are very, very focused on the environment. One of the company’s five pillars is to measure its emissions and reduce its carbon footprint, and they are actively collecting data to report on those initiatives.

THE CHALLENGE LACK OF VISIBILITY INTO SHIPMENTS AND MANUAL PROCESSES WERE COSTING FLOYD TIME, MONEY, AND CONFIDENCE Floyd lacked visibility into its shipments. There was no central location or system for tracking, they had no idea of their delivery dates, and they had a hard time adding and monitoring carriers in their network. Gathering data was both time-consuming and unreliable, resulting in inordinate amounts of wasted time and efort. Floyd’s inbound logistics coordinator, Brenden Szpont, is responsible for all shipments that come from suppliers into the company’s warehouses, as well as all items received into inventory. Szpont utilizes quite a few “simple, frequently run” lanes. To schedule these lanes, he’d have to fill out all the information for each pickup — contact, usual load weight, typical pallet dimensions — every single time. By the time he input the information, got a quote back, and tendered a shipment, just booking a lane took him nearly half an hour. Additionally, collecting the data they needed to accurately report on their carbon emissions was a painstakingly manual process. Szpont would look at POs, identify the carrier assignment, track it down in the carrier portal, and then copy it to a spreadsheet. And he had to do that for every single inbound shipment in 2020. The manual process took him three or four days, and he still wasn’t confident in the results. THE SOLUTION TRANSFIX TMS GIVES FLOYD VISIBILITY, SPEED, AND ACCURACY IN ONE CENTRAL TOOL “Transfix has given us a way to see a majority of our shipments, and we can pull that data super quickly,” Szpont says. “Before we had Transfix TMS, it was really hard for me to keep track of what I had going on in my network day-to-day. Now, I’m able to see when shipments are picked up and when they’re scheduled to be delivered. I’m able to see changes in

RESULTS HIGHLIGHTS:

Collecting and uploading emissions data went from 3–4 days to 15 minutes

Scheduling and tendering a load decreased from 30 minutes to 5 minutes

Descartes Systems Group, Inc. | www.descartes.com | 2021 Supply Chain Benchmark Survey Results

2022 MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY OUTLOOK Offered by Deloitte It is unusual to see positive economic indicators amid

SUPPLY CHAIN RESILIENCY STRATEGIES OF TOP PERFORMING COMPANIES Offered by Descartes

FLOYD GAINS VISIBILITY, AUTOMATION, AND A VOICE IN SHAPING TRANSFIX TMS Offered by Transx Floyd Furniture struggled to

With the supply chain crunch likely continuing into 2022, the situation for many organizations could go from bad to worse unless they have solid strategies.

unprecedented labor and supply chain challenges, but this is the trajectory for U.S. manufacturing in 2022. However, optimism around revenue growth is held in check by caution from ongoing risks. Read this free whitepaper to uncover the five important trends to consider for manufacturing playbooks in the year ahead.

manage shipments with its full- truckload and less-than-truckload carriers due to manual processes, costing them time, money, and

This benchmark analysis uncovers the supply chain resiliency strategies of top-

confidence. Learn how the retailer lowered the cost for

shipments quarter over quarter, decreased the time to schedule and tender loads, and reduced the time to collect emissions data from several days to 15 minutes.

performing companies as well as the critical steps you can take to reduce risk.

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