Inbound Logistics | February 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:

2021 Third-Party Logistics Warehouse Benchmark Report

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

SUPPLY CHAIN RESILIENCY STRATEGIES OF TOP PERFORMING COMPANIES Offered by Descartes With the supply chain crunch likely continuing well into 2022, the situation for many organizations could go from bad to worse unless they have solid strategies. This benchmark survey analysis uncovers the supply chain resiliency strategies of top-performing companies as well as the critical steps you can take to reduce risk and create a more resilient supply chain..

FLOYD GAINS VISIBILITY, AUTOMATION, AND A VOICE IN SHAPING TRANSFIX TMS Offered by Transx Direct-to-consumer brand Floyd Furniture struggled to manage shipments with its full-truckload and less-than-truckload carriers due to manual processes, costing them time, money, and confidence. Learn how Floyd 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.

THIRD-PARTY LOGISTICS WAREHOUSE BENCHMARK REPORT Offered by 3PL Central

Using aggregated responses from logistics professionals who own or operate third-party logistics (3PL) warehouses, this report provides insight on industry-specific topics including analysis of best practices for growth opportunities, the labor shortage, technology integration, and trends 3PLs need to know to remain competitive.

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FROM FOOD TO PHARMA: HOW HAS THE COLD CHAIN EVOLVED? Jeremy Schneider Business Development Director, Controlant

The ripple effect of global supply chain disruption has touched everything from food to pharmaceuticals. And for shipments that rely on temperature-controlled environments, the challenges grow even more complex. As companies look for new ways to do more with less, innovating on the fly becomes more important. Jeremy Schneider of Controlant discusses the state of cold chain today. bit.ly/ControlantJan22Pod

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