Transportation Providers: Avoid Hard Times Despite Soft Market and Rising Fuel Costs

After a decade of strong demand, transportation providers are facing double trouble with a softening economy and rapidly rising fuel costs. As a carrier, the economic slowdown means fewer shipments and less leverage in negotiations. As a result, you can't pass along fuel cost increases by raising rates or adding surcharges—or make up for the shortfall with increased volume.

At times like these, optimizing your business becomes more important than ever. Manhattan Associates' Carrier Management solutions address the specific needs of carriers. In fact, more than half of the top 100 motor carriers in North America use Manhattan's Carrier Management solutions. Manhattan will give you the edge you need to stay on the road to profitability with optimized routing, profitability analysis, and improved driver and customer satisfaction.

Put Your Business in Overdrive

Whether you're focused on reducing fuel costs, improving on-time deliveries, profitably pricing new contracts or getting your drivers home on the weekend, Carrier Management gives you the tools you need to optimize your business:

• Driver&Load®: Match specific drivers to the best possible load combinations across your global network. Update driver-to-load combinations in real time.
• Drop&Swap®: Improve efficiency by evaluating all potential drivers and load combinations to determine optimal swaps. Receive alerts and monitor changing estimated time of arrivals to identify emerging problems and avert service failures.
• Fuel&Route®: Determine optimal routing and fuel recommendations while balancing driver requests and preferences. Reduce out-of-route miles and costs for fuel, taxes and tolls.
• Load Analyzer: Respond to load requests, solicit freight in markets with surplus capacity and create the optimal repositioning plan in anticipation of demand.
• Profit Analyzer: Assess the long-term value of each shipper, each lane and each shipment in your freight network. Capture and optimize the key factors affecting profitability, including freight revenues, network balance, driver utilization, fixed equipment costs, overhead allocation, deadhead and dwell time.