A leader in paper and paperboard recycling, with production plants in Canada and 80+ destinations throughout North America, was looking for rail commercial market expertise to help them maximize the outcome of their master rail contract renewals.
When their Spanish business unit announced a production shortfall and thus inability to fulfill existing customer order of over 600 wind turbine blades, this client turned to PLG Consulting for help.
Benchmarking and negotiating strategies, as well as insight on carrier drivers and competitive position, involving all seven Class I carriers in North America. Strategized and leveraged points to save several million dollars in rail freight spend. Achieved successful contractual outcomes without resorting to STB filings.
Although continually showing year-over-year budget improvement in logistics costs, a leading provider of safety, quality, conservation, and flow-control products to water infrastructure markets in North America, Europe and China had not done a major network analysis in approximately eight years. New executive management decided that an optimization study, along with benchmarking research, would be both […]
This global chemical company improved their truckload services, streamlined their technology delivery tool application and reduced overall cost per mile.