Leverage better logistics to gain a competitive advantage
Across all surface modes, PLG Consulting helps you negotiate freight transportation and associated services to ensure that your delivery costs and service levels allow you to compete more effectively. This is just one of the many ways we help you optimize logistics costs and turn logistics into a competitive advantage.
Over the past 20 years PLG Consulting has helped negotiate hundreds of millions of dollars in transportation contracts.
We provide a range of support services, including:
- Cost benchmarking
- Negotiation strategies
- RFP process and management
- Understanding pricing and market environments
- Service and performance standards
- Innovative approaches to position your company differently versus competitors in the eyes of service providers
- Contract terms and conditions
- Total-cost-to-serve analysis
- Mode and carrier competition
Put PLG’s years of experience to work for you
With decades of unique, specific expertise and experience, we assemble a team for you that is deep both in knowledge about your product industry as well as the specific modes being negotiated. We can hit the ground running and immediately start delivering results. And we take a practical, non-adversarial approach with carriers. We help you position the strategic value of your company to ensure sustainable and cost-optimized logistics.
Our experts are drawn from senior executive roles that have experience from both the shipper and carrier sides of the table. We deliver an insider’s perspective on key drivers for the transportation carriers with whom you are negotiating.
You can rely on us to help deliver cost and service-optimized agreements for:
- Rail
- Truck
- Truckload, LTL, Dry Bulk, Liquid Bulk, Specialized, Flatbed
- Intermodal
- Barge
- Dry Bulk Vessel
- Container Ship
- Parcel Tanker
- Warehousing
- Transloading
- Bulk Terminaling
Whether behind-the-scenes, side-by-side, or as your representation at the negotiating table, we support you in whatever way best meets your logistics procurement needs.
Project Examples
North American leader in paper and paperboard recycling optimizes rail logistics via business strategy in volatile market
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...
Wind turbine producer in a tight production pinch ends up saving over $2.6 million in transportation costs
An international supplier of wind turbine blades found themselves facing a manufacturing problem. When their Spanish business unit announced a production shortfall and thus inability to fulfill existing customer orders of over 600 blades, they scrambled...
World leader in specialty chemicals negotiates better rail contracts and saves millions in rail freight
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....
Water infrastructure product manufacturer saves $4.7MM after optimization
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...
Despite current market constraints, chemical company reduces truck shipping costs
This global chemical company, delivering to more than 100 countries around the world, is focused on the manufacturing, formulation and distribution of crop protection products. They engaged with PLG Consulting to improve their truckload services, streamline...
Reduced costs while procuring and transporting speciality equipment across four continents
As an early mover and now the largest wind farm developer in the fledgling wind energy industry in South America, IMPSA found itself in need to procure transportation for over 200 blades plus hubs, rotors, and...
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