Global Transportation Management Solutions
Comprehensive Approach to Manage Freight Spend

In today’s global logistics market, the growing consumer demand for fast and free shipping is presenting a significant challenge for organizations to manage their shipping costs while obtaining the demand of “fast” delivery by the end user. To avoid overpaying and gain more profound insights into logistics flows, companies that ship goods are on forage for efficient mode optimization solution providers. Having served in the logistics industry for more than a decade, Utah Global Transportation Management Solutions (GTMS) is spearheading paradigm-changing technology innovations to help shippers streamline costs, increase efficiency and enhance visibility throughout the entire logistics process.

“GTMS works in a collaborative effort with our clients to provide best practice spend management and shipping optimization solutions,” begins Shawn Shaw, president at GTMS. The uniqueness of the company lies in their groundbreaking web-based business intelligence system, which helps clients achieve 100% on-time service, 100% invoice accuracy, and allocation. This is accomplished while identifying 100% controllable cost avoidance using automated shipping optimization strategies. He also adds, “Our ‘Post-Data Shipping Optimization’ system determines precisely the best practices for all transportation modes and all carriers.”

Further, with the help of GTMS business intelligence technology solutions, shippers can successfully move away from traditional third-party freight payment and audit companies and provide automations in-house to manage client’s data more efficiently for better shipping efficiency and controllable costs validation. “Our business intelligence solution is specifically designed to help customers manage their logistics more effectively with an emphasis on all modes of transportation,” says Shaw.

Unlike other freight audit and payment solution providers, GTMS banks upon a unique long-term approach with sustainability as a primary focus. By leveraging its vast domain knowledge, GTMS is able to provide appropriate solutions for significant spend reduction.

We help our customers become best in class and have the lowest possible spend available in the market today

This way GTMS creates ‘win triangles’ between customer, shipper, and carrier that optimizes the deal and cost relationship on all the shipments. “For instance, we identify the issues a client's customer is having like shipper inaccuracies, detention, or accessorials, which misleads carrier to obtain inaccurate information for the shipment. Then we fix those issues, so the carrier picks up the right package and runs through their process and delivers the packages without any delay,” Shaw explains.

To catch up with the trend inclining toward Big Data and analytics, GTMS utilizes business analytics to assist client’s logistics specialist to effortlessly identify and react to logistics opportunities that will help them in saving costs. Further, with the help of GTMS shipping optimization solution, clients can generate concise, actionable reports, and measure cost savings for the ‘actionable items’ at the management level.

Shaw cites a customer success story, wherein one of the e-commerce customers sought help from GTMS to enhance their transportation and logistics performance. Their footprint had an average package cost of $5.85 per package and their average transit time to 3-4 days. Challenge, lower costs, faster transit times. GTMS was able to successfully dissect the data provided and identified multiple out-of-the-box solutions that ushered $12 million savings in the first year and took their average cost per package from $5.85 to $4.00 and their average transit time from 3-4 days to 2-3 days. Therefore, GTMS hit the customers goals with, improved delivery performance and a lower CPP (Cost per-package).

In the near future, GTMS is all set to launch innovative spend management and shipping optimization system. This will reveal opportunities that will positively impact customers’ bottom-line and provide the highest visibility with tracking, controllable cost avoidance and invoice allocation. The new system will also increase the speed and reduce the cost of relationship on all shipments and transportation from lightweight parcel to heavyweight LTL freight via truck, air, ocean meeting all Customers expectations of mode optimization and logistics management solutions.