Save Up To 30% On your Transportation Costs

As the cold supply chain grows more demanding, so has the need to rethink a go-to-market strategy that balances cost and benefit. Mid-market food manufacturers find themselves squeezed by the all too frequent challenge of shipping pallet-sized orders without losing margins to LTL charges. Now, Hanson Logistics is offering a solution that gives all manufacturers access to a collaborative, cost-effective distribution system. Velocities™ Multi-Vendor Consolidation (MVC) launches October 1 as the core service of the new Hanson Chicago Consolidation Center.

Velocities™ MVC is a scheduled delivery system reaching major retail and foodservice DCs from Hobart, Indiana, where Hanson’s new consolidation center sits at the crossroads of I-80/94 and I-65. This location, east of Chicago congestion, affords easy in/easy out service to greater Chicagoland, plus forward-inventory sire for service to 2/3 of the US. Through Velocities™, manufacturers benefit from shared truckload delivery while retailers gain the same fulfillment assurance across all vendors. Plus, Velocities™ web-based order and event management technology offers a common platform for all trading partners.

“Velocities™ is a win/win supply chain solution,” said Andrew Janson, Hanson EVP of Business Development. “If you’re filling pallet-sized orders, you can climb on board and share the delivery cost with other manufacturers. You can leverage that capability in pursuing business relationships in new markets and with larger customers. From the consignee perspective, your docks are less congested and your order-fill rate is higher.”

For an average manufacturer, Velocities™ offers a transportation savings of approximately 30% compared to go-it-alone LTL. That can often be the difference between profit and loss in servicing all required DCs in a retail or foodservice network. In addition, Hanson Transportation Management Service, the managing department behind Velocities™ operations, works closely with client procurement and logistics to engineer a robust solution that leverages backhauls and continuous moves for even greater savings.

“By joining Velocities™, you’re taping into a web-based order management system and the critical mass of a national distribution system,” continued Janson. “Velocities™ essentially levels the playing field that has traditionally favored those producers who have the technology infrastructure and the volume for truckload efficiency. ”

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