Logistics Plus Freight Management Solutions

Logistics Plus Freight Management Solutions

Pallet-FreightFreight management solutions are a core competency for Logistics Plus. In fact, the company was founded nearly 20 years ago to provide inbound domestic freight management services to GE Transportation, a division of General Electric (GE) – one of the largest companies in the world. The success we demonstrated in those early years opened up doors to a variety of other solutions, such as warehousing, international freight forwarding, and global trade compliance. Despite our global footprint and expanded solutions portfolio, freight management remains a central part of our core service offerings.  Today we help thousands of companies manage their freight – and we even provide on-site managed transportation solutions to a number of large clients.

If your company ships less-than-truckload (LTL), truckload, and expedited freight shipments on a regular basis, we invite you to try our four-step approach to better rates and service.

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The secrets to our freight management and managed transportation success are as follows:

  1. Talented, experienced and caring logistics professionals
  2. Honesty and transparency with our customers and our carriers
  3. Great rates, super carriers, and outstanding service
  4. Shipment visibility and responsiveness to potential problems
  5. Customized, user-friendly technology and freight management tools

If you’re interested in trying any or all of our 4-steps to freight management success, please visit our online freight headquarters at www.logisticsplus.com/freight-hq or click the image below to get started.

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History: Early Brochure

History: Early Brochure

LP-HistoryAs announced last week, Logistics Plus begins its 20th year of operations this month. To celebrate the company’s rich history, we’ll periodically share an artifact, picture, story or news clipping from the past. Hopefully some (or many) of you will find this interesting – or at least a little nostalgic.

To kick things off, here’s a fun little artifact – one of the company’s first company brochures! While the graphics and design have much to be desired, there’s no denying the early signs of our passion for excellence with statements like “Logistics IS details” and “Sweating the details to save you time and money.” Although we might have been able to “fly below the radar” in the past, we understand that there are still “a lot of high flying logistics companies you can choose from” today. That’s why we continue to work hard to earn our customers’ trust by going above and beyond the call of duty to ensure their complete satisfaction and total success in all aspects of logistics.

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If you’re a current Logistics Plus customer, we thank you for your support and your business. If you’re new to Logistics Plus, we invite you to give us a try on your next LTL freight, truckload or international shipment. We’d also be happy reviewing your entire freight spend by digging through the details to see if we can help save you time and money.

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LP India Celebrates Independence Day

LP India Celebrates Independence Day

India is celebrating its 69th year of Independence this month. India became an independent nation on August 15, 1947. Independence Day in India is a day when Indian people pay homage to their leaders and those who fought for India’s freedom in the past. The period leading up to Independence Day is a time when major government buildings are illuminated with strings of lights and the tricolor flutters from homes and other buildings. In honor of this great holiday, the Logistics Plus (LP) employees in New Delhi, pictured below, joined in on the celebrations.

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With six locations across India, Logistics Plus is fully committed to helping businesses with their transportation and logistics within, to and from India. We specialize in project cargo, air and ocean freight forwarding, warehousing, and ground or rail transportation. With our 4PL solutions, we can also help businesses manage their entire supply chain using dedicated resources and technology. Please click the button below to request more information about our India logistics solutions.

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You can read more about India Independence Day on timeanddate.com or at independenceday.nic.in

What it means to be a Great Supply Chain Partner

What it means to be a Great Supply Chain Partner

SCB_PartnersLogo_2015As we announced back on July 7, Logistics Plus was named a 2015 Great Supply Chain Partner by SupplyChainBrain magazine. The official July/August magazine article came out earlier this week. A copy of the article and the official, final listing of top supply chain partners also appears on the SupplyChainBrain.com website. The article points out that no company and no supply chain exists in a vacuum. Shippers and logistics partners rely on each other because ‘no one of us can do it all, successfully, ourselves.’ We all need partners – but which ones are right for your company or supply chain?

According to the SupplyChainBrain authors, when they looked closely at all of this year’s ‘Great Supply Chain Partner’ nominations carefully, they found the following top ten challenges on readers’ minds with regard to issues that their supply chain partners help them solve:

  1. Reliability – Meaning well is not enough; hope is not a business model.
  2. Excellence – If they don’t have this upfront, should they be your partner?
  3. Value – Seriously, what does your potential partner bring to the table?
  4. Expertise – Give me a partner who knows my business – and something I don’t already know.
  5. Problem-solver – You deserve a proactive partner, not one looking to you for the answers.
  6. Continuous improvement – Does your partner value ongoing education?
  7. Support – Your partner needs to support you well after the sale is done or the implementation is finished.
  8. Positive attitude – You need a partner who sees challenges as opportunities.
  9. Global reach – You can’t conquer the world if you have a stay-at-home partner.
  10. Strong leadership – What’s required is much more than Leadership 101.

We here at Logistics Plus remain very proud of being both nominated and recognized as a 2015 Great Supply Chain Partner. Our ability and flexibility to address many of the supply chain challenges listed above is clearly a primary reason we were chosen for the list. Although we don’t know for sure which of our customers actually nominated us, we do continue to receive many testimonials that confirm our status as a great supply chain partner, including recent ones from a solar industry manufacturing company and a shelter systems relief organization.

Feel free to read the full SupplyChainBrain article online, check out the full 2015 Great Supply Chain Partner list, or contact Logistics Plus if you have a supply chain challenge of your own that you’d like us to help you with (just click the button below).

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Logistics Plus Profiled by WiseTech Global

Logistics Plus Profiled by WiseTech Global

Logistics Plus was recently profiled by WiseTech Global – one of our key technology partners that is a multi-award winning global developer of cloud-based software solutions for the international and domestic logistics industries. Its leading product, CargoWise One, provides the most sophisticated and comprehensive end-to-end logistics solution in the world and forms an integral link in the global supply chain.

To develop the profile, WiseTech Global interviewed Jim Berlin and various stakeholders involved with the implementation and use of the CargoWise technology solution at Logistics Plus. CargoWise provides a foundation for our international freight forwarding operations (including our online eWorldPlus application), warehouse management system (WMS), customs brokerage solutions, and corporate finance. The profile includes an online overview of our company, a professional video segment, and a downloadable PDF flyer.

To view the online profile, click the image below or visit at www.wisetechglobal.com/customers/logistics-plus.

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