The Menlo Transportation Services product portfolio provides consistent operational excellence, while reducing costs and providing the catalyst to transform each customer’s transportation network into a competitive advantage. Through its lean process-based approach to removing waste, designing new solutions and efficient execution of tactical transportation functions, Menlo Transportation Services introduces a new level of control and continuous improvement. Menlo’s people, processes and technology work together to streamline and enhance customers’ business activity, improve transportation efficiency and reduce overall transportation operating costs—from sourcing to settlement.
Two principal product offerings comprise the Menlo Transportation Services portfolio: Solution Engineering and Transportation Management. This comprehensive solution capability provides the framework, process and tools for Menlo and its customers to optimally and efficiently execute transportation activity, and identify and generate additional value and cost savings on a continuous basis through application of proven lean methodologies and tools.
Transportation Management deploys expert personnel utilizing disciplined processes and integrated best-of-breed software applications to execute a full menu of transactional transportation functions, across all modes, within or between geographies.
Solution Engineering provides expert personnel employing state-of-the-art technology tools to design more efficient, faster and more reliable transportation networks, globally or regionally.
In short, Menlo Transportation Services:
- is a more robust and broader transportation management offering utilizing expanded IT tools and employing extensive lean management processes and proven operational best practices
- leverages the proven skills and expertise of Menlo people and their extensive transportation management and lean operating experience
- offers network analysis and solution engineering either coupled with or separate from full capabilities for end-to-end tactical transportation operations management and execution
- can be deployed on a regional or global basis
- can be implemented for individual, discrete transportation management functions or a combination of more comprehensive functions in a customer-designed solution
- can incorporate single or multiple modes of transportation services
- instills a repeatable, standard framework for continuous process improvement and optimization of transportation networks and
- continues to leverage the buying power, scope and scale of Menlo’s existing operations managing over $1.8 billion in transportation spend for its customers
