Transportation

Maximize the effectiveness of your transportation strategy and improve the efficiency of transportation operations

Build an effective, efficient transportation strategy

NTT DATA’s transportation consulting services combine deep domain expertise with leading-edge technology and data analytics to reduce transportation costs and improve service levels across your supply chain.

Our transportation consulting experts provide market intelligence, skilled resources and best-in-class approaches to help you benchmark your existing operations against peers, weigh service demands with your cost and operational needs and design a high-performance transportation strategy to improve competitiveness.

Our analytical and fact-based approach to transportation optimization will help define key operational parameters like the optimal mode mix, the best freight consolidation strategy, and the best use and size of your fleet. You’ll make optimal carrier choices – balancing service and cost – and ensure your technology platforms are operating efficiently and effectively, meet your business requirements, and align to your overall transportation strategy.

Innovative, practical solutions that drive meaningful supply chain outcomes

Our experts come from industry, software, consulting, and 3PLs. They deliver pragmatic recommendations and solutions through careful planning and buying of the optimal services, minimizing transportation costs, optimizing order consolidations and route selections, and simulating shifts in transportation strategy to forecast responses to future changes. From optimized transportation pricing to arriving at the most efficient transportation mix, we keep you on the right track.

Strategy and transformation
NTT DATA’s transportation strategy and transformation experts help you evaluate your transportation management organization, systems, and processes to improve your overall transportation performance.
Systems selection and implementation
Our systems evaluation, selection and implementation services help you to determine the best technology for your company’s needs and quickly realize value from your investment. Some of these technologies may include transportation management systems, routing and scheduling, freight payment and audit, visibility, connectivity, and reporting.
Mode and fleet analysis
Our transportation mode and fleet optimization experts can help you model your existing operations, evaluate and understand the impacts of your customers’ ever-increasing service demands, and ultimately design a high-performance transportation network that improves your competitiveness and cost position.
Procurement and bid optimization
Our Procurement and Bid Optimization capabilities combine our expertise in both transportation and sourcing with the effective use of advanced technologies to determine the business-optimal assignment of carriers to your logistics network. Spanning all domestic and international modes — truckload, less-than-truckload, intermodal, heavy-weight air, ocean, and small parcel — our methodology captures, models and considers all relevant factors, including line haul rates, accessorials, seasonality, service levels and capacity commitments.
Last-mile delivery
With ecommerce a cornerstone of the economy, customers have high expectation regarding product availability and delivery performance. More than ever, selecting the right carriers proves critical to ensuring you retain customers and protect the integrity of your products and company. Our team can navigate this complexity and help establish a comprehensive final-mile delivery program or enhance your existing one.
Ocean buying group
Our ocean buying group provides the market stability and leverage typically awarded only to large shippers, allowing your organization to remain competitive without the high costs typically associated with smaller levels of ocean transport — all without the need to change your current process.
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