Save transportation dollars:
- Understand carrier costs and margins: .dt identifies where there is ‘room to negotiate’
- Rate benchmarking: .dt targets areas where rail rates have you at a competitive disadvantage
- Be more selective and negotiate more effectively. Tell the railroads: 1. the rate you need, 2. why you need it, and 3. reasons why they should provide it.
Increase market share:
- Be proactive within your own company; provide useful data and quidance to sales and procurement
- .dt identifies market potential by territory and metro-areas
- .dt allows you to identify the competition's traffic volumes ‘lane by lane’
- Understand ‘collateral effects’: how will competitors and RRs react to the rate you seek?
- .dt allows you to build win-win negotiating strategies.
Save management time:
- Easier and faster to use than ever before—information, analysis, and administration all in one—analyze an individual lane or an entire market within a few minutes!
- Understand the strategic issues that impact your competitiveness in rail markets.
- .dt is simple to use and to learn, so there is virtually no cost for training.
- A single license offers multiple ?seats?, providing a competitive edge to Logistics, as well as Marketing and Sales
- ?Coupled? with MS Excel, .dt becomes an excellent rate management system
- ?and FRN comes ?along for the ride?; 100+ years of rail management experience, at your call
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