Freight procurement

Cut costs, reduce emissions and improve quality

4PL Central Station is an experienced provider of transport procurement services for a variety of customers. We offer our expertise in the form of consultancy services.

4PL Central Station has conducted tendering and procurement activities across all transport modalities, delivering savings of 15-30%.

Tender management
CO2 emissions analysis and reporting for transport
Freight agreement analysis
Operational buying / Spot auctioning
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Tender management

  • Statistics analysis and savings goals
  • Proven methodology
  • Tender management tool
  • Cost, leadtime, CO2 reductions, quality
  • CO2 emission framework for evaluation
  • Data benchmarking
  • Negotiations and nominations
  • Implementation of carriers
  • Flexible pricing - consulting, fixed price, gain share

CO2 emission framework

  • Analyze carriers in tender
  • Evaluate logistics network including warehouse and hubs
  • Create reporting model with own parameters
  • Use model to create "what-if" scenarios, e.g. what impact would electrical vehicles have on CO2 emissions?
  • Benchmark industry or transport modality

Freight agreement audit

  • Analysis of transport agreements
  • Evaluation of current statistics (shipments, purchase orders, delivery orders)
  • Delivering of potential savings / improvements

Spot Auction /Operational Buying

  • 4PLCS service to assist with auctioning of single shipments
  • Partner with your current carriers or team up with 4PLCS carriers
  • Easy, quick set-up and transparent tender tool
  • Customer case study: airfreight costs cur by 30% in a single year

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