The Power of Collaboration: Optimizing Freight Costs by Sha

This copyrighted case* was the winner for the CSCMP 2012 Supply Chain Innovation Award™.Collaboration is often talked about, yet is challenging to accomplish. The right partners, products, and business cultures are key for collaboration coming to life. Shippers with dense freight reach legal weight limits but can leave a significant amount of cubic capacity unexploited in the trailer, container, or boxcar. Likewise, shippers with lower density freight fill the cubic capacity, but leave weight capacity unutilized. By combining its high-density freight with other shippers’ low-density freight, Dal-Tile is able to simultaneously fill both weight and cube volume, thereby optimizing the utilization of transportation capacity. This business case by Dal-Tile, Transplace, Whirlpool, and others, benefited all of the shipping partners by reducing their net logistics cost and combined carbon footprint. Please note: Case study fees are nonrefundable.*© 2012 Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP). Permission is granted by CSCMP to duplicate case study materials for classroom use only to members of CSCMP who are designated by CSCMP as Educator Members. Case study materials may not be sold by any party other than CSCMP. Except as described in this paragraph, no part of the case study materials may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form by any means without written permission from CSCMP. The case materials may not be uploaded to any public server, online service, network, or bulletin board without prior permission from CSCMP.
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