Measure

Every year businesses work hard to negotiate better carrier rates, but every year transportation costs increase. You need tools to identify waste and performance breakdowns. Agile’s approach begins with looking at facts—hard, measured data in one single repository, with tools to analyze your freight expenditures, compare your spend to industry information and model alternative transportation strategies. Leverage our years of expertise to identify specific areas where you can save money and improve performance.

Many of our clients begin with data that’s all over the place—in multiple databases, on spreadsheets and paper.  We consolidate all relevant data in one place, the Agile database.  We suggest areas for improvement that reach across your enterprise, regardless of carrier, route, or warehouse location.

Carrier Report Cards

AgileManage provides simple tools to evaluate key carrier performance criteria: service quality, cost per pound or mile, billing accuracy, accessorial detail, shipping volumes, claims—or other standards that are important to your business. Make the most out of your carrier partnerships.

Benchmarking

AgileManage has access to databases covering millions of shipping transactions for thousands of shippers and dozens of carriers.  How do you stack up against your competition?  We analyze your freight bills and compare them to others in your industry.  With this information, you can improve your performance and reduce your expense while meeting or beating your competition.

Bid Development

By measuring your current performance, we help you identify the areas where you should look for improvement in your carrier’s service, and areas where you should look for better pricing.  You can increase your bargaining power by focusing your negotiations on the elements that are critical for your success.

Reporting & Dashboards

Dashboards provide a quick graphical view of key performance indicators.  AgileManage lets you see at a glance where you are spending your transportation dollars or how a carrier or group of carriers is doing.  You can generate ad hoc reports based on whatever criteria are important to you.  With comprehensive reporting from a single source, you can effectively manage your transportation spend to reduce costs.

Measurement for its own sake is just counting.  Agile’s measurement approach delivers actionable information with which to build a plan that meets your transportation goals and saves you money—year after year.