Menlo Launches Transportation Services
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Menlo Worldwide Logistics has announced it is rolling out Menlo Transportation Services as a single, unified service to complement other supply chain and logistics offerings.
The decision combines all of Menlo’s transportation and logistics management expertise into one service offering because shippers want specific capabilities with rapid cost-saving results, Menlo Worldwide President Robert Bianco Jr. said in an Oct. 3 statement.
MTS goes beyond traditional logistics and traffic management because shippers are being pressured by capacity constraints, regulatory changes and price increases, Anthony Oliverio, Menlo’s vice president for supply chain services, told Transport Topics. “We were compelled to retool our entire transportation management process to meet some of the challenges.”
MTS will offer two primary services, solution engineering and transportation management. Solution engineering entails personnel using new technology and software to design more efficient and reliable transportation networks, Menlo, the San Mateo, Calif.-based logistics subsidiary of Con-way Inc., said in a statement.
Transportation management will include personnel from “upstream and downstream” business processes, said Carl Fowler, senior director of operations at Menlo.
This process means shippers’ sales forecasting and production staffs will collaborate with traffic managers and logistics managers as well as Menlo personnel who manage truck, intermodal and ocean transport, he said.
Under MTS, all freight shipments will be analyzed to drive down costs and eliminate waste and activities that have little value, Oliverio said.
