Managed Transportation Services: The Most Important Factor is Trust

Focus on Inbound Logistics Improves Outbound Flow

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HighJump Software Innovation 2008
Nashville, TN
October 5 - 8, 2008
Jim Barnes and Chad Collins from High-Jump will speak on "Inbound Visibility - The Key Ingredient to Retail Flow-Through Distribution."

Jimmy Benefield will speak on "Be a Supply Chain Rock Star! How to Create a Smokin' Labor Management Strategy & High Performance Workforce to Reduce Costs, Improve Customer Service & Earn You Executive Praise."
Parcel Forum
Chicago, IL
October 6 - 8, 2008
Jim Barnes and Chad Collins from High-Jump will speak on "Inbound Visibility - The Key Ingredient to Retail Flow-Through Distribution."

Jimmy Benefield will speak on "Be a Supply Chain Rock Star! How to Create a Smokin' Labor Management Strategy & High Performance Workforce to Reduce Costs, Improve Customer Service & Earn You Executive Praise."
 

I am often asked by our prospects, clients and even our own associates, “What does the name enVista stand for or mean?” My response is always the same, “enVista means “enabling one's vision.” As we founded our company, it was important that we establish a moniker that reflected and conveyed the personality and goals of the company we were building - one that was forward-thinking and action-oriented.   

Six years and sixty-plus employees later, we still stand behind our name at enVista. We hold ourselves accountable for helping you achieve your vision. This is how we measure our success, and this client-centric approach has allowed us to execute on our vision to develop the leading enterprise cost management firm in North America.

enVista is and always will be focused on reducing costs, avoiding costs and containing costs for our manufacturing and distribution-centric clients. Through consulting in the areas of Supply Chain Network Optimization, Inventory Optimization, Labor Management, Technology Deployment and Transportation Management, we have witnessed a pervasive and problematic disconnect between organizations' overall enterprises and their supply chains. However, while counseling clients on ways to close this gap, enVista has not directly offered our clients a solution to enable this vision – until now. 

We have expanded our leading supply chain cost management practice by adding an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) practice. This allows our associates to support clients with procure to pay and order to cash solutions, enabling enterprise excellence. In addition, we have expanded our very successful transportation practice to include transportation outsourcing, whereby our existing transportation team will plan, execute and track our clients' inbound and outbound freight from source to consumption. In short, we have expanded our service footprint in order to help you reduce costs throughout your enterprise and execute against your vision.

On a related, personal note, I just finished reading and highly recommend a great book called, The Go-Giver by Bob Burg and John David Mann. The authors offer five rules, or simple life and business truisms, for extra ordinary success. My favorite is that “true value is not measured in what you get paid but how much you give.” This simple phrase really resonates with me. I spend every day thinking about how we can provide more value to you than we receive in payment. It's my passion and I'm proud it's shared throughout enVista.

Please call me any time to discuss how we can continue to enable your vision for success, deliver greater value to your organization, or even to discuss The Go-Giver.

Warmest Regards,

Jim Barnes
President & CEO, enVista

Passionate about YOUR Success

The Five Laws of Stratospheric Success
from The Go-Giver. A Little Story about a Powerful Business Idea
by Bob Burg and John David Mann

The Law of Value
Your true worth is determined by how much more you give in value than you take in payment.
The Law of Compensation
Your income is determined by how many people you serve and how well you serve them.
The Law of Influence
Your influence is determined by how abundantly you place other people's interests first.
The Law of Authenticity
The most valuable gift you have to offer is yourself.

The Law of Receptivity
The key to effective giving is to stay open to receiving.

Making good business decisions about transportation management outsourcing involves more than just selecting services, defining processes and negotiating pricing. To understand if managed transportation services are right for your firm, start by asking why your transportation function is not currently providing best practice service. With some reflection, and the context provided below, the answers may surprise you.

If you do consider transportation management outsourcing, understand that the most important decision-making factor in selecting a provider is not services, systems, staffing or even a savings estimate; it is trust. Ultimately, a shipper has to know that the managed service provider is a business partner they want to be in a long-term relationship with.

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Many retailers focus on distribution from distribution center (DC) to store (outbound), as opposed to supplier to DC (inbound) – even though it can be proven that focusing on inbound flow can reduce a company's working capital by as much as 10-15 percent.

In addition, retailers can experience reduced stock-outs, improved available to promise (ATP) for both retail and e-commerce, and decreased operating expenses.

With that knowledge, the question remains: Why would a company continue to focus on outbound?

  • Conventional distribution/logistics knowledge is focused on outbound.
  • Rise of the “import-centric” supply chain came quickly and retailers needed to respond quickly (i.e., getting to China ASAP versus building operational efficiency, a lack of international logistics talent, and reliance on freight brokers and asset-bound carriers).
  • Technology solutions are tailored primarily for outbound.

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Your supply chain network efficiencies can be improved through a combination of proven methodologies, appropriate modeling tools, and the experts at enVista. Win our Supply Chain Strategy Assessment and we will send a senior supply chain executive to analyze current and forecasted data within your supply chain, compare it to your optimum network, then identify opportunity areas for improvement.

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