- Consulting
- Supply chain planning & optimization
- Transportation
Optimize your transportation network and transportation management
Implement clear processes and digital solutions in your transportation management
Reduce transportation costs with optimized network structures, shipments and tender strategies
- Seamlessly integrate transportation in your overall supply chain
Efficient transportation networks and effective transportation management have a direct and positive impact on costs, service levels and overall competitiveness. Optimize both your transportation management and operational transportation processes to ensure long-term success.
Whether you want to reduce costs, improve processes or digitize your operations, 4flow supports you with comprehensive transportation optimization solutions to make your supply chain more resilient, flexible and competitive.
We consider transportation as a key part of your entire value chain and combine transportation optimization and tendering with best-practice transportation management solutions to boost your efficiency for the long term.
How we optimize your transportation network
Transportation management strategy
Efficient transportation management is crucial for meeting growing demands in terms of speed, costs and transparency. Together with your team, we evaluate your existing transportation management structures and help you develop clear strategies to optimize your processes, IT and organization.
Transportation management is closely linked to your transportation structure: It’s only possible to boost efficiency and reduce costs if your strategy, processes and IT align with the physical network.
Transportation cost optimization
Transportation costs are an important lever for immediate savings. We can quickly reduce costs by optimizing routes, freight, capacity utilization and carrier contracts. For long-term cost savings, we help you strategically redesign and optimize your entire transportation network. We focus on both practical, actionable optimization for quick cost reduction and long-term cost savings.
Carrier strategy and tender management
We help you define your tender requirements from the ground up. This zero-based approach results in data-driven tenders that reflect your actual needs, rather than simply maintaining legacy processes. We support you from designing and managing your tender process to implementing it. We ensure that cost savings and optimizations are documented in your contracts and embedded in your operations.
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Contact usThe benefits of transportation optimization with 4flow
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Integrated transportation management
Leverage best-practice transportation management with integrated planning, management and execution.
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Future-proof processes and structures
Improve your processes, IT systems and organizational structures for high-performance transportation management.
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Benchmark-based optimization
Sustainably reduce costs with intelligent analysis and optimization of routes, utilization and rates.
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Transparency and control
Make strong transportation decisions based on a digital twin.
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Resilience and flexibility
React quickly to volatile markets and disruptions with continuous improvement.
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Seamless supply chain integration
Integrate transportation management across your business.
Our expertise in numbers
What our customers say
Proven success with top businesses
- BAT
- Bosch
BAT and 4flow implement supply and transportation planning optimization
Success story in consumer goods
BAT is a leading consumer goods business with over 55,000 employees globally, over 50 manufacturing sites and nearly 800 warehouses. BAT depended on a combination of platforms for transportation and supply planning, leading to some data inconsistencies and process inefficiencies.
The solution
- Roll out the Kinaxis Transportation Load Optimizer (TLO) by 4flow for outbound transportation in the United States as a pilot, then globally
The results
- Kinaxis TLO by 4flow and Kinaxis MaestroTM (RapidResponse®) implemented in US market
- Global rollout concept developed for the Kinaxis TLO by 4flow
- 3 months’ advance planning visibility achieved
- Improved planning efficiency and smooth collaboration among departments
4flow and Bosch optimize globally
Success story in automotive
The Bosch Group is a leading global provider of technology and services operating as part of a worldwide network focusing on research and development, manufacturing and sales with 270 plants, as well as offices and regional subsidiaries in 50+ countries. The equally sophisticated transportation network includes inbound transportation from suppliers to locations as well as outbound transportation to supply customers and its own subsidiaries. Each year, Bosch incurs transportation costs of roughly €1 billion, with road transportation making up 60%. This enormous sum promises a significant amount of potential savings.
The solution
- Develop and implement an iTMS
- Integrate all 4 business sectors and 19 divisions and implement multiple TMCs globally
The results
- +10% transportation cost savings
- Increased transparency over structures, processes, service providers and costs
- 7 plants, 1,200 transportation lanes, 23 logistics service providers and 3,500 sales partners in Europe and China successfully onboarded in just a few months
BAT and 4flow implement supply and transportation planning optimization
Success story in consumer goods
BAT is a leading consumer goods business with over 55,000 employees globally, over 50 manufacturing sites and nearly 800 warehouses. BAT depended on a combination of platforms for transportation and supply planning, leading to some data inconsistencies and process inefficiencies.
The solution
- Roll out the Kinaxis Transportation Load Optimizer (TLO) by 4flow for outbound transportation in the United States as a pilot, then globally
The results
- Kinaxis TLO by 4flow and Kinaxis MaestroTM (RapidResponse®) implemented in US market
- Global rollout concept developed for the Kinaxis TLO by 4flow
- 3 months’ advance planning visibility achieved
- Improved planning efficiency and smooth collaboration among departments
4flow and Bosch optimize globally
Success story in automotive
The Bosch Group is a leading global provider of technology and services operating as part of a worldwide network focusing on research and development, manufacturing and sales with 270 plants, as well as offices and regional subsidiaries in 50+ countries. The equally sophisticated transportation network includes inbound transportation from suppliers to locations as well as outbound transportation to supply customers and its own subsidiaries. Each year, Bosch incurs transportation costs of roughly €1 billion, with road transportation making up 60%. This enormous sum promises a significant amount of potential savings.
The solution
- Develop and implement an iTMS
- Integrate all 4 business sectors and 19 divisions and implement multiple TMCs globally
The results
- +10% transportation cost savings
- Increased transparency over structures, processes, service providers and costs
- 7 plants, 1,200 transportation lanes, 23 logistics service providers and 3,500 sales partners in Europe and China successfully onboarded in just a few months