Randy MacLean, President — WayPoint Analytics •WayPoint Analytics •profit strategy •delivery costing •delivery profits •distribution strategy •time-based delivery costing Thursday, February 16, 2023—Any organization that runs a fleet can benefit substantially from knowing transport costs at the customer/delivery level. This component of the customer cost envelope plays a big part in understanding customer value and drives decisions on pricing delivery, setting margins and routing decisions. To do this at the top level, companies are moving away from using mileage, and toward a much more accurate and effective time-based measurement. WayPoint can utilize the better inputs, calculating very precise costs at the customer level. A time-based system is also dynamic, reflecting cost changes driven by daily route changes, opening numerous new ways to optimize delivery costs. In this session, we'll show your team how this is done, and how you can find significant reductions in delivery expenditures while improving customer service. This is a session for operations people, CFOs and chief executives, so assemble your team and be ready to continue the conversation at the end of this 30-minute session. Downloads: ManagingDeiveryCosts.pdf For more information about Randy MacLean, visit: www.waypointanalytics.net |
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