LIVING LOGISTICS BLOG

One of the most common headaches for a company’s procurement department is launching an RFQ. The objective is always to achieve cost savings, efficiency and compliance, but it’s not so hard to lose the north when you have a lot of information to analyze and consider. The easiest solution is, of course, to outsource the handling of the RFQ, but selecting the company to achieve that task seems as hard as the task itself.

In an industry as complex as Oil & Energy, companies face multiple challenges every day. Logistics and supply chain are probably their biggest pains since most of their solutions should be tailor made in regards of their size and proportion. This requires a front-end engineering effort to create a plan specifically detailed that will end in a door-to-door logistics strategy.

Have you ever wondered how your company can create savings and find areas to implement continuous improvement projects?

Continous improvement is essential for supply chain success and an audit process is one of the keys to achieving those goals. How, you ask? Freight bill auditors play a pivotal role in the data analysis which allows them to detect opportunities for routing improvements, shipment consolidations, modes of transport and cost optimization.