Shippers Lead Logistics Provider is Translogistics

Lead Logistics Provider

Global Supply Chain

A Lead Logistics Provider (LLP) or 4PL acts as the shipper's primary supply chain management provider. They handle global transportation, routing both full and less-than-container loads, and other international shipments. The LLP defines processes and manages the acquisition and integration of logistics services, either through their organization or subcontractors.

The LLP oversee every detail, including domestic and international transportation. Services are omni-modal or multi-modal, supporting shippers with everything from small parcel shipments to LTL, FTL, intermodal, expedited, and specialty equipment types. The goal is to provide shippers with a one-stop shop, so they have everything they need to scale and focus on managing growth.

Complex Supply Chains

An LLP becomes your transportation management partner in streamlining logistics processes and moving parts and products, creating a lean, cost-effective operation. Acting as your primary supply chain management provider, an LLP defines processes, manages the acquisition and integration of logistics services, and oversees every detail on your behalf.

At Translogistics (TLI), we specialize as a lead logistics provider for businesses worldwide. We find new and improved ways to coordinate all aspects of supply chain management services daily. Our expertise in warehousing and managing transportation programs, or freight management, allows you to focus on perfecting and maintaining your core business. We identify opportunities to reduce waste in every area of your supply chain, optimizing transportation operations, coordinating material suppliers shipments, integrating supply chain TMS technologies, synchronizing inbound and outbound logistics flows, and modeling and managing distribution networks.

TLI offers comprehensive supply chain management, including logistics services like freight claims, supply chain data management, freight bill audit services, transportation RFPs, and TMS technology. If you need a logistics solution for just one part of your supply chain, TLI is your logistics expert. We support complex supply chains and offer transportation management supervision, enhancing your logistics operations and improving customer service. Our transportation RFPs assist your procurement process, including carrier sourcing, and provide your procurement team with tracking and visibility of the inbound routing program.

Outsourcing to a Lead Logistics Provider

Customers turn to TLI for LLP shipping services because we optimize every level of your supply chain with our subject-matter expertise. Our logistics experts bring unique operational experience from a wide variety of industries, including automotive and shipping food and beverage, to address challenges throughout your supply chain. You'll immediately see their value in several areas:

• On-site: Business reviews, shipper profile creation, TMS training
• Operations: Tendering, and Inbound Vendor Management
• Network: site and mode optimization selection, shipment routing, and realignment of national and LTL carriers
• Transportation management: carrier management, load building, and shipment tracking
• Financial: procurement, transportation spends, KPI metrics, and invoicing

Benefits of Outsourcing Supply Chain Management to TLI

Establishing common strategic and operational values reduces our customers' supply chain costs by 8-12%. We build a strategic financial baseline from the ground up to guide our decision-making in the ideation, design, implementation, validation, and value tracking of logistics solutions.

Outsourcing supply chain management to TLI offers several benefits:

• Broad industry expertise: Translogistics began as an 3PL serving manufacturing companies, which have one of the most complex supply chains. We have since applied that knowledge to other areas, including food and beverage, retail, and industrial sectors.
• Our culture: The backbone of any supply chain is the people who run it. Translogistics' operators and engineers have an average tenure of 4-10 years, demonstrating their dedication to your business and their commitment to running it as their own.
• Superior TMS technology: Effective supply chain management requires visibility into every part that needs to move from point A to point B. TLI combines industry-leading software and database systems with our proprietary applications to keep your business moving forward efficiently.

Why delegate to TLI?

When an ecommerce company starts out, it can handle all supply chain decisions and activities in-house. However, as the business scales, managing everyday functions and operations while making time for strategic activities like marketing and product design becomes increasingly difficult. In such cases, businesses commonly outsource inventory storage, order fulfillment, and shipping to a third-party logistics company (3PL).

3PLs collaborate with their customers to provide efficient solutions for fulfillment, inventory management, warehouse operations, order placement, and delivery, enhancing operational and cost efficiency. For small to midsize businesses, partnering with a 3PL, especially one that is established and TMS tech-enabled with expertise and logistics management capabilities, is typically the best option for scaling through various growth stages.

On the other hand, a 4PL is necessary when a business operates at the enterprise level, where managing logistics internally or through a 3PL becomes impractical due to the size and complexity of the supply chain. In such cases, outsourcing to a lead logistics provider (LLP) allows a company to focus on core functions and strategic priorities while leaving the supply network in the hands of experts. Partnering with TLI benefits both small mom-and-pop shops and large, publicly traded multinational conglomerates. We meet the needs of businesses of all sizes with our flexible and scalable logistics solutions.