Set the stage for success
Start with a Service-Minded Team
When you partner with UTS, you get a dedicated account manager, audit specialist, invoicing specialist, claims manager, and client relations manager. That’s a long list, for a good reason – to give you a high level of knowledge and support across the entire shipment life cycle.
Planning Your Shipments
- Procurement events that optimize price and service to your unique shipping profile
- Delivery requirements for you and your customers
- Customs and forwarder planning
- Protocols to manage transportation risks
- Online product database for accurate freight descriptions
- Best Value carrier rankings
- System integration for expanded visibility and process efficiencies
Inbound Shipment Management
- Assignment to ranked carrier
- Value-added services for your vendors
- Violator management / enforcement of routing instructions
Shipment Orders
- Fast and accurate shipment entry
- Options for guaranteed delivery and additional insurance coverage
- Alerts during entry if we see an opportunity to negotiate a volume rate
- Attach any files to the online shipment record
- Predictive analytics show each carrier’s on time reliability on your lane
Shipments In Transit
- Monitor all of your supply chain activity in one place
- UTS active tracing finds transit issues sooner
- Detailed shipment status updates
- Three types of ASNs to share shipment status updates with stakeholders
- Track updates using our mobile app
- Notification whenever a carrier adjusts the freight charges
Shipment Delivery
- Delivery receipts posted online
- Spreadsheets for both in-process and invoiced activity
- Online KPIs and shipment activity reports
- Management of freight claims
Audit and Payment of Freight Charges
- UTS verifies that every charge is (a) valid, and (b) accurate
- We fix invalid charges
- G/L coding of charges
- Custom coding of charges (by project, plant, customer, etc.)
- Valid charges consolidated onto a weekly invoice with supporting detail report
Corporate Management, Forecasting, and Budgeting
- Online dashboards, reports, and detailed spreadsheets of your transportation activity
- Quarterly meetings to review our performance
- Opportunities for improvement
- “What-if” scenarios
- Consultation and elimination of Weight & Inspection fees
- Industry news and pricing trends
- Client-specific forecasting and budgeting
- Notification of NMFC changes that affect you
