How to Slash Logistics Management Costs Efficiently
Ripples-FMS cloud based freight forwarding software for logistics management and cost saving. A Transport management Software that offers cost savings as a measurable return for your investments in digital automation through effective optimisation of your warehouse & back-office operations. The Ripples-FMS freight forwarding logistics savings model has already proven that the results are greater than the money invested by our clients.
That’s what it simply means: clients will have a Return on Investment (ROI) within a short time after adopting Ripples-FMS cloud-based TMS software for logistics management cost reduction in their organisation.
Common Causes of Inefficient Vehicle Utilisation
How can we implement freight forwarding logistics management cost saving initiatives? One of the primary concerns for most transportation organisations is a low rate of trips per month for their vehicles. This is due to a lack of route optimisation systems and the inability to deploy cargo tracking technology across various locations. Potential logistics companies capable of operating more trips per month are unable to tap the opportunity with old manual processing and legacy logistics software systems. Most of this is due to poor logistics cost optimisation models. Read about cold chain traceability solutions.
Leveraging Cloud-Based Freight Forwarding Software for Business and Customer Growth
As per a recent survey, 60% of logistics companies find it very difficult to communicate real-time information, such as inventory location, truck status, shipment status, delivery time, etc to their customers and maintain strong business relationships.
Many logistics companies in the African region lack proper customer relations management tools and logistics platform solutions that offer higher customer independence to access online information. This is going to become a key strategy for logistics businesses and customer growth in a post-COVID-19 era. Cross-border documentation work has been reduced considerably after implementing Ripples-FMS.
Proven Strategies to Cut Freight Forwarding Costs
Effective and real-time info is key to strategic decision-making for logistics operators and their clients. Most freight forwarding providers lack the right automation for logistics MIS, business analysis, customer self-service, logistics management cost reduction, etc.
Management reports are crucial to reducing operating expenses and unleashing potential revenues in the business.
Purchase management, control, & Theft
Ineffectiveness & revenue leakage in the following areas:
- Misused consumption of vehicle spare parts
- Theft of tires and spare parts
- Theft of cargo during the journey
- Poor fuel management
- Issue of wrong invoices
Reducing Empty Truck Runs and Minimising Delays
Each empty km run by the truck is an expense for the transporter. Most often, trucks need to run empty kilometres as logistic companies lack proper info on goods pending to be transported from their branches to various locations. As per research, truck delays at various points (border clearance, workshop offloading, route optimisation, documentation, etc.) result in a loss of US$240 per day. As a result, it is difficult to get a return on investment.
Lack of alerts, driver assessment & rating
Alerts w.r.t truck license expiry, export permits expiry, vehicle service due, and driver license expiry are most often absent in legacy manual and old software systems. The absence of driver performance rating systems to identify problematic and under-performing drivers is often absent, which increases average driver expense per month. Optimisation of logistics operations will help streamline processes and improve customer experience.
| Ripples-FMS, being a standardised freight forwarding software with container cargo, fleet and inventory tracking technologies, comes with world-class product quality, robust architecture, and fail-safe technology. The solution is completely built from a customer-oriented perspective, addressing the pain points of parcel operators, fleet owners, and giant cargo movers. |
Freight forwarding software & cost savings
- Ripples-FMS features a centralised online inquiry system, efficient tracking of consignments from any branch office, tracking of underutilised trucks, and a route planner facility that helps to increase the rate of trips per truck and avoid running empty kilometres during round trips.
- Online customer invoice portals and two-way SMS for customer interactions help to communicate real-time information and result in more customer transparency.
- Management information system with dashboards, Branch revenue and expense analysis, stock analysis, traffic analysis, booking, and dispatch analysis backed by more than 200+ management reports, helps for real-time strategic information and decision making.
- The centralised inventory monitoring module alerts to misuse of spare parts and performs accurate cost allocation and fuel issues to the fleet. Wrong invoices and malpractices in trip expense billing, which form a standard 1 % loss of total revenue in the industry, are no longer a concern through Ripples-FMS logistics invoice and expense configurations.
- Ripples-FMS alerts users on fleet management and driver license expiry to avoid unnecessary fines during trips. It monitors annual maintenance contracts, tracks breakdown and repair history, and thus ensures optimum asset utilisation. The driver ranking and behaviour tracking system in Ripples-FMS ranks drivers based on previous trips.
- Ripples-FMS facilitates enhanced logistics document management that helps users scan, index, store, retrieve, and print important border and port documents, and dispatch documents that reduce delays at various process points.
- Warehouse Inventory tracking, monitoring solutions to eliminate cargo theft during the journey, theft of tyres, environment monitoring solutions to track temperature and humidity for perishable goods, tracking of spillage of hazardous chemicals, and so on.
Ripples-FMS transport logistics cost savings
The Ripples FMS transport ROI benefits cover a wide breadth of parameters within the transportation and logistics management cost saving process. Our basic ROI calculations for logistics companies demonstrate that there is certainly a huge amount of money that can be saved through a software-enabled process and workflow automation.
A sample benefit & cost savings ROI chart for transport logistics companies
| Problem | Scenario post Ripples-FMS implementation | Cost savings |
| The empty km run by trucks | X % of the average empty km per month. | 9999.99 |
| Increased spare parts consumption | X % of Avg Spares Issued per month has been reduced | 9999.00 |
| ……….. | ………………. | xxxxx |
Calculating return on investment can help you understand what’s working and not working in your business and bring significant changes. Like the above, Ripples-FMS is equipped with researched calculations that can demonstrate the benefits based on 10 + industry parameters once the Ripples-FMS software is deployed.
Expand Your Warehouse Intelligence
To achieve 100% operational visibility, our inventory software works in harmony with our hardware-enabled tracking ecosystem. If you are managing high-value assets or complex storage environments, explore how our RTLS solutions for warehouse inventory management utilize Bluetooth and Wirepas technology to eliminate manual stocktakes.
For businesses looking to scale their distribution, our inventory data integrates directly with our Cloud-Based TMS, ensuring that your warehouse stock levels and outbound shipping schedules are always in sync. If you are just starting your automation journey, we recommend our plug-and-play IoT sensor kits for rapid deployment of real-time monitoring across your facility.
Contact our experts to learn more about Ripples-FMS cloud-based freight forwarding software cost-saving ideas, ERP software and understand your potential Freight forwarding & logistics cost savings through our well-researched and proven implementation models