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trucking efficiency—by tweaking the truck loading sched-
ule to match the company’s warehouse labor capacity,
Hopwood said. While that may not have optimized the
route from a purely transportation perspective, the strategy
allowed the customer to avoid expensive overtime shifts, he
said. “We adjusted the dates based on the availability [of
goods],” he explained. “So now the warehouse crew doesn’t
have to run overtime to match some crazy transportation
plan that says they have to ship everything by Monday.”
In another example, Redstone used its TMS to balance a
customer’s demand for low freight costs with its stipulation
that it avoid working with a certain carrier partner. “When
you use a rate engine, you can select the least-cost provid-
er,” Hopwood said. “But say some customer never wants
In a third example, Redstone used its TMS for balancing
the demand for an efficient route with the need to mini-
mize dwell time. With the aid of its TMS, the 3PL identified
certain warehouses that frequently have long delays—even
when a driver has an appointment—with the end goal of
positioning those facilities as the last stop on the route,
where they wouldn’t disrupt other deliveries.
