Logistics Center of Excellence

Insight Sourcing Group’s Logistics Center of Excellence is a dedicated practice of logistics and sourcing experts who lead engagements for our clients across all modes of transportation and warehousing.

Our firm works with clients annually to shape their logistics strategy, execute strategic sourcing events (RFPs), and drive post-sourcing category management across billions of dollars in spend. The Center of Excellence focuses specifically on building and executing the proprietary benchmarking tools, templates, guidelines, rate trend analyses, analytics workflows, and compliance management capabilities tailored specifically to Logistics. Our specialists bring a variety of experience from industry and professional services with extensive knowledge of both operations and strategic sourcing. We understand the importance and value of balancing service and cost in a category often viewed as a commodity and will help you validate or challenge existing business constraints. By leveraging a variety of demand and price levers we go beyond a traditional RFP and optimize your entire logistics process to unlock hidden value.

Logistics Thought Leadership & Resource Center

Market Intel
Quarterly report on market pricing, supplier news, projections, predictions, and recommendations

 

Category Insights
Category-specific point of views and best practices from Insight Sourcing Group's recent sourcing engagements and projects.
Webinars
Companion category-specific webinar series hosted by our Logistics and Transportation consultants

     > Webinar: Ocean Freight

Logistics Dashboards and Category Analytics

Our Center of Excellence leverages Insight Analytics, our proprietary category analytics managed service, to reduce leakage and drive post-sourcing compliance and optimization. Insight Analytics has dedicated resources who will ensure and monitor you capture all of the savings the Logistics Center of Excellence has found for you in the sourcing process. In addition to savings tracking, the Insight Analytics team will look for other opportunities like mode shifting, shipment consolidation, award optimization, and service level utilization to further drive cost down in your logistics spend.

This is a procurement dashboard leveraged by Insight Sourcing Group's Logistics Center of Excellence.

Category Expertise

Our team has experience in over thirty categories and subcategories ranging from all varieties of Truckload (TL), Less Than Truckload (LTL), Freight Forwarding, Small Parcel, and Contract Logistics (Warehousing). Our clients see on average a year one ROI of 4x-10x with savings averaging between 8-20%.

  • Air Freight
  • Bulk Ocean
  • Containerized Ocean Freight
  • Contract Logistics / Warehousing
  • Co-Packing
  • Courier Services
  • Customs & Duties Management
  • Dedicated Contract Services
  • Drayage
  • Dry Bulk
  • e-Commerce Fulfillment
  • Flatbed Truckload
  • Fleet Services & Maintenance
  • Freight Audit & Payment

  • Intermodal
  • International Freight Forwarding / NVOCC
  • Less-than-Truckload
  • Liquid Bulk
  • Local Delivery – Truckload
  • LTL Home Delivery
  • LTL Retail Distribution
  • Overflow / Public Storage
  • Rail
  • Reefer
  • Small Parcel Shipping
  • Trailer Leasing
  • Trailer Yard Management / Yard Jockeys
  • Truckload

Talk to Our Team to Start Your Logistics Journey.

Do you have the right price? Are you using the right mode? Is your network optimized? Is your process right? Our team can answer these questions and put you on a path to seeing a 4x – 10x first-year ROI with savings averaging between 8-20% per category.