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In a traditional distribution environment, smaller shippers use either higher cost LTL freight, or they wait to build a truckload and risk missing retailer requested arrival dates. Freight consolidation opportunities are missed. With a collaborative logistics approach, KANE combines orders from multiple suppliers at our shared warehouses that are destined or the same retailers. This keeps products moving, keeps inventory low, cuts shipping costs for companies that “share the ride,” and reduces carbon emissions by combining multiple LTL shipments into one, fully loaded trailer.
KANE operates a load consolidation (share the ride) program in Scranton, PA. We consolidate multiple customers' freight onto trailers and deliver anywhere in the country. Customers are billed depending on the amount of space and or weight they take up in the trailer. Utilizing a combination of customer direct deliveries and hand selected pool providers allows us to save our customers more than 20% over standard LTL shipping rates.
Guaranteed rates. We calculate your shipment rate based on consolidation and we assume the risk if that does not happen.
Guaranteed delivery. We will meet your RAD date commitments.
Excellent relationship with major retailers. Through frequent driver interaction, we understand how they want to receive product.
Expertise to manage all data transfer requirements. KANE supports all common electronic data interchange (EDI) formats. Custom EDI programming is available.
We found many 3PLs that would consolidate freight if they saw an opportunity but only one, Kane Is Able (KANE) out of Scranton, PA, that had a formal consolidation program.
- VP of Supply Chain, Sun-MaidFOR SUPPLIERS
FOR RETAILERS
Sun-Maid® needed to reduce its LTL costs and sought a 3PL partner on the east coast with a strong freight consolidation program. KANE took over Northeast and Mid-Atlantic distribution of Sun-Maid’s premium-quality raisins and dried fruits, combining Sun-Maid freight with other customer’s products to create lower-cost full truckload shipments.
As a result, Sun-Maid reduced its CWT for outbound freight by 62% compared with non-consolidated shipments.
KANE’s dense concentration of consumer goods manufacturers allows us to combine your goods, at our shared warehouse campuses, with other companies shipping to the same retailers. We are then able to ship to these retailers in fewer, fuller truckload shipments – reducing your costs and streamlining the receiving process for the retailer.