As import and export companies are faced with the need for effective integrated solutions, our solutions are customised for your needs. Damco is a proven end-to-end supply chain service provider and as such we are excited to outline our key industry leading solutions.
Customers who are faced with the need to allocate and manage containerised products to the proper market area, or downstream resale channels, will find Damco can provide cost and value advantages.
Core Services:
- Port drayage and yard management
- Transloading
- High velocity cross-docking
- DC bypass
- Deconsolidation & domestic distribution
- Merge in transit
- Automated sortation systems
- Container drayage via Hudd Transportation Services
- Bar code scanning
- Retail ready services
- Customised IT solutions
- US Distribution bonded
- Warehouse/fulfillment
- FTL/LTL transportation services (Hudd Transportation)
- Consolidation / De-consolidation
Transloading Value Proposition:
- Door to door cost savings: IPI vs. W/C + transload + inland
- Domestic inland rates: negotiate lower rate based on elimination of reposition
- Per diem charges on ocean equipment eliminated
- Allows for postponed allocation of product
- Protects inland equipment capacity
- Yard congestion / gate traffic decrease
- Yard goats decrease / yard hustlers decrease
- Door requirement decrease
- Labor delay due to switches at door decrease
- More efficient labour sessions
- Product flow managed at an earlier point; ability to expedite priority merchandise
- Reduces carbon footprint
Integrated Solutions:
- Tracking real-time inventory on the water, at port, and in yard
- Efficiently allocate product across all DC’s and DC-Bypass channels
- Optimise free-time at the port and in yard
- Strategic control of product flow from port to DC to enhance inventory-turn velocity
- Avoid demurrage charges
- Avoid per diem charges across all DC’s
- Tracking and projecting service costs
- Carton labeling compliance
- Outbound trailer cube utilisation
- Detailed carton flow
- Ship window and must arrive by date compliance
For further information about Damco Distribution Services, please contact our North America Sales office on (973) 514-5254 or your local Damco Distribution office.