Pennant Foods Organizes Outbound Transportation
Pennant Foods chooses LeanLogistics, a division of CHEP and a provider of Web-native Transportation Management Systems (TMS), for its On-Demand TMS to improve transportation operations for outbound shipments.
Pennant Foods manufactures innovative bakery products, including frozen puff pastry and sweet doughs, cookies, croissants, cinnamon rolls, muffins and Danish pastries. It also offers a complete line of baking ingredients, including bakery mixes, fillings, icings and glazes.
Pennant Foods uses LeanLogistics On-Demand TMS to plan, optimize, manage and analyze its transportation operations, including appointment scheduling to organize outbound shipments which increases productivity and streamlines workflow. To locate additional carriers to cover loads when carriers are at capacity, Pennant utilizes the LeanLogistics Spot Market, which automates the tendering process and insures that loads get covered. Because of rising fuel costs and increased transportation spend, Pennant utilizes pooling operations from its plant in Northlake, Ill., which allows it to reduce transportation expenses by consolidating less-than-truckload (LTL) shipments with other companies' compatible freight headed in the same geographic direction.
"Using LeanLogistics On-Demand TMS has helped us become a more efficient enterprise by reducing freight costs and improving on-time performance of shipments," says David Fleming, senior logistics manager at Pennant Foods.
Pennant Foods manufactures innovative bakery products, including frozen puff pastry and sweet doughs, cookies, croissants, cinnamon rolls, muffins and Danish pastries. It also offers a complete line of baking ingredients, including bakery mixes, fillings, icings and glazes.
Pennant Foods uses LeanLogistics On-Demand TMS to plan, optimize, manage and analyze its transportation operations, including appointment scheduling to organize outbound shipments which increases productivity and streamlines workflow. To locate additional carriers to cover loads when carriers are at capacity, Pennant utilizes the LeanLogistics Spot Market, which automates the tendering process and insures that loads get covered. Because of rising fuel costs and increased transportation spend, Pennant utilizes pooling operations from its plant in Northlake, Ill., which allows it to reduce transportation expenses by consolidating less-than-truckload (LTL) shipments with other companies' compatible freight headed in the same geographic direction.
"Using LeanLogistics On-Demand TMS has helped us become a more efficient enterprise by reducing freight costs and improving on-time performance of shipments," says David Fleming, senior logistics manager at Pennant Foods.