Cincinnati OH Third Party Logistics

Good morning. Thank you for listening in to talking freight today. I plan to go over a brief industry overview of third party logistics. I think it's always helpful to start with a few definitions and these definitions were pulled from the council of logistics management website. We look first at third party logistics and I wanted to note that the definition indicates that outsourcing involves all, or much of what a company's logistics operation is planning to do, to a specialized company. When we look at the provider role, we get a much more richer description of what kinds of things are really done by Third Party Logistics firms. Usually providers offer multiple services. Usually these services are bundled and they link suppliers to manufacturers. Often they manage the transactions across the entire supply chain, from raw materials to manufacturers, from manufacturers to distributors and distributors to retail outlets and to consumers. Typical functions 3PL's perform include transportation services, warehousing, cross dock, inventory management, packaging and freight forwarding services. So why outsource? According to logistics management magazine, roughly 80% of the top U.S. companies operate on a global scale. In the map on this slide the blue boxes represent production locations and the red boxes represent merchandising or service locations of providers to the retail industry in the global environment. Freight flow patterns and transactions are incredibly complex, outsourcing these international trade and customs issues is a growing 3PL segment of business. The distribution patterns in the domestic U.S. isn't really a lot simpler, although the documentation is easier.

This is the legacy airborne network. The center of gravity really was in Wilmington, Ohio. As you can see our network was always intermodal in terms of connecting aircraft and interhub truck moves. We had product operating out of Wilmington that moved directly point to point via by pass operations into California and the western states. But, a lot of this area that we call the white space, was in fact covered by air with our excess air capacity.

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