TZA Announces Launch of New Division to Maximize Transportation Efficiencies.

CHICAGO – Tom Zosel Associates, Ltd. (TZA), the leader in providing solutions to improve performance in transportation and distribution, has grouped all its core competencies devoted to improving the utilization of transportation assets under one umbrella. The new division combines TZA’s solutions to fulfill the needs of transportation-intensive operations both from a planning and an execution standpoint. Through this initiative, companies can benefit from TZA’s integrated approach to transportation management to solve the specific challenges they face in today’s demand-driven market, resulting in excellent customer service at the lowest possible operating cost and investment.

As the only solutions provider to offer a comprehensive approach to run an efficient transportation network, TZA addresses issues for both inbound and outbound transportation – from strategic planning and procurement to execution. These include:

• realizing drivers’ full potential by quantifying driver performance, taking into account all unique delivery requirements for each customer, each order and each route.
• identifying the optimal distribution network required to reduce inventory and facility assets and reduce the cost of freight and labor, while improving customer service.
• enhancing the efficiency of transportation operations through effective outbound delivery and inbound freight programs.

TZA’s focused commitment to improving transportation efficiencies has already brought in considerable savings for several organizations:

•“We were very impressed with the results of our productivity work with TZA. Beyond the savings numbers, which surpassed budget projections – payroll down by 15% and productivity up by 20% and growing – they helped us resolve some of the integration problems with other external applications and made sure things worked. We expect to continue to see gains from this one effort for some time to come, impacting sales and account management as well as delivery operations.” – Kyle Bohan, Director of Warehouse Operations, DeLuca Liquor & Wine.

•"We work in a dynamic, complex environment with more than 60 DCs, using a large number of carriers with varied service capabilities. TZA did an excellent job, quickly grasping the issues we were concerned about and providing us with a simplified, flexible transportation model going forward. The resulting combination of warehousing and transportation savings exceeded $2.5 million annually, even using a conservative estimate.” - David Harrison - Vice President, Procurement Americas, Alcan Packaging.

•“TZA reviewed our inbound and outbound transportation processes and provided a list of opportunities to reduce cost and improve service, with projected savings associated with each recommendation. They applied their extensive experience to help us decide what we should change, what we should consolidate, what we should outsource and how we should organize our transportation resources to obtain the $750,000 potential savings that were identified in their assessment study. ” - Bob Whitney, Vice President, MKS Instruments.

“Most companies have substantial untapped opportunities to increase utilization. At TZA we are dedicated to helping them make their transportation operations more lean and effective to meet customer expectations while reducing driver and fleet costs 30% or more,” said John Platz, TZA’s Vice President.

About Tom Zosel Associates, LTD.
Headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, Tom Zosel Associates (TZA) is a best practices logistics consulting company. Core competencies include strategic planning, facility design and material handling engineering, productivity improvement programs, training, transportation system design and logistics software solutions, including labor management software and warehouse management systems. TZA’s critical advantage is its hands-on operational expertise, which allows it to create and implement innovative solutions for even the most complex distribution challenges.
For more information about TZA, visit www.tzaconsulting.com.