Still have questions?

Internal staff support, outsourcing, or both?

Does your company know what it's annual freight costs are?

Is your company experiencing fast growth and finds it lacks the logistics expertise to assist in this growth?

Has your company downsized, restructured, re-engineered or considering doing so in an effort to reduce costs and concentrate available resources on your company's core competency?

Is your company considering or have a need for outsourcing light assembly, packaging, labeling, bar coding, line sequencing, warehousing, cross docking, and/or distribution, whether on a temporary or permanent basis?

Does your company have a need to increase its annual purchases from minority suppliers?

Does your company now have the available internal resources, technology and/or capability to make logistic improvements necessary to remain industry competitive?

Are your company's competitors outsourcing their logistic functions in order to gain a competitive edge in cost and supply chain management controls, along with improvements in customer service?

Does your company have the volume of shipments necessary to command lower pricing considerations from freight service providers?

Does your company have the time and resources available to look for competitive freight pricing and the necessary in-house expertise to negotiate the appropriate freight contractual agreements?

Does your company have the in-house expertise, time and resources to ensure that the correct freight charges are being assessed and paid, while being paid within the legal time period?

Does your company have the available resources, time and in-house expertise to monitor and evaluate carrier performance to ensure both effective supply chain management and customer service?

Does your company have a private fleet of trucks, trailers and drivers that are posing more operational and cost concerns, (tougher regulations, driver testing, hiring, training, safety issues, maintenance, fuel, lease/vs./buy, liability exposure)?

Would your company like to limit that liability exposure, the drain on your available resources to maintain this fleet and the cost to retain this fleet, but not give up the customer service edge you now enjoy with having this fleet?

Are there secondary benefits to the rest of your organization to be gained from the outsourcing of the logistic function?

If you didn't have questions before.... you should now .