7 Best Practices to Improve OTR Transportation

It is difficult to manage OTR transportation through disruption. Shippers are seeking solutions to ensure consistency as market volatility continues to impact supply chains. We share seven best practices for improving OTR transportation management to enable shippers to stay competitive in the face of disruption. Let’s look closer at how these best practices can be put into practice.

1. Track Carrier Performance Data

You can gain more insight into your freight spending by capturing carrier data. This will allow you to make data-driven business decisions that have a positive impact on your business. Tracking transportation metrics along with KPIs such as transit time, on-time pickups and percent of truckload capacity used across your carrier partners will help you identify trends and potential opportunities for OTR transportation management.

2. Forecast Demand With Analytics

Analytics gives you visibility into your transportation network operations and networks. Combining historical data and market trends, and adding human review/intervention, gives insight into OTR transport optimization possibilities. In an industry that is constantly changing and volatile, analytics and market intelligence are especially important to enable businesses to make data-driven business decisions.

Originally publish on The Tech Trend