The growth in Dedicated Services in particular - and in outsourced logistics management in general - is no accident. It reflects vast changes underway in the business environment - changes that pose many challenges to all companies.

These business pressures include:

• Shorter cycle times - the pressure to speed order turns to improve cash flows
• Accelerated and integrated product flows
• Re-engineering - redesigning supply chains for greater efficiencies
• Globalization
• Downsizing
• Private fleet justification ensuring the fleet remains competitive
• Better customer service
• Renewed focus on core competencies

Managing transportation to deliver the required service at the best possible total cost is key in your competitive environment. To provide the strategic direction needed, General Logistics, Inc. will design a solution expanded beyond the confines of the truck fleet.
Particularly if your corporate needs demand that you:

• Reduce overall fleet costs
• Reduce capital outlays
• Focus on its core business
• Improve customer service
• Reduce risk exposure
• Increase flexibility and efficiency
• Improve regulatory compliance
• Eliminate personnel issues
• Manage insurance costs better

General Logistics will conduct an objective audit/appraisal of your current transportation operations.

The audit/appraisal will answer such questions as:

• How well is the fleet performing?
• What levels of performance are possible?
• How can the fleet get to those levels?

• Determining the fleet's fully burdened cost structure
• Identifying and allocating all "hidden" costs
• Benchmarking to determine if the costs are competitive
• Uncovering inefficiencies and redundancies
• Both current and future fleet operations, needs, and projected costs