Transportation Procurement
Create a stronger carrier and sourcing strategy
Transportation procurement helps you identify, evaluate and manage carrier relationships that support cost, service and capacity goals. ArcBest analyzes your transportation networks, evaluates carrier performance and develops procurement strategies tailored to your freight profile and business requirements.
Common procurement challenges
Rising transportation costs
Understand market conditions and identify opportunities to improve transportation spend while maintaining service expectations
Capacity constraints
Develop carrier strategies that support your transportation needs in changing market conditions
Limited internal resources
Access transportation procurement expertise without expanding internal teams
Carrier performance issues
Evaluate carrier performance and service levels to support stronger sourcing decisions
Complex transportation networks
Manage procurement strategies across multiple transportation modes, carriers and geographic regions
Changing business needs
Adapt carrier strategies as customer requirements, freight patterns and business priorities evolve
How transportation procurement works
Analyze
Review transportation data, lane activity, carrier performance and freight characteristics to understand how your network performs today
Develop
Build a procurement strategy aligned with your business objectives, transportation requirements and growth plans
Source
Identify and evaluate carrier options based on service, network fit, capacity and operational requirement
Award
Support carrier selection, implementation and onboarding activities
Improve
Monitor performance and refine procurement strategies as market conditions and business needs change
Transportation procurement support
Transportation sourcing
RFP management
Carrier strategy development
Lane and network analysis
Performance benchmarking
Continuous procurement improvement
What you gain
Improve transportation cost management
Strengthen carrier performance
Increase procurement efficiency
Improve access to reliable capacity
Increase visibility into transportation spend
Reduce sourcing complexity
Build a stronger freight network
Support long-term business growth