Optimize Your Parcel Operations

December 28, 2016

Large volume parcel shippers generally have a significant transportation budget. This spend, however, often goes unmonitored just because of the sheer amount of paperwork required to track invoices and payments. Not optimizing and auditing your parcel operations can lead to a storm of potential risks, from non-compliance to multiple payments of the same invoice to someone fraudulently using your account numbers for their own benefit. It takes a team of parcel logistics experts – and total visibility across your transportation operations – to mitigate these risks.

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Spartan Logistics

Spartan Logistics is a supply chain management company founded in 1988 and headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. We specialize in a unique logistics model: In the midst of an industry that often seems to outsource every last detail, we own our warehouses, trucks, forklifts, and other key equipment. The buck stops with us, and we’re obsessed with making our customers happy.

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Spartan Logistics

Spartan Logistics is a supply chain management company founded in 1988 and headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. We specialize in a unique logistics model: In the midst of an industry that often seems to outsource every last detail, we own our warehouses, trucks, forklifts, and other key equipment. The buck stops with us, and we’re obsessed with making our customers happy.

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