SUPPLY CHAIN SOLUTIONS, INC. Is expanding the services they offer with Export Services, Import Services, TMS, and Customs House Brokerage Services
Export Services
The world is a big place, and most of the attention in the export services field goes to big companies. Supply Chain Solutions is different. Our services are available at a high level of excellence to exporters of all sizes. We take care of you on a personal level, even as we establish your excellence on a global one.
Our team is expert at the efficient, economical movement of cargo to foreign lands. We know the ins and outs of carrier selection, service requirements and the securing of competitive rates. We can help you secure the right kind of trade finance, whether that requires creative methods like the international import bank or a more conventional option. As an agent for Lloyd’s of London, the world’s largest marine cargo insurance provider, we can give you access to extremely competitive insurance rates. And whatever the documentation need you situation presents, we know how to put you in compliance.
For efficient intermodal transportation, ocean contracting and the full array of services to take your goods anywhere in the world, export with the experts of Supply Chain Solutions.
Import Services
Excellence in the import of goods begins long before the goods arrive – often with the consolidation of multiple vendors, the optimization of overseas warehouses and the management of container loads, among other challenges. It continues onshore, with warehousing and distribution challenges. You need a partner who has mastered the management of all these issues, and who has the global contacts to give you the benefit of the best people and organizations.
That partner is Supply Chain Solutions.
Our strength begins with our partnership with China International Freight, one of the world’s largest Non-Vessel Operating Common Carriers, with major contracts handling 200,000 containers each year. From overseas warehousing to a whole host of other value-added services, we combine with CIF to steer our import clients through the maze of ocean and airfreight activity to bring their goods safely and efficiently to the United States.
Once in port, our West Coast facility becomes the heartbeat of a wide range of activity designed to steer your goods efficiently to market. Supply Chain Solutions helps you ensure optimal shipment visibility, proximity to your markets, Warehouse Management Services and Transportation Management Services.
Bring your goods ashore with the expertise of the world’s most formidable import partners. Get them to your market with the best logistics minds in the business – the ones at Supply Chain Solutions.
TMS
Many companies struggle with cost efficiencies in the area of transportation management. How many shipments are loaded onto a truck that is sent off more than 50 percent empty, simply because the shipment needs to be made?
Transportation Management Services from Supply Chain Solutions improves your supply chain performance by designing a process that optimizes transportation activity, including modes, routes, rates, service negotiation and contract management. Our multi-modal procurement processes allow you to handle domestic and international transportation challenges efficiently and cost-effectively.
Our experience and industry contacts allow us to identify shipping consolidation opportunities, select the best routes and carriers and aggregate orders into loads so your shipping process is managed effectively. Our customized and scaleable web-based information systems let us track your materials in transit and confirm delivery. We also assure correct payment of freight bills and provide a single audited invoice.
Make transportation management a source of cost-saving and profit, rather than a cost center. The right process and management makes it possible.
Customs House Brokerage
Efficiently bringing your goods halfway around the world, only to see them held up by customs issues, will never happen to clients of Supply Chain Solutions. Our customs house brokerage manages the entire customs process – from clearance and duty drawback to valuation and compliance.
In a continual effort to add capabilities, we have recently joined added the experienced customs brokerage professionals of R.J. McCracken & Sons – an established and successful firm that now combined with the overall capabilities of Supply Chain Solutions to provide customs expertise under the broad umbrella of the most complete logistics consultancy anywhere.
