Case studies

Looking for flexible capacity solutions and efficiencies, a global manufacturer of HVAC equipment implemented a strategy to improve its less-than-truckload program.

An organic produce grower optimized its transportation model with a network analysis and Schneider’s refrigerated dedicated service.

A materials science company optimized its supply chain and moved closer to its sustainability goals with Schneider’s Bulk Intermodal service offerings.

Find out how an API connection between Schneider and its transportation management system helped make it easier for one company to get freight quotes and find capacity.

An American manufacturer conducted a Supply Chain Assessment to identify areas of opportunity within their supply chain. The assessment identified that there was likely opportunity for cost savings within their transportation strategy. Schneider’s engineering team used a representative sample of the customer’s historical shipment data to conduct a transportation optimization study.

A manufacturer saved $400,000 in demurrage with custom multimodal shipping. We moved 46 containers off the port within 5 business days.

A fast-growing retail chain turned to Schneider to meet its needs for plentiful, reliable capacity.

Read how Schneider helped a manufacturer safely move its food and beverage shipments across the country.

A parcel-package delivery service needed additional freight capacity over the holidays. Power Only trucking provided a flexible, efficient solution.

A retailer specializing in imported home furnishings and décor realized that a loose delivery schedule was affecting its bottom line and decided to investigate how a Dedicated Intermodal dray solution could help it get products into stores earlier

Schneider Intermodal helped retool an automotive manufacturer’s cross-border transportation process to increase efficiency and cut costs of heavy haul shipments.

A medical supply company that makes PPE saw an increase in demand due to COVID-19. As part of the manufacturing process, materials and trailers are stored at a facility in Texas and are moved across the border into Mexico for manufacturing. The heightened need for PPE and expedited timeline stressed the supply chain and left the manufacturer unclear how to move forward efficiently.

Like most things in life, supply chains are easier to manage when they’re predictable. Of course, supply chain predictability is not always possible — and it certainly is not the reality for one packaging manufacturer, whose low-volume freight involves irregular, last-minute shipments and short lead times. Freight turnaround is fast and often coupled with high service requirements, such as special equipment to move loads.

A tire manufacturer was left scrambling when its carrier dropped its business. Schneider Transportation Management stepped in to keep the manufacturer’s inconsistent freight moving and optimize its supply chain.

Discover how a technology manufacturer found a theft prevention and detection solution to reduce lost revenue and improve customer satisfaction.

A supply chain analysis conducted by a team of Schneider experts optimized and improved business success for a national beverage company by creating logistics efficiencies.

When a retailer needed a new storage and shipping solution that guaranteed timely delivery of ordered items, Schneider coordinated a time-sensitive warehouse and fulfillment operation for its customer.

Flexible shipping model provides guaranteed capacity and reliability

From governmental regulations, port strikes, extreme weather events and more, network optimization models can provide the decision support needed to ensure agility (and possibly cost avoidance) when you need it most.

Retailer Outsources Distribution to Increase Warehouse Operations

Overcrowding causes inbound warehouse capacity issues

A sporting goods retailer faced the issue of having too many players on the field. The company needed to find a single-carrier solution that would save costs and grow with their expanding network.

One way to combat the unknowns and nuances of transportation is enlisting the help of a dedicated provider to ensure your bulk loads arrive on time

This polyacrylamides manufacturer lowered transportation costs and improved capacity, ensuring its water polymers make it to treatment facilities safely, quickly and efficiently.

Schneider revamped the manufacturer’s business processes, implement a new technology to drive efficiencies into multiple processes across the supply chain and reduce overall costs.

Strategic intermodal transportation onboarding process helped a pet food manufacturer obtain consistent freight capacity and delivery.

Learn how a tire manufacturer moved away from steamships to gain control over its freight & improve processes with a custom port logistics plan from Schneider.

Schneider created a flexible chemical transportation solution for an agrochemical supplier to ensure on-time deliveries of their farming products.

A building materials supplier needed help delivering large volume freight on flatbed trailers. Schneider stepped in to help keep the supplier’s products moving safely and efficiently to their destinations, creating a stable supply chain.

A global medical supply and equipment company was steadily expanding its nationwide footprint, which left it with a disjointed supply chain with efficiency gaps. While the company initially set out to make a singular change to its supply chain, it ultimately enacted a series of strategic, more comprehensive improvements to its import supply chain.

How Schneider’s customized solution, trusted network and experienced professionals reduced claims, managed seasonal product demand and saved a company millions.

When a food manufacturer was looking to optimize its freight transportation model, it turned to Schneider to provide a holistic multimodal transportation plan.

When a global medical company became the victim of a natural disaster, Schneider quickly shifted its focus to provide the corporation with a robust contingency plan. Read case study now.

Schneider Supply Chain Management® created a custom outbound solution to optimize shipments for a janitorial product manufacturer experienced growing pains. Learn more.

Learn how Schneider Dedicated helped a bakery boost capacity, improve visibility and streamline its shipping operations.

Schneider deployed a multimodal solution using both intermodal and truckload services to address a brewer’s capacity concerns.

An organic grocery retailer with locations nationwide needed a shipper that could match its reach and volume.

Rapidly growing retailer gains cost savings and efficiency with lightweight equipment solution

Schneider expertly managed freight and conducted ongoing analysis to create nonstop, truck-like cross-border intermodal service to keep product moving while uncovering time and cost efficiencies.

A major electronics manufacturer needs high-security and on-time delivery for their new product releases and other time-sensitive projects. Schneider put together a staging solution to reduce the number of loads for a consumer electronic product launch, all while maintaining top-notch security practices.

Schneider Bulk satisfies chemical company's hunger for flexible dependable capacity

Schneider’s intermodal solution included communication to anticipate potential issues and ensure 100 percent on-time delivery.

Schneider delivered a plan that shifted freight from an LTL to a multi-stop, truckload solution and rang up cost savings and efficiency along the way.

Schneider’s portfolio of services, flexible capacity and lightweight equipment made this three-pronged approach a one-stop-shop solution.

Schneider’s forward staging solution for a water polymer supplier enabled delivery of four times as much volume. Learn more in our case study.

Schneider provided the certified drivers and tractors to pull 100 loads per month with 97% on-time delivery.

A major provider of greeting cards landed a game-changing business deal, placing its products within thousands of locations of a major American variety store chain. The company had a short, 12-week window to move 500 loads of greeting cards to nearly 40 different warehouses throughout the nation.

How Schneider optimized a retailer’s network to meet deliverables at market-driven pricing by balancing service, cost and capacity

Enhance business stability and safety with a dedicated Bulk operation

A leading provider of holiday food gifts used multiple carriers for its supply chain, creating an inefficient, disjointed approach. As Schneider began working on the shipper’s business, it uncovered several opportunities for improvement.

Schneider’s custom Bulk Intermodal solution and attention to detail helped increase cost savings and on-time delivery service for a large supplier of cruise ship gear oil.

A manufacturer of dessert and drink mixes was growing and realized its private fleet was expensive to maintain and was scalable for future growth. How did they decrease shipping time AND save an average of $1,000/week in shipping costs?

A manufacturer of liquid and gas tanks that ships its products to customers throughout the country using multiple LTL carriers began experiencing significant rate increases. The company needed to find a new shipping solution that would save costs.

Lightweight equipment solution helps beverage company save costs, load 10 percent more product per truck.

Schneider provides great Van Truckload service for the water distributor, the distributer reached out to the transportation provider about a Bulk shipment solution.

The relationship between a retailer and a shipper of medical devices, pharmaceutical and consumer packaged goods was put in jeopardy when the retailer rolled out a pilot program that shrank the shipper’s delivery window from 72 hours to 24 hours

How Schneider helped a leading value chain retailer overcome unpredictable delays moving freight from California to Canada

When Schneider implemented a DC bypass solution, a growing retailer’s supply chain pain was relieved.

When a major cellular phone manufacturer needed 20 loads of phones-- valued at $3-6 million each load-- delivered on a precise timetable, it turned to Schneider for secure storage, staging and delivery. Their high-value phones were also needed time-sensitive delivery since they are part of a new phone launch.

When a pharmaceutical company was left without a carrier, the shipper knew it needed to find a new carrier that had the cargo security and know-how to get high-value loads safely and securely to their destination.

Schneider stepped in with an engineering strategy to help drive supply chain and logistics efficiencies, along with better control, to deliver on their cost-savings plan.

A national hardware company switches third-party logistics providers to drive continuous improvement in its supply chain.

By implementing Schneider’s PO Management Tool, the E&P company realized significant savings, improved their compliance with safety standards and managed their supply chain more easily and effectively.

One of nation's largest consumer snack food brands needs a dedicated transportation provider to meet "must arrive by" dates. Schneider pitched a solution resulting in no late delivery fines during the first year on the job.

A retailer needed to work with a provider who could deliver a seamless experience utilizing both asset and non-asset capacity without affecting any of its existing capacity commitments.

Retailer realized its existing supply chain process was in need of an overhaul because it was routinely accruing incremental costs when processing its ocean containers.

Inefficiencies were everywhere — until Schneider SCM stepped into salvage transportation and inventory management within five major trade channels.

Getting merchandise out of inventory and onto store shelves is crucial to any business operation. However, when it comes to the movement of high-value freight like cell phones, video games, and other consumer electronics it’s often easier said than done. Read how this consumer electronics manufacturer kept their trailers of new-model cell phones safe from thieves in this real-life business case study.

A utility vehicle (UTV) is the ultimate off-road machine, capturing the attention of people who want to inject excitement into their days as well as wield a powerhouse on the jobsite. That means investing in a powerful, unblemished vehicle that’s ready to ride right off a dealership’s showroom floor. Transporting UTVs is a complex process, and if a provider isn’t careful, damage is accrued in transit and/or during delivery — a problem for both dealers and manufacturers.

Schneider has a long-standing relationship with the retailer, which began with Van Truckload. The business has also grown to include Dedicated, Intermodal, Cross-Dock and Brokerage. Schneider provides consistent capacity solutions, especially during the retailer’s busiest time of year – spring – when capacity commitments increase by 50 percent or more.

Schneider’s supply chain engineers were able to identify optimization opportunities to improve inventory and service levels.

Schneider identified three core components necessary for a successful freight move out of the port: a drayage carrier, transloader and flatbed delivery.

For many years, the vast majority of imported freight sold by one of the largest retailers in the U.S. hit American shores at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. When congestion began to worsen at those ports, it impacted the flow of goods to the retailer’s regional distribution centers – and thereby, its stores – in the interior of the U.S. Read more about how Schneider's quick response yielded a successful, pain-free port diversification.

Schneider is now providing port dray capacity. They helped a discount retailer move a backlog of freight and saved them daily demurrage fees.

Switching to Schneider’s asset-based multimodal service allowed a national retail chain to reduce cost and inconsistent transit times while improving communication.

A leading warehouse membership club needed to stabilize freight costs, support seasonal surges and meet a goal of 98% on-time delivery.

Schneider customized a plan to fit the customer’s transportation budget while meeting the challenges of seasonal capacity needs.

Specific to its building materials and solutions business unit, one of the largest manufacturers and shippers in North America sought to create a fully integrated transportation model built around a common set of consistent, measurable and actionable processes to drive efficiency within its supply chain. The manufacturer’s vision was to establish an order-to-delivery solution to improve distribution and job-site coordination. The company also strove to meet or exceed delivery requirements and keep up with seasonal demand.

Schneider Supply Chain Management created a cost-efficient, next-day order-to-delivery service.

2010-2021 California Air Resources Board (CARB) truck/trailer regulation plan

Schneider’s team of supply chain management experts quickly teamed with the company to develop an ideal model, reducing complexity and cost and achieving HSSE compliance.

Schneider optimized all cross-border moves with a leading appliance manufacturer by reducing costs on every transfer load and eliminating a costly diversion process.

Manufacturer looks to safely transport and dispose of wastewater

Viracon’s flawless conversion from private fleet to dedicated provider

Capacity Stacking uses the full range of Schneider’s service offerings to create one tailored solution that is seamless, effortless and provides one point of contact – making multimodal transportation easy and effective. These three examples showcase how shippers are experiencing significant advantages to their bottom line by adding Capacity Stacking to their transportation strategy.

The specialized nature of logging results in owner-operators transporting most of the freight. Finding reliable and consistent capacity can be difficult, making the need for a dedicated transportation solution that provides consistent capacity and safe, reliable, professional drivers a must-have.

A provider was looking for a safer and more efficient method of transporting hazardous material for its paper manufacturing customer. They reduced operational costs and increased shipping efficiency.