Use these freight transportation resources to measure a shipment, compare offers, prepare a handoff and review its records. The library brings together practical calculators, worked examples and reusable planning tables from WTM Logistics.
Explore MoreFreight utilization expresses used capacity as a proportion of a defined available capacity. Weight, floor space and cube are different measures, so they can produce different percentages for the same load. None alone proves that more freight can safely be added.
Explore MoreFreight statistics answer different questions depending on whether they measure weight, distance-weighted activity, shipments, revenue or another quantity. A percentage of tonnes is not interchangeable with a percentage of revenue. Before reusing a statistic, identify its population, geography, period and unit.
Explore MoreA freight carbon calculation needs a defined transport boundary, activity data and an appropriate emissions method or factor. Tonne-kilometres measure transport activity; they are not emissions by themselves. Multiplying activity by an intensity factor produces an estimate only within that factor’s stated scope.
Explore MoreWhen only part of an order is urgent, compare moving the critical items separately with expediting the entire load. The split must still leave the receiver with usable goods and a clear plan for the remainder. A small fast shipment is not useful if it arrives without the component needed to use it.
Explore MoreConsolidation combines suitable freight into a transport movement; multi-stop distribution serves several receiving points on a planned route. One operation can use both, but they answer different questions: what travels together, and where it must be delivered.
Explore MoreCompare freight companies by giving them the same shipment requirements and asking how they will meet them. A request for quotation, or RFQ, should define the goods, lanes, timing, receiving conditions and records your business needs before asking for a price.
Explore MoreA freight carrier scorecard should connect every measure to a defined shipment population and retrievable evidence. Track the service your business actually purchased, and keep different service types separate when their commitments are not comparable.
Explore MoreTransit time measures an agreed transport interval, lead time measures a wider interval defined by the business, and ETA is an estimated arrival time. The terms become useful only when their start and end events are stated.
Explore MoreOTIF means on time and in full. In this worksheet, it is the percentage of eligible shipments that meet both the agreed delivery-time rule and the complete-quantity rule. Define those rules before calculating the percentage; a number without its denominator and conditions is difficult to compare.
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