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Introducing Aptitude4 Inc.

Aptitude4 a company that understands your supply chain, especially in today's economic environment. We provide solutions to solve challenges and improve your bottom line. Our consulting team members have many years of experience with the core competency and knowledge to help with supply chain strategy, leadership, process improvement and cost reduction. We are a solution provider with excellent project management skills that can help your company's competitive advantage.
   
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Mid to Long Range Strategic Planning, Operations & Capital Budget Development
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Inbound Supply Chain Process & Cost Savings Analysis
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Transportation Management
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Freight Audit
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Transportation Management Software Specification, Selection & Installation
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Distribution Centre Operations Productivity Assessments
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Mid to Long Range Strategic Planning, Operations & Capital Budget Development

Supply Chains play an integral part of a company's mid & long range strategy. Aptitude4 begins the process by analyizing your current operations. Using your historical data we create a cost analysis of your current Supply Chain. We then determine if your current Supply Chain operations are on course to achieving your company's Strategic Planning. The next step in the planning process is to perform a number of what-if scenarios using your historical analyis to create a plan/solution(s) for your company to achieve their Strategic Goals. The result will be an Operational & Capital Budget & a Mid to Long Range Strategic Plan.
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Inbound Supply Chain Process & Cost Savings Analysis

Have you ever wondered what makes up the total that is displayed in your General Ledger Freight/Transportation Account? Aptitude4 will analyize your existing Inbound Supply Chain using your historical data to create a detail report of what is happening today. A carrier performance report is generated using standard market rates to create a basis for you to rate shop. Secondly, Aptitude4 we generate a report to show you how cost savings can be generated through transportation optimization. Transportation optimization is achieved by altering your purchasing/delivery cycles, vendor order consolidation, & improved transportation lanes to name a few.
Have you ever wondered what percentage of the line item charge is covering the prepaid freight cost from your vendors? Aptitude4 will analyize your existing Inbound Supply Chain using your historical data & standard market rates to estimate the prepaid freight costs that are included in your line item costs. Next we will reorganize your inbound freight using a variety of Transportation Optimization methods to create an estimate of the collect freight cost to you. The difference between the estimated vendor prepaid freight cost & the your estimated collect freight cost is the potential savings from doing an "Inbound Freight Program". For a detailed description of an "Inbound Freight Program" please click on the link to read our featured article.
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Transportation Management

Aptitude4 Inc. provides a full suite of transportation management consulting services. Our services help companies optimize their transportation activities assets and resources. We support companies with the movement of goods through all modes of transportation helping them use the most efficient and cost effective method to move shipments using Ocean, Air, Rail, Full Truckload, Less-than-Truckload, Small Package and Private Fleet.
Our solutions include managing the transportation information process including cost effective carrier selection, tracking and routing through EDI.
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Freight Audit

All freight payable files contain overcharges and overpayments.
It is vital in today's economy to be sure you are retaining every possible dollar. Despite the increased role of technology in freight management (and sometimes because of it) carrier overbillings and client overpayments are still very much a fact of life.
The outside audit of paid freight invoices by an experienced freight bill auditor is simply good practice for shippers and receivers, large and small, including those with in-house Transportation or Logistics Departments.
The Post Audit step has become quarterly, or every six months, because of mid-1990's changes to many carriers' tariff rules and/or government regulations that reduced the window for recovering over-billings to only six months, from the historic three years.
There is no up-front cost to you. Our fee is simply 50% of the monies recovered and returned to you. There are no other fees or obligations whatsoever.
Post Audit is simple and easy. You provide us the last three or six months freight payables files and copies of your carrier quotations and we do the rest:
  • A letter of non-disclosure will be provided to protect your sensitive information.
  • We scrutinize your files and identify the overcharges and overpayments and issue Overcharge Claims to the carriers, describing and documenting the refunds claimed.
  • We follow-up with the carriers until the refunds are in our hands. Our Overcharge Claims request that refund cheques be issued payable to you, in order to ensure the security of your refunds.
  • We forward the carriers' refund cheques to you attached to our invoices for 50% of the value of the refunds recovered.
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Transportation Management Software Specification, Selection & Installation

Have you got the Transportion Blues? Are you considering implementing a Transportation Management Software (TMS) Package? Aptitude4 can help. Prior to the selection of a TMS system, Aptitude4 can provide you with the information needed to make an educted descision. The first step in the process is to determine your historical data accuracy which includes your article master & analyize your current inbound and/or outbound freight moves. After determining your current freight moves an analysis is prepared with the needs & benefits that would be achieved by using a TMS system. Based on the needs, Aptitude4 will evaluate a variety of TMS packages that best fit for functionality & budget. Finally, Aptitude4 will participate in the installation & implementation, ensuring that the TMS will integrate with your customers, vendors & your existing systems.
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Distribution Centre Operations Productivity Assessments

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Ontario Division
210 Main Street, P.O. Box 159
Erin, ON N0B 1T0
Telephone: (519) 833-0820
 
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18 Quarry Point Road
Hudson, QC J0P 1H0
Telephone: (514) 213-5321
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