Category: Case Study

Upgrading Tank Truck Lanes to CLX Intermodal Transportation Solutions

CLX Logistics was sought by a Fortune 10 multinational oil and gas provider to improve trucking lane efficiency in the US Gulf Coast region, with the potential to expand. The Client was interested in introducing intermodal transportation solutions into their operation.

Intermodal transportation is a full-service alternative to existing tank truck operations that can reduce costs and improve operational efficiency on appropriate length routes, using standard bulk shipping containers (aka ISO containers, cargo containers, or intermodal shipping containers).

The planning and agreement process took several months to ensure all details were fully addressed. CLX worked with the Client to fully understand their needs and provide several flexible pricing models and options with complete transparency.

Client Challenges

The Client was experiencing increased shipping volumes that showed no signs of slowing. They were maxing out their trucking capacity and faced skyrocketing operating costs. The Client requested that CLX Logistics review transportation lanes currently used by tanker trucks to see if intermodal transportation solutions could enhance and optimize operations.

CLX analyzed the shipping lanes and identified individual lanes where intermodal transportation routes would have the most impact, increasing capacity and reducing costs.

The CLX Logistics Solution

  • Increased Performance: Intermodal transportation services achieve significant performance increases in shipments over 1,000 miles and reach peak efficiency at 2,000+ miles. The transportation ranges needed by the Client were ideal for introducing intermodal solutions and would have a significant positive impact on, efficiency, capacity, and costs.
  • Conforming to all Regulations: Their involvement in the oil and gas industry includes a unique set of health and environmental compliance standards and regulations which would be met, as well as their own standards, to which we would fully conform.
  • A Seamless Transition: The Client’s stakeholders received complete support from CLX that we would provide a smooth, effective transition to intermodal transportation.
  • Continuous Improvement: By maximizing our ISO tank capacity and improved lanes, the Client has freed up and redirected their current tank trucks to shorter, non-intermodal shipping lanes. Capacity is no longer in a dire state, and organic growth is flourishing. We continue to see rapidly increasing volumes from the Client and continue to work with them to find additional models for other locations and support continued growth.

 

Results to Date

In this case study, CLX began providing intermodal transportation solutions to their Client in spring 2019 with one shipping point and has expanded to 12 by February 2020. A small number of lanes was trialed early in the program, and CLX made on-site visits to all loading and unloading plants to monitor operations and ensure the process was followed to plan. We worked with the Client and their own customers to walk them through loading and unloading ISOs and provided internal benchmarking.

Since the introduction of intermodal transportation, the Client is saving 20% to 30% on each lane as compared to their old tanker truck services. The Client has gone from having no relationship to CLX Logistics to becoming one of our largest domestic clients in less than a year.

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About CLX Logistics, LLC

CLX Logistics, LLC is a global provider of comprehensive logistics management, technology and supply chain consulting services to a broad base of industry verticals. The global company, with offices in North America and Europe, is dedicated to solving its customers’ most vital logistics challenges by leveraging a broad range of industry expertise, best-of-breed technology and a personalized, high-touch approach to deliver measurable, sustainable value.

 

Optimizing Chemical Logistics in Extreme Environments

The client, a Fortune-500 chemical manufacturer (the Company), is a world-leading producer and distributor of chemical products. The Company manufactures and supplies chemicals for various industries, including architecture, textiles, automotive, rubber products, and food processing.

Client Challenges

The Company needed to transport chemicals for an oil and gas customer from the US Gulf Coast to a remote region in Canada. The chemical required a forward storage solution so it could be delivered on-demand to end-users in the region. This remote region is subject to extreme cold and lacks traditional infrastructure. Facing these strategic challenges, the Company sought out CLX Logistics for expert help.

The CLX Logistics Solution

The Company immediately began developing a six-month planning process with regular meetings to implement a new product, the BulkTainer™ ISO tank, and a new shipping lane. The Company worked directly with the shipper, consignee, and vendors to establish a shipping process using BulkTainer™ ISO tank.

Results to Date

CLX Logistics provided comprehensive, cost-effective intermodal solutions that delivered significant savings compared to over-the-road truck tanks. A capable storage solution was developed in a remote region with a harsh climate, and all project challenges were handled through a single point of contact. Following months of continuous service, the Company is preparing to increase volumes to meet demands. The Company is also interested in deploying the Bulktainer ISO for use in other remote oil-producing regions.

  • Saved 20% on freight costs compared to tank trailers
  • Saved 130% on storage costs compared to tank trailers
  • Enabled 20,000 gallons of convenient forward storage

About CLX Logistics, LLC

CLX Logistics is the world-leading chemical 4PL. A seasoned provider of global transportation management, technology, and supply chain consulting services, CLX delivers economic value across your entire supply chain to accelerate success for you and your customers. Download this case study to learn more!

Adhering to Modern Shipping Demands with CLX TMS

A U.S.-based global manufacturer of industrial chemical adhesives needed a technology solution to support a major revision in their approach to managing transportation. This shipper has a complex transportation network, leveraging road transport through truckload, bulk truck, and less-than-truckload (LTL) shipping methods.

Client Challenges

Before engaging with CLX, transportation activities for this shipper were concentrated with a small group of carriers and 3PL’s. Transportation processes were planned and executed on a largely manual basis with limited standardization, visibility, or control across business units and shipping locations. Lack of supporting technology resulted in inefficient processes and limited ability to optimize, control, track and manage transportation costs, in addition to limited visibility to on-time pickup and delivery performance .

The CLX Logistics Solution

The company chose to implement CLX’s Transportation Management System (TMS), powered by e2open, to modernize its shipping practices. With the implementation of CLX TMS, our client can:

  1. Standardize and automate freight planning and execution processes
  2. Establish direct and more effective relationships with their carriers
  3. Automate auditing and settling of freight invoices
  4. Optimize the consolidation of small orders into more efficient shipments
  5. Enable management visibility of freight costs and on-time performance
  6. Identify and target opportunities for cost and service improvements

Results to Date

After one year of utilizing CLX TMS, this business saved $1.5 million, thanks to improvements in:

  • Mode selection and optimization
  • Leveraging the TMS carrier network
  • Direct carrier relationships
  • Adherence to routing guides
  • Load consolidations
  • KPI tracking and analytics
  • Freight bill audit and payment
  • Pickup and delivery service tracking

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About CLX Logistics, LLC

CLX Logistics is the world-leading chemical 4PL. A seasoned provider of global transportation management, technology, and supply chain consulting services, CLX delivers economic value across your entire supply chain to accelerate success for you and your customers.

Optimizing Chemical Transportation Logistics

Our client (the Company), is an industry-leading, vertically integrated producer of titanium dioxide and inorganic chemicals, with nearly 7,000 employees on six continents. The Company mines and processes titanium ore, zircon, and other materials to create specialty-grade pigments commonly used in coatings and plastics. The Company’s chemical pigment products are manufactured in Mississippi and shipped to customers in the northeast for their own manufacturing needs. The chemicals are transported by rail to transload locations and then delivered directly to customers via tanker trucks.

The Client Challenges

Cohesive Transportation Optimization

The Company sought to optimize deliveries from its transload locations to customers in PA, NJ, NY, and MD. The Company wished to identify areas of opportunity, simplify processes, and reduce operational costs among the many smaller deliveries leaving the transload locations.

The CLX Logistics Solution

CLX Logistics immediately began work assisting with booking, scheduling, and managing bulk tanker transportation operations for the Company’s numerous short hauls in the northeast. CLX Logistics received updated delivery schedules each week from the Company based on their customers’ needs, handled requests and changes, and assisted with any challenges.

  1. Booked Loading Appointments
  2. Designated Individual Loading Sites
  3. Booked Trucking Carriers for Each Shipment
  4. Provided Prompt, 24/7 Customer Support

Results to Date

CLX Logistics provided comprehensive analysis, management, and optimization with an average weekly volume of 6 to 9 shipments for approximately six months and continues to provide ongoing services at a reduced volume. Within just six months, CLX Logistics assisted the Company with the complete optimization and successful delivery of 170 shipments to their customers throughout the northeast

About CLX Logistics, LLC

CLX Logistics is the world leader in chemical supply chain solutions. A seasoned provider of global transportation management, technology, and supply chain consulting services, CLX Logistics delivers economic value to your entire supply chain and accelerates success for both you and your customers. Download this case study!

Improving On-Time Deliveries with CLX LaneLogix

The demand for faster, more efficient, and streamlined chemical transportation solutions are always growing and evolving. It’s vital for chemical manufacturers to have access to the right data to contextualize their operation in comparison with the rest of the market and facilitate on-time deliveries (OTD). Recently, CLX Logistics assisted two of the top-10 biggest chemical firms with separate requests to improve their OTDs.

Why Are OTDs So Important?

  • Outperform the market to gain a competitive advantage
  • Establish more trustworthy relationships with clients
  • Achieve continuous transportation operations improvement

Client Challenges

CLIENT 1: One chemical company wanted to understand and report exactly why their OTDs had decreased over the past year. They needed to analyze market conditions, internal processes, and any underlying causes in order to make improvements. Their needs boiled down to identifying and anticipating chemical shipping best practices for their region.

CLIENT 2: Another chemical company wanted to get a clear idea of how their OTDs were performing, and if reason-code use of their carriers conformed with the market. Additionally, they were interested in how their network compared to the market with regard to shipping distances, weights, equipment utilization, and spot market use.

The CLX Logistics Solution

As a neutral outside party, CLX Logistics used our CLX LaneLogix platform to analyze how each carrier performed compared to other chemical companies in the region. We looked at the specific underperforming areas and obtained a complete understanding of their exact causes, such as market developments, operational inefficiencies, and more. CLX LaneLogix enables us to:

  • Provide a better context for transportation operations
  • Increase the value of your transportation spend faster than ever before
  • Reduce IT involvement in your data analysis processes
  • Reduce costs and complexity of combining and managing disparate systems
  • Gain actionable supply chain visibility across your organization
  • Optimize performance based on data-driven recommendations

Results to Date

CLIENT 1: CLX Logistics found that this chemical manufacturer’s transportation network was underperforming in over half of their market over hundreds of thousands of shipments per year. We strategically set new targets for OTDs based on CLX LaneLogix market data and developed a complete set of processes and best practices to meet the goals.

CLIENT 2: CLX Logistics worked with this chemical manufacturer to fully understand their internal best practices and ensure consistency across every aspect of their transportation network. CLX LaneLogix helped us understand and compare their competitors’ networks and enabled us to implement new strategies to continuously measure and understand their operations and make smart decisions

About CLX Logistics, LLC

CLX Logistics is the world leader in chemical 4PL and supply chain solutions. A seasoned provider of global transportation management, technology, and supply chain consulting services, CLX Logistics delivers economic value to your entire supply chain and accelerates success for both you and your customers. Download this case study!

Upgrading a Chemical Supply Chain the Right Way

One of our clients, and its predecessors, has been producing titanium dioxide (TiO2 ) pigments since 1916. TiO2 , commonly referred to as titanium white, is an inorganic compound pigment used to manufacture hundreds of products, from paper to toothpaste, sunscreen to cosmetics, and most other everyday white-pigmented product. The TiO2 is manufactured in the southern US and shipped to customers in the northeast; transported by rail to transload locations and delivered directly to customers via tanker trucks

Client Challenges

Our clients’ main struggle was the lack of rail relationships and representation. Without proper representation, an established network of carriers, and experience negotiating with carriers, they couldn’t begin to address their other issues, including unclear rail volume forecasting, subpar routing analytics, routing and interchange optimizations, and Rule 11 implementation.

The CLX Logistics Solution

CLX Logistics got straight to work fostering two-way, open communication with weekly cadence calls to work through various challenges to implement clear, effective solutions.

  1. Identified savings with internal benchmarking and performance tools
  2. Established market position
  3. Led renewal and rate negotiations
  4. Secured multi-year agreements
  5. Analyzed modal conversion metrics
  6. Initiated special rail design and setup project
  7. Established routing options and rail mileage utilization
  8. Measured transit variability and carrier performance

Results to Date

Thanks to CLX Logistics, their client established strong relationships with Class-1 rail carriers and is on track to save approximately twelve percent of their baseline spend. Together, CLX helped optimize their routing and sourcing locations to reduce rail transportation spend and complexity and leveraged highly accurate shipping forecasts to secure multi-year carrier agreements. Leveraging CLX’s rail operations experience, this company continues to identify areas of opportunity for continuous improvement and has the expertise, tools, and technologies at its disposal to succeed.

Download this case study to learn how CLX Logistics deployed advanced benchmarking and performance tools to secure multi-year carrier agreements and reduce their baseline cost savings by twelve percent.

About CLX Logistics, LLC

CLX Logistics is the world leader in chemical supply chain solutions. A seasoned provider of global transportation management, technology, and supply chain consulting services, CLX Logistics delivers economic value to your entire supply chain and accelerates success for both you and your customers.

Large U.S. Chemical Shipper Optimizes Operations with CLX LaneLogix

A U.S.-based global manufacturer of industrial chemical adhesives needed a technology solution to support a major revision in their approach to managing transportation. This shipper has a complex transportation network, leveraging road transport through truckload, bulk truck, and less-than-truckload (LTL) shipping methods.

Client Challenges

This large chemical shipper needed to understand how their dry van truckload transportation costs compared to other chemical shippers in a shifting truckload freight market. They were also seeking a platform to help manage a transportation procurement event that would allow them to optimize their spending through rapid industry shifts and challenges.

The CLX Logistics Solution

The chemical shipper implemented CLX’s LaneLogix to optimize their operations, starting with a rate benchmark on their U.S. dry van truckload lanes. An initial coverage report showed that CLX LaneLogix could provide statistically significant results for 99% of the client’s lanes in scope. Both CLX’s procurement department and the shipper then reviewed these results.

Using CLX LaneLogix benchmarking, the chemical shipper’s truckload dry van spend was 24% above the market average. With this information and an understanding of the volatile truckload market, CLX conducted a truckload bid with quarterly contract rate reviews. The first quarter bid event resulted in 20% projected savings over the baseline, the second resulted in 30% projected savings, and the third resulted in 29% savings. The fourth quarter bid event is currently in progress.

For each of these bid events the shipper was able to:

  1. Standardize and automate freight planning and execution processes
  2. Establish direct and more effective relationships with their carriers
  3. Automate auditing and settling of freight invoices
  4. Optimize the consolidation of small orders into more efficient shipments
  5. Enable management visibility of freight costs and on-time performance
  6. Identify and target opportunities for cost and service improvements

 

Results to Date

After utilizing CLX LaneLogix, the shipper’s projected 12-month cost savings closely matched the 24% savings identified in the benchmark study.

About CLX Logistics, LLC

CLX Logistics is the world-leading chemical 4PL. A seasoned provider of global transportation management, technology, and supply chain consulting services, CLX delivers economic value across your entire supply chain to accelerate success for you and your customers. Download this monumental case study today!

Achieving Chemical Supply Chain Optimization with CLX LaneLogix

Chemical manufacturers and their transportation and supply chain partners are under constant pressure to reduce spending and increase margins. Our client (the Company), is a large Dutch chemical company with over 100 million in annual transport expenditure over multiple modes and covering European FTL, LTL packed and liquid, and dry bulk shipments. The Company has large chemical locations and operations throughout Europe, and sought to compare their transportation rates with those of their competitors in an effort to make optimizations.

Client Challenges

The Company needed to better understand their rates in comparison with the market on a granular level with regards to specific lanes, equipment types, and special requirements. They also recognized the need to look beyond their own data, and wished for experienced input on their procurement strategy. Finally, they wanted to understand the conformity of rate hikes they were observing among their carriers at the time.

The CLX Logistics Solution

CLX Logistics implemented CLX LaneLogix to increase supply chain visibility and enable faster, more optimized bidding, benchmarking, and procurement solutions. CLX LaneLogix allowed CLX to quickly gather actionable insights into the Company’s contracts compared to the market, even for completed projects. With easy integration into the Company’s existing systems and data sources, CLX LaneLogix enabled the Company to analyze, optimize, and adapt their chemical supply chain fast and effectively with a full suite of advanced capabilities, including:

Planning and Preparation

  • Evaluate carriers
  • Validate and analyze data
  • Determine bidding strategies
  • Create a request for proposal (RFP)
  • Set up a bid-hosting environment

Rate Benchmarking

  • Develop clearer contract terms
  • Easily identify contract validity
  • Manage special requirements
  • Make data-driven tender negotiations
  • Drive better procurement strategies

Procurement & Bid Management

  • World-class logistics support
  • State-of-the-art bidding tools
  • Best-in-class supply chain data
  • More competitive bidding environments
  • Greater savings achieved faster

Results to Date

CLX LaneLogix identified 9 million Euros in potential savings for the Company. The Company was able to identify savings without spending extra time and money going to market, and could intelligently reallocate resources to more productive avenues. They also no longer had to perform full tenders, as CLX LaneLogix easily filters out any carriers that don’t provide competitive rates.

  • Increased the value of transportation spend faster
  • Reduced IT involvement in data analysis processes
  • Reduced costs and complexity in combining and managing disparate systems
  • Provided actionable supply chain visibility for all modes across the global network
  • Optimized performance based on data-driven recommendations
  • Reduced risk and enabled enhanced decision-making

About CLX Logistics, LLC

CLX Logistics is the world leader in chemical 4PL and supply chain solutions. A seasoned provider of global transportation management, technology, and supply chain consulting services, CLX Logistics delivers economic value to your entire supply chain and accelerates success for both you and your customers. Download this case study!

Journey Towards Continuous Improvement: Chemical Logistics

In the US, CLX Logistics and a global chemistry company with leading market positions (the Company) have been working together to implement continuous transportation improvement projects— and that program is now expanding to the Company’s European group. In this Case Study, we’re discussing the successes of the partnership and the tools and methodology that will fuel continued success in Europe and other regions.

With more than 100 million dollars in annual logistics spend across all modes and an urge to remain innovative, the Company recognizes that there’s always room for improvement in logistics efficiency. The Company found a strategic partner in CLX Logistics, and together, the companies have focused on increasing efficiencies, cutting spend, and improving transportation performance.

The Company’s 2020 Challenges

Global political environment

How and when should the global political environment and foreign policy influence the preferred location of materials produced? How does this impact the Company’s competitive edge or the way they reach customers on a worldwide scale?

Investment in finished goods inventory and raw materials

How much working capital should be invested in inventory to provide the right amount of flexibility in the supply chain? Should raw materials be produced domestically or imported?

Transportation strategy

As the Company competes in both the commodity and specialty goods markets, how do they leverage the investment in talent and experience to meet the needs of their customers in different transportation markets in different regions of the world?

Keeping and improving a competitive advantage in transportation

Transportation adds no value to products but can be a differentiator in the eyes of the customer. What best practices in transportation across regions ensure that customers continue to enjoy and recognize the delivery of goods as a core competency of the Company?

The CLX Logistics Solution

Greater Visibility

CLX Logistics has one of the largest transportation databases in the industry and is continuously working with the Company to enhance transportation transparency and supply chain visibility. CLX Logistics has provided the Company with greater visibility by providing interactive transportation dashboards for both its Executive and Operation teams.

The global chemistry Company also has access to the CLX Logistics’ Gravity platform. This application significantly improves transportation visibility by combining data from multiple systems within the business with data already available through the BluJay TMS. This application provides a holistic view while simultaneously allowing CLX Logistics to analyze information in a whole new way. As an example, CLX Logistics can integrate customer ABC-segmentation to drive differentiated transportation performance by customer segment. Another example is bringing visibility into transportation spend and performance from disparate systems across the organization.

Performance Targets

CLX Logistics is helping the Company set transportation performance targets that align with their business strategy, which can then be integrated into the interactive dashboards. This service further enhances their ability to identify and prioritize transportation spend and efficiency opportunities.

Continuous Improvement

Continuous improvement in transportation is a journey. CLX Logistics works with many chemical shippers on similar transportation optimization projects. These partnerships allow for a dependable mix of cross-industry experience in analytics and project implementation expertise that’s often difficult to find among 3PL partners.

Analyzing Data

Getting value from raw data can be time-consuming. Often, shippers spend much more time preparing data than they spend on the analysis. Using CLX Logistics’ unique combination of supply chain talent and robust data warehousing and mining techniques, clients spend much more time analyzing rather than gathering and cleansing data.

Results to Date

  1. Consolidating Shipments: For customers that place multiple orders to ship on the same day, CLX Logistics consolidates orders to a single truck, reducing carbon footprint, transportation spend, and complexity for both the Company and the carrier.
  2. Optimizing and Improving Consolidations: This project further expands the Shipment Consolidation program to new ship sites and extends cutoff times for customers with unpredictable, yet high order frequency patterns.
  3. Implementing Dock Scheduling: Through implementing dock scheduling in the TMS, the Company improves can improve scheduling and loading efficiency, and thus reduces carrier detention charges.
  4. Improving Payload: CLX Logistics analysts and the Company leveraged opportunities to optimize truckload shipment weights. This decreased both the cost and CO2 emissions per pound of product shipped.

About CLX Logistics, LLC

CLX Logistics, LLC is a global provider of comprehensive logistics management, technology and supply chain consulting services for a broad base of industry verticals. The global company, with offices in North America and Europe, is dedicated to solving its customers’ most vital logistics challenges by leveraging a broad range of industry expertise, best-of-breed technology and a personalized, high-touch approach to deliver measurable, sustainable value. Download this case study!

Answering Common Chemical Rail Transportation Services Questions

Almost every industry has been affected by supply chain issues in recent times. With causes ranging from oversized ships clogging major maritime ports to the unprecedented influx of vessels waiting to be unloaded around the world, there are many factors affecting these recent supply chain strains.

However, there are different options for shipping in today’s modern world that can alleviate or solve supply chain shortages for many companies. While most individuals and supply chain managers may think of air or maritime shipping as the most effective and efficient transportation methods, another competitor may be just as, if not more effective and practical.

While not as flashy as its challengers, rail transportation services are a tried-and-true tactic that has been around since the birth of industry itself and still holds its own as a reliable, predictable, cost-friendly, and attractive shipping option for many companies and industries, especially chemical manufacturing.

We’ll be discussing how railway logistics can help solve the needs of the chemical transportation industry by reviewing our case study where we helped improve the transportation of chemicals from the southern part of the US to the Northeast.

Read the full case study, Big Fish in a Bigger Pond: Upgrading a Chemical Supply Chain the Right Way, here:

 

Is Rail Shipping Becoming Obsolete?

Let’s cut right to the chase: not at all. According to the US Department of Transportation, the rail freight network is an 80-billion-dollar industry with around 140,000 route miles of track, accounting for approximately 28% of all freight movement within the US! Not only that, but the “US freight rail network is widely considered the largest, safest, and most cost-efficient freight system in the world.”

Transportation experts agree that rail transportation services are only poised to grow in appeal and practicality for domestic suppliers due to increased urban congestion, road traffic, fuel costs, and other impediments that slow down shipping speeds.

Increased rail freight transportation has additional benefits such as fewer highway fatalities, lower fuel consumption and logistical costs, and even lower maintenance costs for public infrastructure like roads, highways, and bridges. These are only some of the advantages rail transportation services can have for companies and the public alike.

What Are the Advantages of Rail Shipping?

The clearest advantage of shipping bulk items using rail transportation services is cost savings. When bulk shipping items such as chemicals is an option, the cost savings potentials are huge for several reasons. First, trains are much more fuel-efficient than other methods of shipping. In fact, a single gallon of diesel fuel can move one ton of freight 470 miles. Additionally (and perhaps unknown to many), US freight railroads are privately owned and independent of public infrastructure maintenance costs. This privately-owned network comprises seven Class I railroads and many smaller regional and local railroads. These private companies continually invest in the quality and efficiency of their freight rail systems, with a high percentage of revenue going towards maintenance and network expansion to constantly improve their rail transportation services and make shipping safer and more efficient.

Is Rail Transportation Safe for Shipping Chemicals?

Rail transportation services are incredibly safe for chemical shipment. The Association of American Railroads (AAR) states, “99.99% of all hazmat moved by rail reaches its destination without a release caused by a train accident.” Hazmat accident rates have even decreased by 64% since 2000 due to the collaboration of private freight companies, customers, government agencies, and all other involved parties in investing money and labor into ensuring safer practices for hazmat rail transportation services, with the ultimate goal of one day being 100% accident-free.

Examples can be seen in more properly trained staff and the increased use and advancement of technology that monitors, inspects, and tracks rail equipment and freight. Additionally, USDOT updated regulations in 2015 that made rail cars that carry hazmat safer and structurally tougher, even in the case of an accident or derailment, as well as phasing out older cars that were no longer adequately safe for hazmat transportation.

Is a Rail Management Software Necessary for Chemical Railway Shipping?

Absolutely. Rail shipping in a modern context can only be efficiently managed through reliable Rail Management Software (RMS). Utilizing this software helps create reliable data and ensures companies can more efficiently track shipments, railcar contents, destinations, shipping times, and so on. This information can help make more data-driven decisions that ultimately save time and money.

Luckily CLX has an RMS built into our proprietary Transportation Management System (TMS). Utilizing our technology helps companies save time and money and makes all their shipping services more lucrative and efficient overall through the increased awareness, management, and ease of use of real-time shipping data like railcar tracking and industry-leading fleet analytics.

How Else Can CLX Improve Chemical Rail Shipping?

Not only does CLX provide a TMS and RMS, but we also maintain strong, established relationships with several Class I rail companies to provide chemical shippers with access to more routes than other competitors, ensuring we can clear any chokepoints or hurdles that could delay shipments. Our well-established relationships can also help lower the rates of railcars and streamline contract renewals. We also provide complete railcar maintenance and management solutions and complete invoice auditing to ensure you’re paying your expenses as planned and eliminating extraneous costs at every opportunity.

As you can see, shipping with railway logistics is more relevant and practical than ever and can be an incredibly safe and efficient shipping method for chemical suppliers. Even better, CLX is here to support you throughout the entire journey with our unparalleled experts and tools to help manage your rail needs. For a more detailed look at how we’ve helped reduce costs for a company shipping titanium dioxide (TiO2), read our full case study, Big Fish in a Bigger Pond: Upgrading a Chemical Supply Chain the Right Way.

If you have more questions or are ready to see how CLX can improve your chemical shipping processes, contact us today, and let’s get started.