Partnership with Matson Integrated Logistics Gives MfgQuote.com Users Preferred Pricing for their Shipping Needs.
Matson Integrated Logistics (MIL), a leader in an estimated $23.5 billion logistics industry, provides multimodal transportation services including domestic intermodal rail service, long haul and regional highway services, specialized hauling and expedited air and ground services. MIL is a Top Performer in Logistics Management magazine's Quest for Quality award for service excellence each of the last four years.
MfgQuote.com users who create or respond to an RFQ will have the opportunity to work through Matson Logistics to develop a customized transportation solution for shipments of a pallet or larger. MfgQuote.com's relationship with Matson gives users preferred pricing on Matson services, enabling users to save money on every RFQ they execute.
"MfgQuote.com connects buyers and suppliers around the globe and each RFQ that passes through MfgQuote.com will have engineered-to-order components that will need to be delivered," said Mitch Free, president and CEO of MfgQuote.com. "We decided to help streamline the process and provide logistics management, along with special pricing to the MfgQuote.com community. Logistics considerations are part of the RFQ creation and quoting process, and now the MfgQuote.com community has convenient, yet highly flexible options with Matson."
The MfgQuote.com/Matson relationship directly addresses supply chain needs outlined in AMR Research's April 2005 report "Contract Manufacturing at a Cross Roads: Brand Owner Need for Visibility." These needs include:
- A wider range of supply and logistics services for brand owners.
- The ability for parties in long-distance, overseas contract
manufacturing relationships to be more responsive to volatile demand.
- More coordination points between brand owners and contract
manufacturers because of an expanding range of outsourced services,
including the creation of finished goods, configuration to order, and
delivery to the customer's distribution center, assembly line,
warehouse or end customer's address.
- Automation of information transfer and business processes between
buyers and suppliers.
"Our partnership with MfgQuote.com can help turn a low-volume regional supplier into a high-volume global supplier and simultaneously expand procurement options for purchasing agents and design engineers," said Matson VP of Marketing Gary Eyring. "With global competition increasing, getting the goods in the right place at the right time is critically important to supply chain success."
About Matson
Matson provides ocean transportation, intermodal and logistics services, primarily in U.S. domestic markets. Matson is a wholly owned subsidiary of Alexander & Baldwin, Inc. of Honolulu.
About MfgQuote.com
MfgQuote.com is the world's largest marketplace for sourcing and selling manufacturing services. Headquartered in the United States, MfgQuote.com instantly and intelligently matches buyers with suppliers of manufactured parts across the globe, greatly expanding business opportunities for both. MfgQuote.com is transforming the once-fragmented world of manufacturing into a single, on-demand service, enabling products to be sourced and built more easily, quickly, inexpensively, and at higher quality levels.
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