Freight Bill Processor Data2Logistics' Harold Friedman to Address MAILCOM 2012

Online, April 12, 2012 (Newswire.com) - Global freight bill processor, auditor and advisor Data2Logistics announces Harold B. Friedman, Senior Vice President of Global Corporate Development of Data2Logistics will be presenting four educational seminars during MAILCOM 2012, April 15 - 18 at the Marriott Wardman Park in Washington, DC. Friedman, a 40-year active in the logistics and supply chain industries, will address issues affecting businesses' shipping costs, and information access to reduce them, including:

1. What Carriers Don't Want You to Know & Consultants Won't Tell You
2. Shipping Strategies for Savings
3. Global Parcel Management in a Shrinking World
4. Tip the Scale of Information in Your Favor.

"Companies' access to information on their past and current shipping activity, and their ability of awareness for future cost-savings is at the core of MAILCOM attendee's needs," comments Friedman. "Accessing information coupling their historical shipment activity, combined with forward-looking, efficient industry options data, will enable them to ship smarter and save, domestically and globally."

(For those unable to attend, contact Friedman at [email protected] for a copy of the presentations.)

Friedman's address comes amid Data2Logistics' further global expansion of the company's transportation cost-savings portfolio of freight bill auditing, processing payment and advisory services to companies who ship products domestically and internationally. Using actionable information from their powerful yet easy to use data mining and reporting tools, clients are able to identify savings, as well as improve negotiations and quality of service with LTL, TL, parcel, overnight express, ocean, heavy weight air and rail carriers.

Data2Logistics assists Global 1000, Fortune 1000 and SMB companies to reduce their product shipping costs by providing an outsourced opportunity to efficiently process, audit account code and pay their freight at a significantly lower cost than internal processes, while also identifying more carrier overcharges than internal systems. The company provides actionable information to better manage and control transportation cost, and supports clients with their carrier bid preparation, benchmarking, proposal analysis and negotiation for all modes on a global basis. As a single source of information, Data2Logistics seeks to identify opportunities for savings, report the reasons for variances, and determine and report variances in trends and opportunities to make in modal shifts, consolidate shipments, improve carrier utilization and adjust shipment size, as well as monitor accessorial cost, and costs per kilometre/mile. Reviewing over $15 billion worth of freight bills from thousands of carriers annually, the company offers a single-source solution for all modes of freight.

For Data2Logistics services information, contact Harold Friedman, +1 609 577 3756 or [email protected].

About Data2Logistics, LLC
Fort Myers, Florida-based Data2Logistics is a leader in supply chain logistics, cost management and freight payment. The company's Ship Smarter and Save capabilities assist hundreds of clients in the Global 1000, Fortune 1000 and SMB categories, processing hundreds of millions of freight bills annually, valued in excess of $15 billion, saving clients an average of 5%-15% of their product shipping expenditures per year.

As an eight-time recipient of Inbound Logistics' Top 100 Logistics IT Service Providers, their data mining capabilities creates actionable information for current and ongoing shipping cost savings. The company is the only service provider to work with clients and carriers to eliminate billing errors from recurring and to continuously improve and optimize their logistics networks and expenditures, domestically and globally. http://www.data2logistics.com/