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Volume 11, Issue 2
1 February 1990
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Review Article| February 01 1990

Make Freight Cost Control Part of Planning Available to Purchase

Phil Ramsdale;
Phil Ramsdale
Ramsdale Transportation Consultants, a Signal Hill, California‐based firm that designs and implements transportation cost‐reduction strategies and systems
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Steve Harvey
Steve Harvey
Manager in the Consultants to Management Group of Deloitte & Touche in Los Angeles
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 2052-1197
Print ISSN: 0275-6668
© MCB UP Limited
1990
Journal of Business Strategy (1990) 11 (2): 42–45.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb039362

Today, there are more ways to move freight than ever before. Here is how to tie transportation handling to strategic planning and reduce your company's freight bills.

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