Dole Food Company and Transplace Continue Relationship for Sourcing North American Transportation Services
February 7, 2012 (Dallas, TX) – Transplace, a leading provider of transportation management services and logistics technology solutions, today announced that Dole Food Company, Inc. successfully completed their third domestic sourcing in which Transplace facilitates Dole’s strategic transportation services for their over-the-road North American freight network.
Dole Food is the world's largest producer and marketer of high-quality fresh fruit and vegetables, and is a market leader in packaged foods and frozen fruit. For several years, Dole has employed Transplace's industry-leading transportation sourcing methodology, powered by CombineNet’s proprietary sourcing technology solution.
“The partnership Dole Food has with Transplace has proven to work very well and has assisted in our efforts of contracting for cost competitive, service-minded and capacity committed transportation services to move our North American over the road motor carrier freight network,” said Ulises J. Carrillo, vice president, global logistics, Dole Food. “As Dole continues to focus on the best service for our customers, the Transplace sourcing engagements have proven over the years to be an enabling solution and an important part of our strategy for success.”
With network optimization as the goal, Transplace provides Dole Food with a deeply proven and systematic approach to developing a transportation sourcing strategy. Transplace considers all critical business factors and recommends strategic assignment of carriers to all of the lanes within the Dole’s North American freight network.
We are excited to formally announce Transplace is continuing its relationship with Dole Food. By providing Dole with the information and optimization they need, our relationship serves as an extension of Dole’s transportation and logistics and supports their overall company goals,” said Matthew Menner, senior vice president of Transplace. Dole’s long partnership with Transplace continues in part because of our deep expertise in the consumer goods vertical. Dole Food is one of our many important customers we serve in this growing area. Because of our visibility across consumer goods customers, we help them identify and apply best practices for continued improvement in their freight network.
About Dole Food Company
Dole, with 2010 net revenues of $6.9 billion, is the world’s largest producer and marketer of high-quality fresh fruit and fresh vegetables, and is the leading producer of organic bananas and producer/shipper of organic pineapples. Dole markets a growing line of packaged and frozen fruit and is a produce industry leader in nutrition education and research. For more information, please visit http://www.dole.com
About Transplace
Transplace is a non-asset, North American based third party logistics (3PL) provider offering manufacturers, retailers and consumer packaged goods companies the optimal blend of logistics technology and transportation management services. From complete logistics management outsourcing to its intelligent transportation management system (TMS) and supply chain network planning and design to high-quality brokerage services, Transplace has proven the ability to deliver both rapid return on investment and consistent value to customers. The company is recognized among the elite global 3PLs by a customer base that includes many of the largest shippers in the world.