FREIGHT LOGISTICS SOLUTIONS
Your digital freight forwarding company
WITH UNIQUE EXPERTISE IN THE MOVEMENT AND ALLIANCE OF FREIGHT ACROSS THE UK, EUROPE AND WORLDWIDE
Freight Logistics Solutions is your digital freight forwarding company Headquartered in Pontypool, South Wales, with offices in Monmouth and Silverstone, FLS specialises in offering commercial transport logistics solutions and supply chain management through our unique expertise in the movement and alliance of freight across the UK, Europe and Worldwide. We created this business through sector need and our passion for quality solutions that are technology-driven, personality backed and take care of our customers’ needs, improve quality, and reduce costs.
UKs Largest Carrier Network
We are your digital road freight logistics partner when it comes to Full Truck Loads (FTL). As one of the UK’s leading forwarder, we give our customers access to our connected virtual fleet of thousands of vehicles. By leveraging our technology, we are helping move logistics in a new direction for manufacturers and bring a new degree of transparency and flexibility to your business that’s much needed. We aim to save money for our clients, increase earnings for our carriers whilst reducing empty journeys and carbon emissions. 02
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Your full load, road freight partner Reduce your transport spend today and streamline your cargo management. From small vans to artics and everything in between, UK and Internationally.
Quality and performance at the right price
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Our road freight infrastructure across the UK and Europe enables FLS to get your shipment to its destination quickly and efficiently. With access to an industry-leading carrier network, we offer you the services you and your customers demand in a timely manner. We offer daily departures across the UK and Europe and transport a wide range of products through our network providing the most cost-effective and efficient solution to deliver your road freight to its destination.
By utilising FLS services, you will gain access to a variety of delivery solutions from vans, part load and full load services throughout the UK and Europe through a full range of vehicles: • Vans – SWB, LWB, and Luton’s • 7.5T – Tail lifts and pump trucks • 18T – Including tail lifts and Moffit’s • Artic – Curtain side, Tautliner, Bulk and Mega Trailers • HIAB – Tailored to specific movements • Flatbeds – Side pins and posts
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Fast and efficient deliveries – on your site within an hour! Every-day, same-day express courier services across the UK and internationally – providing flex and peak support solutions for multidrop parcel carriers.
FLS provides an owner driver, van-based delivery resource for multidrop parcel delivery organisations and companies looking for same-day or scheduled A to B courier solutions. Our express dedicated service is run via our extensive range of A to B preferred suppliers, providing a quality service at the most cost-effective price and time-efficient means to get your delivery to its destination. On your site within the hour! We are always looking for new routes but with daily export and import services to and from Central, Eastern European and Scandinavian countries we can maximise your options for getting goods in and out of Europe. If customs and transit declarations are required – we can take care of that too! 06
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A2B Express delivery including timed collection
Multidrop parcel support services
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• Full owner driver vetting / profiling service • National coverage for parcel carrier support • Support for multidrop flex and peak • Shipments provided through a range of vehicles • Out of hours delivery services • 24/7 account management
• On your site within an hour (EU 2hrs) • Single or two-person white glove solutions • Standard & temperature controlled options • Fixed price per mile on UK express service • Import / Export, T1 documents taken care of
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Complete outsourced freight transport service Streamline and improve your transport management multi-site solutions for your business, improve consistency, reduce costs, enhance your customer service and data insight. We work in partnership with our clients with the goal of providing a seamless 3PL and digital freight offering, with improved transport efficiencies and cost savings. FLS has an industry-leading carrier network and frameworks that offer sustainable and fixed transport cost savings. Savings delivered by FLS are not from transport rates alone, but through business efficiencies that deliver transport-specific service improvements and cost-saving identified through data insight. Our multi-service offering and vast global carrier supply chain means we not only offer an onsite, outsourced solution that equals service improvements and cost savings to your business, but our experience and expertise means we support your customer care, future transport strategy and overall business vision. Following a review of services and providers, FLS produces a complete overview on potential savings and services, with a proposal that will include mobilisation planning, SLAs, and continual improvements strategy within an outsourced arrangement.
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Expected results from FLS outsourcing:
• Time and cost savings with the typical target of more than 15–25% net savings
• Provision of regular and detailed
information to support future strategy and vision for transport within a business
• Improved customer service and
control over internal and external service standards
• Administration savings, through
single point invoicing and systems managing the compiling of all required documentation
• Increasing flexibility via a fixed,
resource-based transport solution with access to a vast supply chain of carriers
• Access to our bespoke online Client Portal, giving instant access to booking records, costs, transport reports, KPIs and PODs!
• Improved business and transport
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Dedicated customs declaration agent Your partner in the movement of freight internationally - Processing your UK export and import customs declarations – arranging your EU transit document and deferment.
Moving your freight in and out of Europe and Worldwide Customers are the very heart of our business, FLS was born out of the EU Referendum result and since, have spent years preparing for Brexit. During the transition period, we have kept our customers informed on developments from the heart of the Government and ran several Brexit seminars. The UK has now formally left the Customs Union, and for many the initial trading period has been challenging.
Despite the recently ratified withdrawal agreement, every consignment to and from the UK is now subject to customs declarations and potentially transit documents. Our UK Brexit team, is here to support you through this time. We know uncertainty is worrying, but we are confident that our global network and years of experience mean that we’re best placed to support you. 10
• In-house team of customs agents • UK exports and imports • EU imports and exports • Transit documentation • Clearance support and advice
Customs, transit, safety and security declarations are processed as quickly as possible and we are happy to support you with EU import/export, incoterms, T1s, commercial invoice updates, origin, product codes, best ports for your EU destination, Duty Deferment and much more.
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Sector leading client portal for full access to your data Driving forward your digital freight solution Reduce your transport spend and streamline your logistics management today. FLS provide a market leading digital freight service with the personalities to back it up. Award nominated digital freight tools - individually deployed online customer areas that give you access to your bookings, records, reports, KPIs, customs docs, and PODs.
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Seamless freight bookings
Instant access to your freight status
Our custom digital freight solution provides our clients with the easiest way possible to make and control multiple site bookings against a fixed rate card.
Access our client portal live to see your freights current status and position, supported by a team based in Pontypool and Silverstone 24/7.
Assuring your freight on the best vehicle
Providing full access to your freight data
Our green freight objective means we always provide the most appropriate and economical vehicle for the goods we’re moving.
Our client portal provides full analytics and data insight of your transport usage, with spend by service, clients, and locations. A full overview of service provisions detailing logistics performance, what it cost and where it could be improved.
Instant access to your PODs
Improving your client relationships
Providing full analytics and data insight of your transport usage, with spend by service, clients, and locations. A full overview on service provisions and how your logistics performed, - what it cost, and where it could be improved.
Improved delivery services, lower costs and raising data insight, live load tracking giving your team access to booked collections, ETAs, and delivery times, supporting effective and up to date communication with your clients.
At FLS we are focused on providing excellent customer service, and whilst the team is full of great talent, we acknowledge we all need the right tools to get the job done. For a growing number of organisations, transport, for the first time has crept past labour as being the costliest outgoing for their business and in an age where data is king it is imperative you have an instant and accurate picture of what’s going on. Are your products now correctly priced to anticipate the rising cost of transport? 13
An unrivalled carrier portal that attracts and manages our vehicles The most important part of our business is our suppliers, with excellent carrier relationships, great terms and in depth compliance, we make sure we maintain relationships with the very best couriers and hauliers across the UK and Europe. With over 8000 carriers in our database offering over 40,000 vehicles, we understand we are only as good as the carrier we send our customers, our objectives are to meet the high standards our clients expect, in the timescale they want at the price they need and more. At the core or our contractors relationships is the FLS Carrier Portal, a cloud-based and smart phone app software platform that makes subcontracting faster, more intelligent, more environmentally friendly and more transparent for carriers, us and our clients.
• Exclusive marketplace • Quote before load hits open market • Automated bookings • Digital order management • Fleet profile management and telematic integrations • Empty load planning • Route assistance • Full visibility and accounting • Electronic PODs and invoicing
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Speed of response
Time monitored performance with KPI’s against deliverables for all aspects of your transport requirement, from point of booking to point of delivery.
Quality of supply chain
A global supply chain administered through our preferred supplier compliance process, framework allocated and continuous performance measurement.
ay 24 hrs a d ear y 365 days aated our dedic here team are to help
Communication
A 24-hour service, based from our headquarters, supporting your business needs and your customers requirements.
Value for Services
We’re always optimising pricing structure throughout our supply chain, from effective loading schedules to offering volume-based discounts to customers.
Compliance
Our network of vehicles and companies under go a preferred supplier set up process with a stringent and visible audit procedure for all documentation.
UK Export and Import Agent
Our customs team will take care of your customs and transit declarations to manage your road freight in and out of the UK.
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We create partnerships that learn about your unique business requirements Getting the Right product, in the Right quantity, in the Right condition, at the Right place, at the Right time, to the Right customer, at the Right price. FLS offers logistical solutions derived from working backgrounds and expertise in operational, supply chain and logistics – with the ultimate business purpose of improving our clients’ transport service levels whilst reducing costs. FLS has a vast global network of preferred suppliers and quality carriers, meaning that you benefit from improved security, guaranteed service levels, greater flexibility, traceability and time-definite deliveries. FLS offers a range of services to suit all clients’ freight handling needs from occasional transport usage right through to organisations looking to completely outsource their transport management department. With a huge range of vehicle and delivery options available, your logistics challenges become our mission to deliver tailor-made freight and logistics services that improves your business and reduces your costs.
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Automotive
Manufacturing
Print & Packaging
Transportation and logistics services that optimise supply chains, improve time critical deliveries, and meet tighter production schedules.
Full compliance to regulatory, safety and security legislation with FLS provide versatile solutions to maintain product integrity during transportation.
With extensive experience in the sector FLS understand the perishable and sensitive nature of print and packaging products and their unique delivery sites.
Life Science & Healthcare
Construction
Industrial Engineering
From equipment to pharma and the NHS FLS dedicated team ensures compliance to quality and security standards, as well as temperature control across storage and transit.
Compliance with construction regulations and quality standards combined with timely delivery to complex sites is essential to ensure the sector gets what it needs when it needs it.
We strive to make supply chains leaner and more agile to handle the complex demands of a sector with often heavy, oversized and difficult to manage freight requiring the most bespoke transport solutions.
Retail
Waste
FMCG
From import and transport to warehouse, distribution centre pick-n pack or directto-store, goods reach retailers directly and on-time.
With UK and European Waste Carriers Licence, FLS has enormous end-to-end experience in the sector. From domestic collections to transfer stations, MRFs and the export of recyclate across the world.
Experts in cold-chain management and refrigerated cargo shipping, FLS understand the pressure clients are under in the fast-moving goods sector to make sure stock always arrives in its time slot and in pristine condition.
AUSTRIA • BELGIUM • BOSNIA BULGARIA • CROATIA • CZECH REPUBLIC DENMARK • ESTONIA • FINLAND FRANCE • GERMANY • GREECE HERZEGOVINA • HUNGARY • ITALY LATVIA • LITHUANIA • LUXEMBOURG MACEDONIA • NETHERLANDS • NORWAY POLAND • PORTUGAL • ROMANIA SERBIA • SLOVAKIA • SLOVENIA SPAIN • SWEDEN • SWITZERLAND TURKEY • UK The benefits of using FLS
• Save your business between 5 and 25% on logistics costs
• Full range of vehicle options - from van to artic • Access to over 10,000 quality carriers across Europe • Visible supply chain vetting and audits • A-B Express, multi-drop parcel support options • Fully outsourced transport solutions • Regular European routes • All import & export documentation managed for you
• Prompt POD returns (available online) • Enhanced insurances • Project management and seasonal peak fulfilment Our experienced operators will be able to support you and advise on the best possible solution for your consignment.
For more information on our services please
Call us on 01633 288 400
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Skewfields, Lower Mill, Pontypool, Torfaen, NP4 0XZ, UK Tel: +44 (0)1633 288 400 Innovation Centre, Silverstone, Towcester, NN12 8GX, UK Tel: +44 (0)1327 362 222
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