You share a beer, we share a truck: Stone Brewing’s blueprint for balanced cost, reliability and sustainability

In beer, making the merchandise is lone fractional the challenge; the different fractional is delivering wrong strict windows without sacrificing prime oregon budget. To tackle this challenge, Stone Brewing partnered with Flock Freight to adhd Shared Truckload (STL) to a blended proscription strategy, cutting walk connected underutilized truckloads by 23%, portion maintaining 99% on-time pickup and 97% on-time delivery, and eliminating 195 metric tons of CO2e successful the archetypal year.

“With Flock, we’ve seen a affirmative interaction connected our work KPIs and lawsuit experience. With greater flexibility and visibility, we’re capable to program much proactively, respond faster to changes, and present with much consistency. That reliability strengthens our lawsuit relationships and supports semipermanent growth,” said Tyler Thorpe, Senior Transportation Manager, Sapporo-Stone Brewing.

Beverage shippers often negociate orders that autumn betwixt LTL and afloat truckload, with volumes that plaything by distributor demand, promotions, and seasonality. Traditional LTL adds handling and dwell clip done hub-and-spoke networks, portion afloat truckload tin permission unused abstraction and higher costs. STL aggregates compatible freight connected akin routes truthful shippers wage lone for the abstraction they need, portion preserving truckload-level handling and assignment integrity.

Stone didn’t regenerate existing modes; they built a elemental operation that flexes by volume, lane density, and pb time:

• STL for mid-sized shipments and irregular lane patterns

• Multi-stop truckload for higher-volume, sequential deliveries

• Single-stop truckload for direct, high-capacity moves

This keeps operations creaseless portion safeguarding work KPIs.

Flock Freight evaluates each shipment and recommends the mode successful existent clip utilizing their patented pooling technology, deploying STL lone erstwhile it provides a wide advantage. When measurement oregon lane patterns are amended suited to single-stop oregon multi-stop TL, the mode adjusts to conscionable assignment schedules and distributor requirements.

Beyond execution, Flock provides proactive inclination investigation and KPI tracking, flagging opportunities and making recommendations up of marketplace shifts truthful Stone tin program with confidence, adjacent done seasonal request spikes oregon capableness swings.

Key initiatives:

• Planning astir assignment constraints to debar penalties oregon rescheduling delays

• Blending STL, multi-stop, and TL modes arsenic markets shift

• Prioritizing work standards to support distributor and retailer relationships