Case Study: Ace Hardware achieves over $18M in transportation cost savings with BluJay Solutions

Ace Hardware Leverages BluJay’s Transportation Management to Reduce Freight Spend

Ace Hardware, a neighborhood hardware retailer founded in 1924 with over 4,000 stores and roughly $3.5 billion in annual sales, faced an inbound transportation challenge: manual, spreadsheet-driven processes left them with poor visibility into freight costs and supplier performance across a complex network that spends about $50 million annually on truckload shipments. With 65% of shipments freight collect and an ERP rollout years away, Ace prioritized a transportation management solution that would centralize freight payment, improve cost visibility, and reduce transportation spend.

Ace selected BluJay’s Transportation Management platform to automate planning, execution, tendering and settlement, provide real-time order and load visibility, and support procurement via market benchmarking (BluDex) and the Global Trade Network. The system improved carrier selection and routing, enabled better carrier negotiations, and delivered business intelligence that cut lead times and safety stock—resulting in more than $18 million in transportation savings and ongoing improvements in visibility, inventory turns, and freight performance.

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