Logistics CFO Services
Outsourced CFOs enable you to manage business margins, forecast fleet costs, and integrate operational tools with finance for seamless expansion.
What We Do
Strategy for Logistics Growth
The logistics industry is prone to rapid change. CFOs provide financial leadership to manage fuel fluctuations, optimize routes & scale operations.
Financial Reporting & Insights
Dimensional reporting covers metrics like delivery costs, project margins, and fleet ROI, providing data to replace gut feel.
System Design & Implementation
We determine your actual needs and customize your financial system to suit your financial operations and processes, including key integrations.
Track Profitability
Delve into profitability metrics using route, customer, and project data to identify healthy and underperforming contracts.
Strategic Planning
Strategic planning covers seasonal fluctuations and controlled expansion to ensure your financial processes and operations are fireproof.
Why Us
Strategic Logistics Expertise
Turn to experts in all logistical matters, including volatile fuel costs, driver shortages, and real-time visibility in a low-margin industry.
Industry-Specific Solutions
Designed for real-world logistics, including complex pay cycles, profitability metrics, and ROI.
Post-Go-Live Partnerships
Build partnerships that support audit readiness, optimize profitability, and deliver long-term value.
Integration Specialists
Connect finance and systems like TMS for improved workflow and a unified view of operations.
Operational Safety Insight
Custom systems enable you to identify potential safety issues and delays, and protect revenue.
Technology
Strategic Logistics Intelligence
CFOs understand your business, so they know which software solutions, like Sage Intacct, will provide optimum support for healthy finances.
Sage Intacct
Sage Intacct is a cloud accounting platform that automates financial processes, delivers real-time insights, and helps businesses scale with control.
FloQast
Accelerates the financial close process by improving your overall data accuracy and centralizing your workflows to enable better collaboration across accounting teams.
Ramp
Helps solve any spend control issues and visibility challenges through features like expense tracking, corporate cards, and automated accounting integration.
Quickbooks
Simplifies all bookkeeping, invoicing, and reporting processes for small to mid-sized businesses, offering real-time financial visibility and helpful automation features.
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How We Work
Three Steps to a Better System
We take time to understand what’s not working, then build practical systems that fix it and keep it fixed.
Discovery
We dig into what’s slowing you down, pinpointing messy processes, gaps, and what’s getting missed or duplicated.
Scope & Proposal
We outline what needs fixing, what it’ll take, and what a better setup looks like.
Onboarding
We get your team aligned, systems configured, and workflows in place, without confusion, rework, or wasted time.
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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Logistics CFO FAQs
Want additional information regarding our CFOs services for logistics businesses? The answers to your burning questions.
What metrics should logistics leaders track on their dashboards?
Never underestimate the importance of analytics when it comes to identifying high-performance areas and areas that need work. The right metrics provide important insights that help you refine your business operations and financial processes to increase revenue and reduce potential risks.
Some important metrics to consider include:
- Revenue for long-haul trips: This indicates the profitability of long-distance routes, enabling you to compare costs and make changes that protect your margins.
- Short-haul loads: This helps you track fleet utilization, so you can see if vehicles carry their full load capacity, and implement changes to improve the cost-effectiveness of each journey.
- Average per ton billing rate: This measures revenue per unit of cargo, so you can identify underperforming contracts and renegotiate more favorable rates.
Ultimately, these metrics provide the information you need to make wise investment decisions, like increasing your fleet or adding more subcontractors.
How do you help us manage fuel price volatility and transport costs?
If there’s one thing you can count on, it’s fluctuating fuel prices. It affects all industries, but it has a particularly significant impact on logistics. You can’t control prices, but you can control some of the operations that rely most on fuel. Your customized system provides the data you need to identify areas where efficiency can be improved and fuel use optimized.
For example, some routes are natural gas guzzlers. They might have traffic lights every ten yards, or they might be prime avenues for peak traffic. We can help you use tracking data (connected to finance) to identify cost-ineffective routes and find alternative routes that are more fuel efficient. In this instance, metrics like consumption per route are indispensable for route optimization.
What early warning signs suggest a logistics business has outgrown its systems?
There are generally five warning signs that indicate you’ve outgrown your existing financial systems.
- Increased billing errors. Your invoicing and billing demands exceed your software’s capacity.
- Increased customer complaints. An overburdened system causes delays and can mix-and-match orders to your customers’ intense dissatisfaction.
- Increased payroll disputes. Again, an overburdened system trying to cope with complex demands often throws up its hands, causing delays in payment and the odd miscalculation.
- Continued use of legacy systems that rely on Excel spreadsheets and manual processes. If you really want to succeed, manual systems must make way for advanced financial software.
- Systems no longer connect or integrate well. Your payroll software is ready to scale but your fleet management software remembers when Obama was president. The disconnect is a major obstacle to continued growth.
We develop a holistic tech environment designed to support growth, whether that’s increasing your fleet or extending your service area.
How does TydeCo™ support logistics businesses expanding across regions?
Your CFO will work with you to ensure expansion across regions is as seamless and painless as possible. A lot of it has to do with the quality of your software. We use scalable ERP platforms, like Sage Intacct, to meet and manage your increasingly complex financial needs.
Even the best ERP platforms are unlikely to manage 100% of your financial processes. Our solutions enable the integration of best-in-class tools to ensure every aspect of financial (and related) management is taken care of.
This means you get to focus on strategic growth, while we cover things like consolidated reporting. The systems we design also automatically update things like regional compliance requirements. This is important because international markets are a spider’s web of regulations.
Your CFO helps you comply with relevant rules and legislation, while still providing centralized financial oversight to ensure the uninterrupted continuation of local operations.
How can we improve our forecasting for seasonal peaks?
The logistics industry operates at the whim of seasonal demand. It’s essential to identify seasonal patterns so you can prepare for the peaks and the troughs. The best way to detect patterns is through data analytics, especially predictive analytics that uses historical data to forecast future trends.
Your tailored financial system can include analytics tools to help you prepare for seasonal fluctuations. What’s more, system integrations that link operational data with financial forecasting enable you to plan for changing staffing needs and anticipate capacity requirements.
Outsourced CFOs work with you to ensure you have the tools and resources in place to sail through spikes and dips without straining your margins, incurring high costs, or sacrificing the quality of your services.
The bottom line is that preparation prevents problems. Without the right tools, services, and advice, the best you can do is react to challenges and hope for the best.
