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title: Calculate your road transport cost savings potential | Get 4flow TORO results
description: Calculate your transportation cost savings potential with our road transport cost savings calculator. Estimate your savings for FTL and LTL transports to optimize material planning.
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# **Your transportation cost savings potential**

Simply chose your main transportation mode and calcualte a first estimate

Road transport Sea transport

# **Get your transportation savings potential in a few clicks**

**Integrating transportation optimization into your material planning processes enables average cost savings of 12%**

[Calculate your savings potential](https://software.4flow.com/transportation-cost-savings-calculator#calculate)

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Material and transportation planning often work in silos, causing overall planning inefficiency, higher costs and lower truck utilization.  
Optimizing demands for transportation early helps planners make confident decisions and achieve significant cost savings. The software solution 4flow TORO makes it possible.

### How much could you save on transportation?

##### Answer the questions below and find out how much you could save by optimizing for transportation in material planning

What is your total transportation spend per year?

If you’re unsure, 2% of your yearly revenue is a good estimate.

€

How many of your shipments are road transports?

Select an option 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 %

How many of your road transports are FTL shipments?

Select an option 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 %

Select an option LTL

What is the average utilization of your FTL shipments?

Select an option \< 65 65 - 74 75 -84 85 - 89 90 - 95 \> 95 %

In general, how often do you receive FTL shipments?

For example, if demand or order sizes are stable, select “low”.

Select an option daily 2x p. wk. 1x p. wk. 2x p. month

In a given month, how would you describe the fluctuation in demands or orders to be shipped via FTL transports?

For example, if demand or order sizes are stable, select “low”.

Select an option low medium high

Minimum saving potential is 3%

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###### Results

Here's a quick overview over your savings potential: Based on the provided input we estimate your minimum cost savings for road transport as follows: 

The transport cost for your FTL road transports is:  €

**Cost savings for your FTL road transports in percent:**  %

**Cost savings for your FTL road transports in Euro:**  €

In addition to your FTL cost savings, additional transport cost savings of 3% to 20% can be achieved for other transport types​. This equals to  €

Why should you optimize transportation earlier in your supply chain processes?​

 

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### Ensure average cost savings of 12%

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### Eliminate silos and increase planning efficiency

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### Automate processes and boost transparency

[Talk with our experts](https://software.4flow.com/transportation-cost-savings-calculator#form)

Read our success stories and real case studies

 

**Case study**

#### Maximizing freight container utilization for a discrete manufacturer

 

[READ MORE](https://www.4flow.com/solutions/integrated-material-transportation-planning-software/4flow-toro/case-study-discrete-manufacturing.html)

**Case study**

#### Transforming automotive inbound LTL networks for 17% cost savings

 

[READ MORE](https://www.4flow.com/solutions/integrated-material-transportation-planning-software/4flow-toro/case-study-ltl.html)

**Blog**

#### How BAT is optimizing its global outbound transportation network

 

[READ MORE](https://www.4flow.com/blog/how-bat-is-optimizing-global-transportation.html)

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