The reduction of cost within the supply chain is essential and a constant drive for any organisations. Vendor and P.O Management are key ways in which Pantos driver cost out of the process. This is achieved through collating multiple orders and minimising the use of LcL and thus the optimisation of FcL movements.

By Managing the process it enables Pantos to view order progress to manage the process of shipment optimisation. It also facilitates a Milestone reporting process where Pantos feed progress updates to customers so that they can determine order availability, take decisions of partial and late orders and gain the visibility to this within the process. The scope of Vendor Management includes;-