Inbound freight often finds its way into vendor product purchase price rather than to the transportation budget. But, it is a transportation cost nonetheless. Leading firms request freight collect and freight prepaid bids from all of their vendors and then take over the control of the inbound shipments that make economic sense. One small grocery retailer ($7 billion in sales) saved over $10 million in a small pilot by controlling certain inbound loads and is looking to expand this and realize a $40 million savings.