Logistics Management

 (TTS) Turnkey Transportation Service’s logistic services allow our clients to modernize their logistics activities to increase efficiency and effectiveness of their everyday operations.  At TTS, our logistics professionals are highly qualified and well versed in all logistics activities from sophisticated routing and transportation of classified materials to simple everyday warehousing operations.

Turnkey Transportation Services offers a wide variety of services which includes Transportation Specialists, Packaging Specialists, Warehouse Management, Asset Tracking Solutions, Award winning RFID Technology, along with numerous other logistics products and services.

TTS believes, with the advancing of new and improved logistics technology solutions, it is key to have award winning, innovative project solutions at the same time, providing consistent results across your supply chain.

Waste Operations/Hazardous Materials Shipping

TTS staff has vast experience in shipping radioactive materials, hazardous materials and hazardous waste to Nevada Test Site, Energy Solutions-Envirocare, Energy Solutions-Oak Ridge, along with multiple locations across the United States. Our qualified staff can review the analytical data associated with your waste, identify disposal options, packaging options, prepare waste profiles, perform DOT/RCRA waste classification, complete shipping papers, coordinate logistics services, and complete all necessary disposal forms to assist in removing the waste materials from your site in a cost effective, compliant and safe manner.

Third Party Logistics

TTS can negotiate freight charges for large projects for less-than-load freight and truck-load movements.  Our staff has over 100 years of experience with tender rate negotiation/application.  We can also audit your freight bills to ensure that you are paying the best rate available to your corporation.  Our expertise in this area has saved the US Department of Energy over 1,000,000 dollars in one review session with one contractor.

Logistics Activities

TTS provides logistics activities involving shipping, receiving, storage operations, and distribution. This includes scheduling operations, monitoring inbound/outbound shipments, insuring correct freight rates, and assuring that all necessary resources are available to meet the business demands and perform maintenance of the equipment. TTS is experienced in developing and managing yearly transportation budget, and creating weekly, monthly and yearly transportation reports. TTS can write, implement and maintain the required policies to assure all hazardous material regulatory standards for federal, state, and local laws and regulations are met.

Contact and Remote Handled Transuranic Waste Management and Transportation

TTS staff has conducted extensive waste management and onsite transportation operations of contact and remote handled transuranic waste at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory for the past ten years. The TTS staff has conducted transportation and packaging of hundreds of RH and CH-TRU waste containers onsite under the requirements of 10 CFR Part 830 and authored Transportation Documented Safety Analysis in support of the Transuranic Waste Processing Facility operations. Waste management operations include storage, inspection, packaging and maintenance. TTS has extensive knowledge and experience with Type A and B radioactive material packaging operations in accordance with DOE or NRC certified Type A and Type B Safety Analysis Reports for Packaging.

Warehouse Operations

The TTS warehousing managers have experience in maintaining inventory of all stored items, recently received products, outgoing products, along with other job specific assets. TTS managers are expected to consistently improve dock to final recipient delivery times in all operations.  Turnkey warehouse managers are well versed in consolidating and centralizing all stored items/products in attempt to increase stored product turnover rates in return, lowering warehousing costs.  Our warehousing managers are comfortable with most inventory tracking/tagging systems in regards to storage and transportation of products.

RFITS Takes Shipping to the Next Level

Published in the October edition of the Nuclear Decommissioning Report .

Due to declining budgets and the drive for increased productivity, Information Technology Organizations need to support dynamic changes in business processes and strategically align themselves with both corporate missions as well as Department of Energy (DOE) mis­sions. Innovation should drive business in an efficient manner allowing reductions in such a way that enable the DOE to track, manage and dispose of hazardous, radioactive debris and materials in sustainable and efficient methods. As business applications, network appliances and hardware become more intelligent, Bigdata drives the need to think about data differently.

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Photo of the Radio Frequency Identification Transportation System (RFITS) in use on the K-33 project in Oak Ridge, TN.