Schneider National Named 2009 Best Third-Party Service Provider by VICS

GREEN BAY, Wis. - Dec. 3, 2009 - Schneider National, Inc., a premier provider of transportation, logistics and intermodal services, has received the "2009 Best Third-Party Service Provider" recognition from the Voluntary Interindustry Commerce Solutions (VICS) Association, which exists solely to help businesses optimize business processes and costs.

Each year, the VICS Collaborative Commerce Achievement Awards recognize companies in the retail and consumer-focused industries that create solutions to eliminate billions of dollars of waste and delay from the supply chain. Schneider National and Schneider Logistics both received recognition this year.

"We are deeply honored to be recognized by the VICS board for helping to achieve greater supply chain efficiencies," said Steve Matheys, executive vice president and chief administration officer for Schneider National. "We are equally gratified that Kimberly-Clark and Whirlpool Corporation gave us the opportunity to work with them to enhance their supply chain operations. Collaborative solutions that result in real cost efficiencies have never been more important than during the recent economic downturn. We're proud of the team that helped both Kimberly-Clark and Whirlpool achieve strong business results."

Steve Harmon, vice president, corporate transportation for Kimberly-Clark Corporation (NYSE: KMB), said that Schneider National continues to go above and beyond to help them solve customer problems. "Our customer base came to us with specific requests to help them improve service to their existing distribution-center-to-retail-store business quickly, without extensive capital investment," reported Harmon. "Schneider contributed logistics and technical expertise for freight movement and developed a 'Convergence' model for simplifying the invoicing process. The pilot with a major grocery retailer was successful in reducing handling costs and improving on-time service to stores."

Both Schneider National and Kimberly-Clark are eager to take the "Convergence" model from pilot to scale, ensuring continued efficiencies along the way.

Efforts with Whirlpool were equally compelling. Whirlpool and Schneider Logistics Consulting validated and catalogued global logistics cost across six continents, 50 factories, 140 warehouses, 200 suppliers and 300,000 customers. Through coordinated assessments, the joint team identified and prioritized more than 20 projects tied to network design, process improvements and best practices implementation.