LTL

Logistically, makers of cloud-integrated transportation management solutions have integrated SMC3's RateWare XL and CarrierConnect XL into Logistically TMS, providing fast, reliable rating and LTL transit and terminal information for customers.

For shippers, the lack of pricing regulation in the various modes they’re dependent upon is causing an increasingly worrisome financial squeeze.

We tend to take it for granted, and it’s not until you stop and really digest some of the numbers that you realize just how dominant trucking is as a mode of freight transportation in the United States.

Since last-mile transportation is currently incredibly fragmented and there are a number of early adopters that really have no specialized training, LTL carriers need to pay specific attention to maintaining a relationship with a trusted last-mile provider.

This paper takes a deep dive into SMC³’s CzarLite XL, an advanced pricing system solution that gives shippers, logistics service providers and carriers a new neutral benchmark choice when negotiating LTL shipping rates.

MercuryGate users now have access to a direct-to-carrier contract pricing solution delivered through the secure SMC³ Platform.

FourKites, a leading end-to-end supply chain tracking, and predictive analytics solution announced its partnership with SMC³, the leading less-than-truckload (LTL) data and API solutions provider, enabling FourKites customers to track all of their freight with the highest accuracy, including the market’s most comprehensive LTL data.

“Disruptors and Opportunities in a Year of Complexity” is the theme of this year's SMC³’s Jump Start 2018 conference in Atlanta which will focus on the biggest topics that touch virtually every aspect of today’s modern, complex supply chain.

FourKites, a provider of real-time supply chain visibility solutions across transportation modes and digital platforms, has several new integrated enhancements for visibility and orchestration within JDA's Transportation Management and has joined forces with SMC³ to create a single integration point for all LTL carriers.

These data sheets detail how the SMC³ Platform offers the only transportation APIs designed to go beyond simple connectivity to deliver service orchestration for logistics service providers, shippers, carriers, and technology providers.

SMC3's Chief Data Officer, Danny Slaton, and David Knight, former CIO, and Senior Vice President, Product Development, discuss How API Technology Connects the Transportation Economy.

SMC³ continues to innovate with the announcement that it has created an LTL rate benchmark, MexicoLite™ Intra, for shipments traveling point-to-point within Mexico.

The SMC³ Platform empowers 3PLs and Shippers of any size to successfully navigate and optimize the LTL shipment arena, choose the level of computing power based on your specific needs and operating environment with a technology platform offering the best of all worlds.

In an award-winning collaboration effort with a 3PL and TL partner, this global performance nutrition company has drastically reduced costs—all while improving service through and innovative “embedded” arrangement.

Chicago-based project44, a technology services provider offering standardized, secure Web service API (application programming interfaces) integrations enabling 3PLs and shippers to connect with carriers in real time, and 3GTMS, a Shelton, Conn.-based provider of Tier 1 transportation management software, said today they have partnered up to provide real-time full lifecycle LTL (less-than-truckload) and Volume automation services through 3GTMS’s technology platform.