Best Practices

“March Madness” is in full swing in college basketball and some industry analysts might also use a similar term to describe the current transportation environment “Rate Madness”.

With the options that digital technologies provide to develop new business models and new strategies, companies that integrate digital technologies into their supply chain can quickly improve service levels while cutting costs up to 30%.

The next generation of supply chains will be tasked with delivering an experience as well as a product.

Nearly 35% of the typical warehouse management system installation’s capabilities go unused on a daily basis - a fact that can keep companies from realizing true ROI, our contributing editor dives into these key elements that can no longer be ignored.

According to a recent survey, 65% of companies are still using spreadsheets in planning their supply chain process, and while they are familiar, inexpensive, and convenient relying on spreadsheets pose serious setbacks for organizations.

In today’s business environment, you can’t remain competitive without mastering analytics.

MercuryGate announced that it has been named a Challenger in the Gartner, Inc. Magic Quadrant for Transportation Management Systems.

The e-commerce industry is booming, and this has caused many organizations to overhaul their transportation operations due to the high volume of small orders that require Amazon-like delivery times.

Finding the proper mix of services while mitigating risk has never been more complicated for freight forwarders, say industry analysts.

Today, Thursday, March 8, 2018, is International Women's Day which commemorates the movement for women's rights throughout the world, and while there are numerous topics of conversation to discuss, we wanted to acknowledge why women are opting out of the technology sector and why it's so important to bring them back.

This article is intended to provide guiding principles for Sales and Operations Planning S&OP managers and their partners to help them better understand which best practices are possible through what-if analyses.

Even though a manufacturer may be an expert at producing goods it may not be as well-versed in the intricacies of transporting those materials, including unknowingly offering carriers non-compliant hazmat shipments.

With commercial truck driver shortage looming, a high school in Patterson, California decided to take a proactive approach by creating a truck driving school program dedicated to bringing new drivers into the industry.

Learn more about what's influencing your truckload, less-than-truckload, and Intermodal surface transportation strategies in 2018 and how to overcome the challenges.

The December 2017 mandate for electronic logging devices (ELDs) has come and gone, despite last-minute efforts by special interest groups to stop the rule from going into effect. So, now that the dust has settled, is it business as usual? Not totally.

A global online logistics community should be a vibrant entity where transparency of information, pricing, and service levels empower enterprises, carriers, and suppliers to take full advantage of revenue opportunities and build trusted-partner relationships.

A couple of years ago, we set out on a new project to redesign our user interface with the goal of setting a new standard by which all TMS user interfaces would be measured against.

Supply chain visibility will be a weighty topic in 2018, as the industry acclimatizes itself to new levels of supply chain control, however, the question is no longer whether visibility is essential for shipping companies, but how long customers are willing to patronize suppliers without it.

As capacity tightens and freight rates rise, both new and established TMS vendors are coming up with solutions that fit the smaller shipper’s budget while also offering all of the bells and whistles that larger systems offer, and logistics operations of all sizes are catching on.

SEKO Logistics has launched a new Airfreight+ Final Mile service in North America to give retailers, marketplace merchants and consumer brands a home delivery solution for bigger, bulkier products that delivers air cargo to their door at the speed of ecommerce.