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3 Things You Can Do to Start Mastering Analytics
In today’s business environment, you can’t remain competitive without mastering analytics.
MercuryGate Positioned as TMS Challenger in Gartner Magic Quadrant
MercuryGate announced that it has been named a Challenger in the Gartner, Inc. Magic Quadrant for Transportation Management Systems.
Transportation Capacity Management and the Evolving Logistics Business of Ecommerce
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.
Leveraging SCM Digitization to Attack New Markets
Finding the proper mix of services while mitigating risk has never been more complicated for freight forwarders, say industry analysts.
International Women’s Day 2018: Bringing Women Back to the Information Technology Sector
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.
Product Mix Analysis: Strengthening Sales and Operations Planning with What-if Analysis
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.
4 Tips for Choosing a Hazmat Carrier
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.
Patterson High School Takes on Truck Driver Shortage
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.
Taking Advantage of 2018 Truckload, Less-than-Truckload, and Intermodal Strategies
Learn more about what's influencing your truckload, less-than-truckload, and Intermodal surface transportation strategies in 2018 and how to overcome the challenges.
Four Tips for Optimizing Trucking Rates and Capacity
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.
Global Online Logistics Community: If You Build It They Will Come, Sometimes
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.
Realizing a New Vision for TMS Design
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.
Attaining Supply Chain Visibility Doesn’t Have To Be an Overwhelming Task
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.
Transportation Management Systems Market 2018
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.
Bringing Airfreight Home, at the Speed of eCommerce
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.
Supply Chain Visibility Beyond “Where’s My Truck?”
The key to making your supply chain data work for you is realizing that every load you move is a constellation of valuable data points that can be used to rocket your business miles above the competition.
Keeping Pace with Walmart’s On-Time Delivery Requirements
Walmart announced new "On Time & In Full" or OTIF guidelines for suppliers, and is the next evolution of the Supply Chain Reliability program, the last big buzzword was "Must Arrive By Date" or MABD, which generally required you to deliver your products within a 4 day window, but the big change with OTIF is that you now need to deliver your products within a 1 day window and on the exact date, and it must be the full purchase order.
What Is Supply Chain Orchestration (Really) – And Is It Even Possible?
Learn what complete “supply chain orchestration” really means and find out if it is an attainable goal within your existing ERP, business process environments.
Learn How to Avoid Outdated Technology in Your Company
If you are ready and want to scale your business, how do you make sure you’ve got the right technology to do so, and will you scale your technology to align with your business’s development and growth strategies?
5 Things to Know Regarding US-Mexico Cross-Border Logistics
Five things to consider when managing cross-border logistics between the United States and Mexico.