Transportation Management

An efficient supply chain that speeds furniture to customers is a major competitive advantage for American furniture companies. Today, most furniture sold in the United States is imported, and much of it is purchased online. Such a lengthy supply chain increases the risks of damage, but those risks are present any time furniture is transported. Furniture companies eager to reduce costs understand that reducing damage is one important way to cut expenditures, improve efficiency, and increase customer satisfaction.

In the United States each year, nearly 11 million volunteers donate some 17 million units of whole blood and red blood cells, but much of that safe, transfuseable blood – about 2 percent – is discarded. A failed cold chain and poor management practices are the two greatest contributors to the loss. A comprehensive temperature monitoring strategy can resolve many of the issues that allow good blood to go bad, thus saving valuable resources.

The global Delphi study, “Delivering Tomorrow − Customer Needs in 2020 and Beyond.” The study helps us forecast groundbreaking new trends in consumer and corporate demand over the next twelve years and beyond.

Freightfriend.com is a FREE load and truck posting web site where freight companies and shippers select who can see their postings by inviting their transportation partners as "friends". Now you can post your shipments or equipment in one web site, providing real-time visibility only to your "friends". Now you can access real-time information on all of your "friends" loads and trucks from one web site, where you can easily search and match them to your needs.

Rakuten said it will acquire Webgistix, which provides warehouse and shipping services to online retailers. Webgistix says it can provide 1-2 day shipping for customers from its U.S. facilities in New York, Las Vegas, Atlanta and Reno.

The 2,600 primarily customer attendees at this year’s JDA FOCUS were looking for lots of things. They wanted to learn about JDA eight, a cloud-based bundle of more than 30 supply chain software products built on a single platform. And they wanted to know how any one of those products – WMS, TMS, SCMP—might improve their businesses.

MIQ Logistics is a third party logistics company that supports the domestic and international movement of our customers’ goods. We specialize in all modes of transportation to include Ocean, Air, Drayage, Flatbed, Cartage, Specialized, Truckload, and LTL.

Many small and mid-size companies may not have the resources in-house to effectively manage the challenges associated with logistics.

Expanded emissions model enables "Green" decision making for shippers

Leading Packaging Company to Leverage Logistics Provider’s Transportation Management Services and Industry Expertise for Driving Supply Chain Efficiency, Cost Savings.

Four years into its agreement, the collaborative partnership between Transplace and Cummins creates consistent cost savings as the companies partner to map out further strategic structural improvements.

Companies and their supply chain managers can no longer afford to treat reverse logistics as an afterthought. There is just too much at stake in terms of brand protection, sustainability requirements, and ultimately profitability. In short, reverse logistics needs to become a core competency. The practical insights offered here will help you develop that competency.

The impact of the cloud on logistics can sometimes be so overwhelming that it's hard to discern exactly what it is changing. In the next few hundred words, we'll boil down the essence of this revolution and why you should expect more than ever from your 3PL.

Manhattan Associates has named 4SIGHT Supply Chain Group, a leading supply chain consulting, systems implementation and engineering firm, to the Manhattan Partner Performance Club for its efforts to help clients successfully deploy Manhattan solutions.

To support the prioritization and implementation of transportation improvements, this paper outlines a realistic approach to identifying, planning and executing on transportation-related projects – from developing strategy and identifying opportunities to applying benchmarking and delivering results.

The Third Annual Q1 2013 DAT Carrier Benchmark Survey drew 514 responses from DAT customers, including carriers, owner-operators, private fleets and asset-based brokers. This report is based on responses of the for-hire carriers and owner-operators only.

TransCore’s satellite tracking and monitoring lets TFG give its customers current information on load status, and keeps them out of “penalty boxes.”

This report is about a different approach to transportation management by Best-In-Class companies, their views of the world, how they make decisions and prioritize them and the processes and technologies that they see as vital to success.

This report is about how businesses lack transportation cost controls, the segmented information systems relative to freight shipping and provides a solution to this dilemma with a strategic approach to transportation spend management by via use of web services to reduce transit cost, and simultaneously optimize efficiency, compliance and customer service levels.

Since 1978, DAT has been recognized as the industry standard for quantity of loads and trucks and the quality of potential business partners to be found in the spot freight market. 68 million loads & trucks annually, 45 million found here first or nowhere else. Our brokers pay 4.5 days faster. 285,000 carriers monitored daily for insurance, authority and FMCSA safety ratings.