Transportation

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.

The U.S. Energy Information Administration is projecting diesel fuel to average $4.09 this summer. Carrier bankruptcies and consolidations have reduced capacity, while demand has been increasing by almost 7% year over year, according to industry sources.

The decision was made to completely outsource its transportation management to a third party logistics (3PL) provider, which allowed company leadership to keep its focus on continuing the growth of its business and strengthening its core competency of producing juice-based drinks.

LLamasoft, the global leader in supply chain design software solutions, today announced that Mu Sigma, one of the world’s largest decision sciences and analytics firms, has selected LLamasoft Supply Chain Guru to help its clients harness big data to generate more effective supply chain designs.

Production modeling was once only used by plant-level operations engineers to help utilize capacity or schedule production. Today, many of the world’s leading companies have found that modeling production footprint, operations and capacity as part of their end-to-end supply chain practice can be the key to outperforming the competition. And that extends far beyond the four walls.

Contract logistics enables businesses to outsource distribution and warehousing solutions and drive value through superior return on your capital, sustained growth, and proactive risk management.

The company reported, on a non-GAAP basis, adjusted EBITDA for the first quarter of 2013 of $60.7 million, a $45.4 million improvement over the $15.3 million adjusted EBITDA reported for the first quarter of 2012.

Using Software to Enhance & Improve Your Supply Chain - Supply chain efficiency has forever been a mystery that C-level executives are inundated with deciphering - Advanced tools are needed to monitor and forecast results, providing executives with actionable business intelligence to ultimately reduce supply chain expenditures.

UPS announced it will purchase Hungary-based pharmaceutical logistics company, CEMELOG Zrt, as part of its ongoing global growth and investment strategy.

In order to determine whether centralized logistics structures also improve logistics performance, APQC compared the quality of deliveries, inventory management, and logistics costs of organizations using a centralized structure with those using a decentralized structure.

Next Generation Logistics, Inc., (NGL) a leading provider of managed freight services, TMS software, and supply chain consulting announces achieving a quarter-century servicing the supply chain industry.

Jack Pollak, an owner of a successful freight brokerage for over a decade, saw first-hand the inefficiencies and inequalities of the entire shipping business -- the incredible amount of back-and-forth calls involved in getting quotes and booking freight -- just for a single load.

A recently released study from the National Shippers Strategic Council (NASSTRAC), entitled “Freight Transportation 2013,” revealed many interesting takeaways on various links of today’s supply chain operations and performance.

This report explores shippers’ perspectives of emerging trends in the freight transportation industry. It addresses issues related to business strategy, collaboration practices, carrier selection, rates, capacity, mode selection, outsourcing, advocacy issues, technology, sustainability, and more.