API

Earlier this week, 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, announced it has completed a $45 million financing round, which was spearheaded by Sapphire Ventures.

Much of the market is weighing the pros and cons of transactional APIs versus EDI communications, but these messages must be coupled with high-speed analytical solutions that allow shippers and 3PLs to perform rating and transit-time analysis and audit to truly optimize their logistics network.

Chicago-based project44 announced it has added an international and domestic parcel tracking and address validation offering to its service menu.

In this SMC³ case study, Chad Earwood, CEO of eShipping, describes how they integrated the SMC³ platform for transactional LTL API connectivity, and by using the high-horsepower, analytical APIs RateWare XL and CarrierConnect XL they are able to obtain immediate LTL rates and even audit LTL pricing.

Following a November rollout of a new truckload visibility offering designed to enable a smarter information flow across shippers’ supply chains, Chicago-based project44 is taking the same approach for freight railroad shipping, announcing it has launched a new rail visibility API, which is focused on increasing end-to-end information symmetry through the elimination of shipment visibility gaps across United States and Canadian rail networks.

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.

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 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.

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.

While Electronic Data Interchange, or EDI, has made a tremendous contribution to integrating electronic communications, logistics managers looking to streamline and expedite common processes that are essential to their supply chain operations might want to check out the latest application programming interfaces, API approach.

In this white paper, we’ll explain what the term “big data” means to the typical supply chain, introduce effective strategies for managing and leveraging that data, show how one grocer is using predictive analytics to harness its own big data, and explain the “first steps” that companies need to take down the path to effective management of their big data.

This offering represents a further extension of the company’s objective to further automate the lifecycle of shipments and provide automation visibility.