Topic: TMS

We’ve once again surrounded ourselves with some of the leading economic, fuel and freight transportation analysts in the market, allowing each a few minutes at the lectern to offer a quick glimpse into the immediate future in an effort to help shippers prepare their freight transportation budgets for the long run ahead.

How one manufacturer leveraged its long-term managed transportation relationship to gain access to top-of-the-line transportation management systems, carrier options, real-time cost data and end-to-end supply chain visibility.

Even with trucking volumes down in 2019, digital freight matching (DFM) remains hot on the radar of shippers as a way to secure space and improve visibility.

Opportunities lie where process weakness and lack of integration converge with transportation spend!

I realized then that the term “TMS” has gotten sticky. Between shippers, carriers, third parties and brokers, a quick investigation and some product reviews confirmed that there is confusion about what transportation management systems are and what they do.

In this webinar, Logistyx President Ken Fleming will provide insight into how shippers can use multi-carrier parcel shipping technology to achieve carrier compliance in a global, multi-carrier shipping environment.

Transportation is an extremely expensive part of the supply chain, and any potential to reduce costs and increase efficiency is a no-brainer for shippers – which is why digital freight brokerage solutions are growing in popularity.

As logistics, transportation, and the end-to-end supply chain gain prominence in the C-suite, large ERP vendors continue to enhance their supply chain management offerings to serve both new and existing customers.

Company officials said Carrier File provides shippers with a platform storing multiple years worth of internal and external data that streamlines the carrier search process to help identify and select the best available truck. And they added that with Carrier File part of the Blue Ship TMS, its employees can proactively identify areas to lessen costs and optimize customers’ supply chains.

This webinar will reveal how manufacturers, retailers, and 3PLs can utilize their own data to identify and demonstrate ROI for multi-carrier parcel shipping by leveraging state-of-the art business intelligence to increase performance.

TMS users typically see 5-15% yearly savings, according to a report from ARC Advisory Group

Chicago-based transportation management services provider Coyote Logistics, a subsidiary of freight transportation and logistics services bellwether UPS, this week introduced a new program and digital freight platform upgrades to better meet the needs and challenges shippers and carriers are facing.

Scottsdale, Ariz.-based GlobalTranz, a full-service 3PL focused on freight brokerage and technology, announced today it has rolled out a new digital freight matching (DFM) offering, entitled GTZamp (Automated Movement Planning) for enterprise shipper customers that meshes the speed and ease of DFM with enhanced, multi-movement planning capabilities.

Download this paper for an overview of Autonomous Dispatch and Routing, and learn how increasing levels of automation support and scale dispatching capabilities and create additional business opportunities.

Join Logistyx President Ken Fleming for an appraisal of multicarrier shipping, TMS solutions and the nuances of interpreting Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for TMS, without a barcode label in sight! Using case studies, review scenarios traditional TMS solutions struggle to manage, such as high volume and international shipping, and learn why parcel shipping requires a different solution and how to design your process and architecture to leverage both effectively.

Labor management systems continue their transition from engineered labor standard software systems to valuable tools that help shippers achieve their labor optimization goals.

Kenco said this new warehouse space will function as what it called a true test facility for its team of innovation specialists whom will assess value-added technology and also provide advanced visibility into various efforts focused on testing potential supply chain management solutions and technological advances outside of a live operation

The key elements of this partnership include the addition of the Emerge marketplace to the Kuebix Community Load Match, which is a single source offering focused on attractive rates and capacity opportunities through the Kuebix carrier base. The companies said that through this partnership shippers using Kuebix can obtain additional truckload capacity through the Emerge marketplace, coupled with shippers gaining access to contracted rates and the spot market through the same system interface.

Opportunities lie where process weakness and lack of integration converge with transportation spend!

The transportation management systems market is growing right along with the number of challenges that shippers face in today’s hectic freight transportation environment.