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A Transportation Management System (TMS) empowers logistics managers to optimize freight costs, improve visibility, and standardize processes while enhancing customer experience and operational efficiency. By leveraging automation, carrier management, reporting analytics, and sustainability tracking, a TMS helps companies scale, reduce costs, and gain actionable insights for smarter, data-driven transportation decisions.

Modern supply chain management (SCM) software is transforming logistics with real-time visibility, AI-driven decision-making, and seamless integration across WMS, TMS, YMS, and ERP systems. These intelligent platforms help companies boost agility, optimize operations, and respond instantly to disruptions, delivering measurable ROI and improved supply chain performance.

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems are evolving rapidly to meet the demands of modern supply chains by integrating AI, edge computing, and advanced smart technologies. These systems are bridging the gap between traditional supply chain management (SCM) modules and best-of-breed solutions, offering real-time, data-driven decision-making.

E-commerce demands, labor shortages and the need for space optimization are driving demand for more warehouse automation. Companies are investing in robotics, IT systems and other technologies to boost speed and efficiency. Our 2025 Industry Outlook study reveals how these trends are shaping spending and priorities in the materials handling sector.

Effective transportation management involves optimizing carrier selection, order processing, shipment planning and execution, tracking, billing, and performance analysis to minimize costs and enhance efficiency, whether insourced or outsourced.

Amid shifting trade requirements, evolving tariffs, and the threat of trade wars, shippers are leaning on global trade management (GTM) solutions to automate compliance and navigate an increasingly unpredictable business landscape and vendors are responding to their needs.

Explore unconventional practices in distribution centers, highlighting how some seemingly odd methods can be effective or even become best practices depending on context and operational needs.

Changing customer expectations, increased competition, and a focus on sustainability are all driving shippers to rethink their transportation strategies. Transportation management systems are helping shippers streamline their logistics operations and manage this still highly uncertain logistics environment.

This year’s Supply Chain Outlook Virtual Summit gives attendees the strategies, technologies, and automation tools required for ongoing success in modern logistics, transportation, and supply chain management environments.

Supply chain management applications have helped transform how companies operate and promise to be even more transformative in the coming years.

While it was once thought that a WMS, TMS, or inventory management system created as part of an ERP developer’s broader software package was simply “good enough” for certain shippers, these applications have since become more feature-rich and able to meet the needs of a larger swath of shippers.

As the days of slow, invisible supply chains that “worked behind the scenes” continue to fade in the rearview mirror, companies are improving their demand forecasting, gaining real-time visibility across their networks and streamlining their operations—and its software that makes that all possible.

In this annual event, we’ve gathered four top supply chain technology analysts to discuss how some of the latest software, automation, and robotics innovations are being put to work to help logistics professionals streamline their operations to gain ground in 2024.