Topic: TMS

AI-driven digital freight matching platforms are transforming the brokerage landscape, helping shippers and carriers automate workflows, boost utilization, and navigate the lingering freight recession. Industry leaders say technology adoption is now table stakes, with consolidation, predictive pricing, and hybrid human-tech models driving the next wave of growth and efficiency.

As e-commerce sales surge toward $8 trillion, third-party logistics providers (3PLs) are evolving to handle higher order volumes, tighter delivery windows, and complex returns using automation, AI, and integrated warehouse management systems (WMS). By offering scalable fulfillment, reverse logistics, and real-time visibility, 3PLs help shippers of all sizes optimize operations, cut costs, and enhance customer satisfaction in a rapidly changing digital marketplace.

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.

Gartner® has just released the much-anticipated 2025 Magic Quadrant™ for Transportation Systems.

The company’s new logistics network aims to help companies of all sizes make smarter, faster decisions.

From AI-powered transportation management systems (TMS) to warehouse robotics and end-to-end automation, this expert roundtable explores how logistics and supply chain operations are being transformed by technology. Four leading analysts share insights on the current state of tech adoption—and where innovation is heading next.

You've selected your transportation management system—now comes the critical step of implementation. This column outlines three key factors that can make or break the rollout and offers practical steps to keep your operation on track.

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.

New report reveals the top challenges and opportunities that companies are facing in the material handling and transportation environment.

The company said that these new enhancements mesh what it called seamless final mile capabilities through a strategic integration with Uber Direct, modular TMS functionality, advanced Insights AI features, and flexible procurement software.  

Ready to ditch the manual operation? Here’s a look at the increasingly important role that yard management systems play in the smooth, efficient running of overall logistics operations.

Hamburg, Germany-based Körber Supply Chain Software, a joint venture between Körber AG and KKR and a provider of end-to-end supply chain software services, including software, automation, mail and parcel solutions, voice solutions, robotics, and material handling, said yesterday it inked a binding agreement to acquire Cary, N.C.-based transportation management systems (TMS) services provider MercuryGate International Inc.

The report, entitled “Divergence—Latest Third-Party Logistics Market Results and Outlook,” said that U.S. 3PL Market net revenues, which Armstrong defines as gross revenues less purchased transportation, fell 12.8%, from 2022 to 2023, to $129 billion, with overall gross revenues down 26.1% annually, and total U.S. 3PL Market revenue coming in at $299.5 billion, for 2023.

Camden, N.J.-based third-party logistics (3PL) services provider NFI acquired the freight brokerage operation of New York-based Transfix, a logistics technology services provider that streamlines shipment data to better help shippers make informed decisions to optimize time and revenues.

The 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Transportation Management Systems offers a comprehensive evaluation of leading transportation solution providers, analyzing key trends, emerging technologies, and providing actionable recommendations for optimizing transportation operations.

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.

Chicago-based Uber Freight is rolling out a pilot program based on a new scheduled application programing interface (API), which it said will represent the “first activation” of the Scheduling Standards Consortium (SSC) Technical Standard.

The new edition of the TD Cowen/AFS Freight Index, which was recently released by New York-based investment firm Cowen Inc. and Shreveport, La.-based 3PL and freight audit and payment company AFS Logistics LLC, highlighted mixed readings, as well as expectations, for truckload, less-than-truckload (LTL), and parcel activity, from the third quarter to the fourth quarter.