Transportation Management Systems

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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.

These two companies are leveraging strong industry partnerships and technology to save money, improve service levels, and streamline their logistics and transportation functions for future success.

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.

Our top supply chain software analysts share the TMS trends they believe shippers need to be paying attention to during the coming year.

Managing transportation just got harder. Here’s how TMS is proving its worth in an otherwise challenging environment.

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The future of the third-party domestic transportation management market is now centered on creating digital experiences, workflow automation, and optimizing customer and carrier focused service performance. Here’s a breakdown of what’s happening in what many call the most dynamic segment in logistics.

Entitled, Convoy Connect, company officials said that this TMS enables shippers to manage all of their existing carriers and also provide them with instant access to Convoy’s capacity with guaranteed, real-time pricing.

Supply chain software provider Manhattan Associates recently rolled out an updated release of its cloud-based Transportation Management System (TMS), entitled Manhattan TMS, which it said augments the offering’s modeling capabilities, as well as upgrades to its carrier connectivity, benchmark rating, and expanded global logistics support components.

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

For most shippers, the challenge to reduce freight spend isn’t about setting up cost-saving programs. It’s about gaining visibility into shipping data to support their decisions. Join us to learn how transportation-focused data analytics tools are facilitating easier decision making for shippers.

The air forwarders, third-party logistics (3PL) providers, drayage, warehouse and airport operators are experiencing a revolution well beyond the decade of security-focused investments that had captured so much attention. 3PL technologies for Air Cargo, Air Freight Technology Trends 2018

Our annual survey reveals a bullish outlook for continued material handling investments, with enthusiasm extending into newer technologies such as robotics as well as warehouse control system software and the closely related category of warehouse execution systems.

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 said another Chicago-based player, Echo Global Logistics, intregrated project44’s SaaS services to fully automate end-to-end management of its less-than-truckload (LTL) and Volume LTL (VLTL) shipments. This endeavor is a major part of Echo’s build out of its proprietary TMS (Transportation Management System), leveragin