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CFO Beating You Up Over Rising Freight Costs? Hit Back with a TMS

Talking Logistics

These solutions, when properly implemented , routinely achieve automation levels as high as 80-90% for critical logistics processes like rating, routing, tendering, spot bidding, carrier management, freight audit/settlement and more. There will definitely be more recessions as well as more periods of expansion.

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The Best is Yet to Come with Transportation Management Systems

Talking Logistics

I conducted my first research study on transportation management systems (TMS) back in March of 1999. Although TMS solutions had already been around for some time, the emergence of the Internet and the dotcom era opened a new and exciting chapter in the market. That’s a great question, which we plan to address in more detail in our research.