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Bucking the Trend in Transportation – Simultaneously Cap Rate Growth and Beat Capacity Constraints

Talking Logistics

If you’ve ever paid $10 for an Uber ride to the cocktail lounge in the evening and then a “surge priced” $50 for the same distance Uber ride back to your home only a few hours later around closing time, you understand the dynamics troubling shippers in today’s capacity constrained transportation market.

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Private Investors Looking to Capitalize on Nearshoring Trends Turn to Mexico

Blue Grace Logistics

The nearshoring trend is driving growth at privately held companies looking to expand into Mexico, such as third-party logistics provider BlueGrace Logistics and contract electronics manufacturer MacroFab Inc. That trend is not changing—it’s just getting stronger,” Mr. Harris said of nearshoring to Mexico. Canada and Mexico.

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How to Navigate Your Supply Chain During Market Swings

Blue Grace Logistics

How to Navigate Your Supply Chain During Market Swings Show Submenu Resources The Logistics Blog® Newsroom Whitepaper Case Study Webinars Indexes Search Search BlueGrace Logistics - November 21, 2023 Market conditions play a crucial role in shaping challenges professionals face when managing their organization’s supply chains.

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LLMs, Optimization and Automation: Supply Chain’s Defenses Against Market Swings

Blue Grace Logistics

It can be a direct reflection of current market trends, as many publicly traded companies operate within the global supply chain. By harnessing the power of LLMs, supply chain professionals can: Enhance demand forecasting: Predictive models can analyze historical data and market trends to provide more accurate demand forecasts.

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Nussbaum Transportation Services streamlines quotes with SONAR

FreightWaves SONAR

View the Full Case Study. Today, top uses of SONAR at Nussbaum include: Daily updates to show capacity changes in the market. Future deployment will use APIs to capture data and analysis from SONAR and apply the information to identify trends within Nussbaum’s existing, branded systems to boost all back-office functions.

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How We Use Data to Better Plan for Produce Season

FreightWaves SONAR

This pulls the capacity from not only those direct markets, but surrounding areas as well. Both markets see decent amounts of produce, but only one sees the wide swings in freight rejection volatility due to disparities in capacity. To see how other organizations are implimenting SONAR, check out case studies here.

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Big M Transportation manages a 300+ fleet and helps get freight from A to B at a better price via SONAR

FreightWaves SONAR

View the Full Case Study. Michael founded the compan y in 2000 and today, the brand offers a 400 asset fleet , 50+ power-only fleet, more than 1,300 trailers & 8,000+ Carrier Partners and an impressive business case to any company looking for more capacity in today’s market. View the Full Case Study.