3PL Insights

JULY 19, 2021

July 19, 2021 — Evans Distribution Systems, a third-party logistics provider, has been recognized as a “Top 100 3PL Provider” by Inbound Logistics for the 19th consecutive year. Every year we are grateful to receive this recognition from Inbound Logistics ,” says John Evans, President & CEO of Evans Distribution Systems.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

The fundamental idea behind being an Inbound Organization is straightforward: everyone in the company must consider how their role influences the customer journey to enhance the customer’s experience. What Inbound Organizations Do. I hope you do, but the data shows that most post-sale interactions harm the relationship.

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 29, 2017

Editor's Note: Today's blog comes from Katie Cruze at considerdigital.com who give us the top 5 reasons why data quality is important. Data, for most companies, is often collected for record-keeping purposes. For many companies, managing the quality data can seem like an overwhelming task.

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FreightWaves SONAR

APRIL 16, 2024

Market Dashboard Plus is a multi-lane management tool that provides context around origin and destination capacity conditions in relation to spot and contract rates. A low Lane Score indicates the flow of capacity into a given market is inbound-centric, while a high Lane Score indicates the flow of capacity is more outbound-centric.

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GlobalTranz

JULY 8, 2016

Today, we wrap up our series on the top 5 blogs in our 4 main categories ( Freight , Manufacturing , Logistics , and Supply Chain ). Our last post covered the Top 5 Supply Chain blogs of 2016. Today's post will cover the top 5 Transportation Management blogs from 2016 so far.

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3PL Insights

DECEMBER 14, 2022

These tools give real-time visibility to various people internally and provide customers transparency over their goods while in our care. Data-driven Business Intelligence. While the WMS collects the raw data, the evans365 portal gives customers an interactive dashboard to observe trends. What metrics are important to customers?

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FreightWaves SONAR

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

And according to Inbound Logistics , “Measuring the rates being paid to the carriers against their quoted bid rates ensures carriers are honoring the rates offered in the bid. Collect data and benchmark your carriers’ performance. Collect and benchmark carrier performance data. Creating a carrier scorecard is simple.

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FreightWaves SONAR

MARCH 5, 2021

Should] you just figure out if it should be 5% or 6% [without data]?” Unlike other tools in the market, the Lane Signal considers an abundance of data from multiple sources, not just dirty data that flows through one system like other industry tools. SONAR is near-real-time data.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 6, 2023

Leverage AI to benefit from supplier community data: Building trusted relationships with suppliers is an imperative for success. When suppliers and buyers participate in transactional, collaborative, and orchestrated processes, the community generates data that is useful for all the parties involved.

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Blue Grace Logistics

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Technology Brings A New Dawn for Drayage Show Submenu Resources The Logistics Blog® Newsroom Whitepaper Case Study Webinars Indexes Search Search BlueGrace Logistics - February 29, 2024 Tom Gresham | Inbound Logistics February 2024 The drayage industry has begun to come out of the shadows.

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FreightWaves SONAR

MARCH 15, 2021

Advancements in tender data science and paid market data now power SONAR SCI (Supply Chain Intelligence) Lane Acuity Plus. In the screenshot above, you can see that the outbound and inbound stability show scores of 29 out of 100 and 21 out of 100, respectively. WHAT IS LANE ACUITY PLUS?

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FreightWaves SONAR

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The freight transportation industry has always been slow to adopt new advances in tools, software and automation. And to help carriers achieve that goal, this white paper will explore a few best practices to reduce operating costs, including: The importance of meaningful data capture. Tracking and applying equipment data insights.

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Blue Grace Logistics

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

What This Blog Is About: The difficulty of factoring in freight costs. It is vital to anticipate market fluctuations that may increase rates, causing companies to incur freight expenses that will not be recovered if they do not have the right tools to prevent that. To read the entire blog visit BlueGrace Logistics.

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FreightWaves SONAR

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

As the world of transportation continues to evolve, shippers and logistics service providers (LSPs) are effectively utilizing certain methods along with modern data platforms to meet the demands of today’s supply chains. Knowing the following key tactics and using the proper tools will help sustain long-term savings.

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Blue Grace Logistics

JUNE 13, 2022

As corporations become increasingly focused on ESG initiatives, their supply chain and logistics partners respond with tools and services designed to help them grow sustainability and other goals. Inbound Logistics. Prasad cites an example where the system’s data has enabled a driver to run the same loop for almost two years.

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FreightWaves SONAR

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Zaro Transportation offers better service and data-driven rates due to SONAR among other initiatives to include: The company needed to emphasize its value to maintain profitability during disruption. Using SONAR’s Predictive Rates tool to generate accurate shippers’ prices and offering more competitive rates to LSPs and carriers.

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Ship Monk

AUGUST 22, 2022

In our eCommerce fulfillment blog we sometimes highlight industry jargon that’s essential for every entrepreneur. Whether you do or you don’t, this blog can help finetune your understanding of what SKUs can be utilized for, how to use them to grow your business , and best practices for this crucial part of inventory management.

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EazyStock

JUNE 21, 2022

Cloud computing, often referred to as ‘the cloud’, is simply the process of running programs and storing data over the internet rather than using a local or personal server. There could be multiple reasons for this reluctance to move data over to the cloud. The transition to cloud solutions in supply chain management.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

This involves using real-time data and technology to get information about manufacturing processes when and where it is needed, in the form it is needed, to empower smart decisions about business operations. For example, analyzing real-time production data to uncover hidden inefficiencies and implement changes faster.

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FreightWaves SONAR

JANUARY 4, 2021

As reported by Inbound Logistics , “Shippers who unload efficiently and quickly without depending on driver involvement help carriers avoid poor trailer utilization or excessive trailer inventories.” Respond to issues, deviations and problems with data. Focus on dock experiences for drivers. Request a SONAR Demo.

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FreightWaves SONAR

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Freight management teams spend many resources responding to delays, issues, customer needs, data and marketing trends and shifting conditions with supply and demand. Using historical data, freight managers can identify when more inventory, human resources, trucks and revenue may be needed. That’s what happens. Download the White Paper.

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FreightWaves SONAR

DECEMBER 15, 2020

A lack of data is the absolute villain in this scenario for brokers and all trading parties. Gather data for the analysis. Additionally, integrations into telematics for real-time data or connecting via IOT-enabled sensors bridge the disparities in various network assets, including equipment and individual pallets.

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FreightWaves SONAR

MARCH 29, 2021

The action: prioritize carriers within the routing guide based on which are preferred for shipments, depending on origin/destination data. What is a routing guide : a set of rules and requirements from shippers that set rules for inbound and outbound shipping. Request a SONAR SCI Lane Acuity demo by clicking the button below today. .

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Morai Logistics

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

The Information and Communications Technology Council explains that integrating AI “enables machines or the in-build software to behave like human beings which allows these devices to perceive, analyze data, reason, talk, make decisions and act.” A predominant outcome of advanced technology is an unceasing source of Big Data.

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GlobalTranz

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

In a previous guest blog, The Rodon Group along with Rethink Robotics wrote, titled " Can Robots + Humans = The Ideal Workforce in Manufacturing? ": Robots such as Baxter can also help companies save money and increase productivity. In a recent blog post “Robots In, Humans Out, Game Over?”

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FreightWaves SONAR

JUNE 10, 2021

Measuring capacity is a key to maximizing margins/transactions for a broker, utilization for a carrier, and minimizing service and budgetary failures for shippers.The capacity trend indices show you which markets are tightening or loosening by the largest amounts by combining tender rejection rates and market balance of inbound and outbound loads.

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Transporeon

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Shippers can look at benchmarking across all modes, using Big Data for benchmarks on pricing, demand, seasonality, etc., Der Beitrag Technology Trends for More Effective Shipper-Carrier Alliances erschien zuerst auf TRANSPOREON Group Blog. The United States is just catching up to this concept—a big benefit for shippers.

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Transporeon

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Shippers can look at benchmarking across all modes, using Big Data for benchmarks on pricing, demand, seasonality, etc., Der Beitrag Technology Trends for More Effective Shipper-Carrier Alliances erschien zuerst auf TRANSPOREON Group Blog. The United States is just catching up to this concept—a big benefit for shippers.

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FreightWaves SONAR

JANUARY 13, 2021

Whether it’s blogs, emails or website copy , the better you are at communicating your ideas, the more sales you will make. . It’s all about using virtual tools to expand your network. Once your opinions and analysis are trusted, the inbound leads will start to appear. . Communication skills are the key in a sales career.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 12, 2015

Manufacturers need to focus on their core in order to stay competitive, and technological tools, such as our Cerasis Rater, a transportation management system , allow for streamlined process in managing transportation, giving back precious time, money, and focus to our manufacturing customers. The Customer Owns the Empire.

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CLX Logistics

JULY 13, 2020

So, first thing, hire a benchmarking service to provide you with the data you need. Be diligent about selecting a benchmarking service that knows and understands your freight, and has a large pool of current data. It’s going to take a combination of tools and talent. Chemical manufacturers need to be careful here, however.

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GlobalTranz

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Editor's Note: This is a guest blog from our friends at Camcode. In this blog, Camcode discusses how collaboration provides supply chain disruption to impact the future of logistics management. In this blog, Camcode discusses how collaboration provides supply chain disruption to impact the future of logistics management.

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AIMMS

JANUARY 24, 2019

Our analytics department is comprised by data scientists who work on developing AI models, as well as OR specialists who focus on Supply chain optimization, simulation and mathematical programming. Were you using other tools aside from spreadsheets, prior to using AIMMS? . I work for the analytics department within Tata Steel.

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Trinity Logistics

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

In this blog, we’ll dive into what truck detention is, why it happens, how it impacts truck drivers and shippers, and how shippers can help reduce dock delays and detention. WAITING, WAITING, WAITING… According to a recent Trucker Tools whitepaper, wait times at shipper and receiver locations have increased compared to a year ago.

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 15, 2017

. Editor's Note: Today's blog is from our friend Robert Everett who gives us some fantastic tips for managing logistics effectiveness. The latest news from the world of high technologies: Microsoft is going to store data as DNA. The tools and techniques of Six Sigma put team’s heads together and stimulate innovation.

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AIMMS

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

The use of AIMMS PRO specifically is increasing, as companies are realizing the huge benefits of providing their staff with decision support tools. In this blog post, I will share some exciting new use cases, a quick glimpse of our product and customer service goals, and a short update about AIMMS partnerships.

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AIMMS

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

The use of AIMMS PRO specifically is increasing, as companies are realizing the huge benefits of providing their staff with decision support tools. In this blog post, I will share some exciting new use cases, a quick glimpse of our product and customer service goals, and a short update about AIMMS partnerships.

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