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What is Transportation Management Software?

Trinity Logistics

The term TMS is short for Transportation Management System. This technology allows companies to manage their transportation in one place. Transportation Management software offers you a way to view insightful data, gain visibility, and better manage all the moving parts in the shipping process. How much visibility do you have?into?your

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Beyond data: Supply chain intelligence offers pathway to reduced spend, improved relationships

FreightWaves SONAR

The platform works to provide logistics leaders – including transportation planning, procurement and finance teams – with the information they need to balance the optimization of rates and tender reliability in the present and create a game plan for the future. Lanes that are priced below the market tend to have lower compliance rates.

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20 Years of Outsourcing Come Back to Haunt Boeing

Logistics Viewpoints

Boeing is now a case study in how not to outsource a supply chain. On February 6 th , the National Transportation Safety Board released a report saying that missing bolts were the likely cause. These suppliers, in turn, outsourced various parts of the modules they produced to their suppliers.

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5 Reasons How RFPs Help in Selecting the Right Logistics Technology Platform For Your Enterprise-Level Business

Locus

However, with a wide variety of dispatch management, transportation management (TMS), or logistics software providers, this makes the selection process quite challenging. More and more companies are looking to digitalization of their end-to-end logistics operations for high efficiencies at optimal costs.

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The 3 Pillars of Supply Chain Management (And Why Their Alignment Matters)

Logistics Bureau

In this case your supply chain service policy will need to support that promise , perhaps by specifying automatic use of expedited last-mile transportation as a response to upstream supply delays. Costs associated with transportation. Procurement costs. Avoid the need for excessive internal transportation.

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Top Talking Logistics Posts & Episodes (Q2 2018)

Talking Logistics

Continuous Pool Optimization – Putting Creativity to Work in Transportation. BASF Video Case Study: The Value of Real-Time Freight Visibility. Transportation Spot Market Inversion. Transportation Spot Market Inversion. Leverage Technology to Succeed in Today’s Transportation Market. Big Data in Logistics.

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Top Supply Chain Publications Recognize BlueGrace Logistics as Dominant Provider in 2022 Rankings

Blue Grace Logistics

Case Study. We cater to LTL and Truckload supply chain strategies using best in class technology and procurement capabilities, always looking to add value regardless of market conditions,” said Bobby Harris, Founder and CEO of BlueGrace Logistics. BlueGrace Recognized as Dominant Provider Show Submenu Resources. Whitepaper.