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Freight Costs: 5 tips to get the biggest bang for your buck

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Measuring performance with transportation KPIs and freight data is getting easier. Freight management parties can rely on these tips to recognize and respond to transportation budget limits. Transportation management depends on historical and real-time data. Think about this.

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Freight broker prospecting tips: Five tips for video sales calls

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Here are five freight broker prospecting tips from the TV production crew at FreightWaves to help you out with looking and sounding your best on video sales calls. . 5 Freight Broker Prospecting Tips Using Video Sales Calls. As with most things, in these freight broker prospecting tips, it’s all about giving your best face forward. .

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4 Tips for carriers to maximize fleet asset utilization using data

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Capture and analyze data inside and outside of your network to benchmark performance. The biggest barrier to efficiency in supply chain agility rests with an inability to see, capture or analyze freight data. There are numerous data providers in the world, but the question becomes, “what does an organization do with that data?” .

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10 shipper of choice tips to aid in securing capacity and carrier relationships

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Here are 10 shipper of choice tips to help enterprises secure capacity and improve relationships with carriers, not to mention transportation brokers. Another of the shipper of choice tips is that an enterprise must stand out from its competition. Respond to issues, deviations and problems with data.

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Trade agreements and logistics data: why proactive planning always wins

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Reaching mutually beneficial service level agreements (SLA) or trade agreements depends on the access and utilization of current logistics data and a decent amount of preparation. Far too often, there is a severe lack of real-time logistics data to work with during this process. Download the White Paper.

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[WHITE PAPER] How to measure freight data analytics value and why backtesting proves it

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In other words, supply chain leaders need to validate and measure the success (read “accuracy”) of data source analytics and how well they stack up to the observed market conditions. A few tips to measure the validity and accuracy of analytics metrics. Request a SONAR Demo.

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LTL Freight Rates: Using data to improve annual contract negotiations

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With the proper use of data and freight analytics , contract procurement and securing capacity can be enhanced. The incredible insights that accurate data has to offer combats volatility and unearths a clear understanding of what’s actually happening in the market. Those are the founding principles behind SONAR SCI Lane Acuity.