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Freight Brokerage Tech: To Build or Buy? That is the Question.

Parade

In a recent article, Peter Rentschler, CEO at CarrierDirect, discussed why freight brokerages should focus on better utilizing their existing Transport Management System (TMS) to increase operational efficiency, rather than investing in upgrading their systems or purchasing something new. There's nothing to buy. The question is: how?

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Freight Brokerage Tech: To Build or Buy? That is the Question.

Parade

In a recent article, Peter Rentschler, CEO at CarrierDirect, discussed why freight brokerages should focus on better utilizing their existing Transport Management System (TMS) to increase operational efficiency, rather than investing in upgrading their systems or purchasing something new. There's nothing to buy. The question is: how?

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Freight Brokerage Tech: To Build or Buy? That is the Question.

Parade

If you are a business owner or member of the leadership team, you’ve probably already asked yourself this question: Should I build these tech solutions in-house or should I buy them? There's nothing to buy. Just because tech presents excellent opportunities for your brokerage, doesn't mean you have to become a tech company.

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Rail Logistics Moves Ahead

Logistics Business Magazine

The Purchase & Tender Management platform was the first solution on the market in 2020 and is a marketplace for conventional rail freight transport. By replacing telephone, fax, Excel and email, Rail-Flow reliably simplifies, accelerates, and documents processes.

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Time To Value And Its Importance For the Last Mile

Locus

Before that, he wanted to purchase a pair of shoes from a nearby store. The shopkeeper presented him with two sets of Nike shoes. Time to value is the time customers spend to derive value from the purchased product. This time between purchasing the shoes and deriving value from them is what we call business as the time to value.

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BFS Continues Improving their Services for the Excellent Support of Customers

Airfreight Logistics

Last year, the company purchased and installed additional cutting-edge tools and equipment to increase cargo capacity and to provide more effective services for customers. Apart from investing in storage equipment, BFS has purchased other tools to help speed up their processes. ” Making Processes Faster and More Efficient.

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Demand forecasting challenges – how to deal with fluctuating demand

EazyStock

Customer behavior continues to be erratic as buying habits reflect current events and news stories rather than actual needs. It’s vital to maintain excellent supplier relationships. As a first step, if you have access to historical data, look for a sales period with similar trends and market dynamics as the present day (if possible).