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How to Drive Internal Adoption of Your Real-time Transportation Visibility Platform

FourKites

At its core, rolling out a real-time transportation visibility platform – or any enterprise technology, for that matter – is both a change management project and a leadership opportunity. Understand where your supply chain digital strategy is going in your company, and tightly link a visibility tool with that effort.

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Transportation Management Systems: How Can Your Supply Chain Benefit from TMS?

GoShip Blog

A transportation management system (TMS) represents digital software that helps businesses plan, execute, and optimize logistics operations. Besides, TMS quickly generates documentation that is compliant with your shipment. Transportation management systems influence the core logistics operations and the overall business model.

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More Customer Appointments with Routing Solution

Logistics Business Magazine

We wanted a more robust tool with the ability to book appointments with 2-hour time slots and optimize who, where and when a surveyor visits to carry out customer estimates,” said Lee Holmes, Transport and Logistics Director at Wren Kitchens. As the business expanded, we outgrew our legacy in-house system.

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Raben equips drivers with rugged handhelds

Logistics Business Magazine

Logistics company Raben Group chose the Panasonic TOUGHBOOK N1 for its drivers’ handheld. Thanks to them, information recorded during the transport process is automatically sent to the company’s IT systems, and data synchronization between the elements of the process takes place in real time. For its drivers, Raben Group chose 4.7-inch

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Guidance issued for dangerous goods storage and handling

Logistics Business Magazine

Four industry groups have collaborated to address the issue and produce best practice guidelines in the form of a White Paper and Warehouse Checklist. There are existing international, national and local regulations for dangerous goods in transit for various modes of transport but there is no direct equivalent for warehouses.”.

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The time to go out to bid is now

Transporeon

Rates have been rising, and some shippers have even had to cut earnings outlooks due to rising transportation costs. With shipping costs rising rapidly and capacity so scarce, companies are going out to bid for new transportation contracts now instead of waiting. Why go to market now? Last year, the U.S.

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Pitfalls of digitalisation in shipping and freight

Shipping and Freight Resource

Whether digital or manual, the business of shipping involves a lot of documentation. Or forgetting the minus in -25° C when submitting the shipping documents to the shipping line or port. The Finished Product Name given by the client in the trade documentation could be Cover Girl Continuous Color Nail Polish. Image from : APL.