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[WHITE PAPER] Carrier asset utilization and allocation best practices to reduce operating costs

FreightWaves SONAR

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. Industry expert guidance as a best practice.

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What data is available to track intermodal freight shipping rates

FreightWaves SONAR

One of the most popular tools that drives the supply chain to new heights is the process of intermodal freight shipping. Knowing where current intermodal freight shipping rates stand and where the trends are heading gives a substantial competitive advantage over those only using truckload services. Download the White Paper.

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Making your carrier sales team as powerful as your customer sales team

FreightWaves SONAR

In our recent white paper , we discussed the growing importance of carrier utilization. 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. This will be key in 2021.

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Manufacturing Supply Chain Constraints and How to Overcome Them

FreightWaves SONAR

Managing the manufacturing supply chain and freight markets of today requires skills, tools, applications and services that have never been utilized in the past. Seeing that trend indicates increased manufacturing or distribution activity, typical for the flurry of activity that accompanies spring. Download the White Paper.

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Freight Rates: 3 reasons shippers who predict rates reduce costs, find capacity

FreightWaves SONAR

freight market has grown in volume since the July 4th holiday, which is counter to historic trends. The FreightWaves’ SONAR data shows the Outbound Tender Volume Index (OTVI) remains up 25% year-over-year, hardly falling from its pre-July Fourth peak. HOW MUCH DO PAPER AND PACKAGING COMPANIES SPEND ON TRANSPORTATION?

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Why E-commerce Fulfillment Is Set to Move to a 2-Hour Delivery Standard & What You Can Do About It

GlobalTranz

WHITE PAPER] The Top Supply Chain Trends that Will Impact Supply Chain Management in 2018. Download White Paper. Major E-Commerce Entities Are Working to Drive Down Delivery to Less Than Two Hours E-commerce entities are not without a set of tools to achieve two-hour delivery. GET YOUR COPY HERE.

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6 Steps to conduct a freight spend analysis

FreightWaves SONAR

Download the White Paper. Descriptive and diagnostic analytics are additional analytics tools that can help. Contracted freight trends. Outbound and inbound data. . Thus, predictive and prescriptive analytics tools become useful in proactive spend management. Compare findings to industry trends.