Transportation Management

Business Continuity in the Age of COVID-19

April 23, 2020

Working from home, employees may be wasting time and money mailing contracts to customers, sending samples to prospects or managing even routine shipments — while businesses quickly lose enterprise visibility. A cloud-based multi-carrier management solution can help maintain centralized control.

BluJay and Loadsmart Announce Partnership to Deliver Transportation Efficiency and Visibility to Shippers

April 9, 2020

SupplyChainBrain

BluJay Solutions, a provider of global supply chain software and services, and Loadsmart, a digital freight technology company, announced a strategic and technical partnership that delivers greater transportation efficiency and visibility to shippers.

Food Supply Chain Slows Around the World on Trucking Bottlenecks

April 6, 2020

Bloomberg

Truckers hauling food are facing delays across the globe in the latest disruption to supply chains snarled by the coronavirus pandemic.

Aptean Announces the Acquisition of Paragon Software Systems

March 6, 2020

SupplyChainBrain

Aptean, a global provider of mission-critical enterprise software solutions, announced the acquisition of UK-based Paragon Software Systems, a provider of transportation management software solutions serving the food and beverage, distribution and retail industries.

Global Consumer Electronics Company Overhauls Transportation Operations

March 5, 2020

4SIGHT Supply Chain Group

Challenge: A global consumer electronics company asked its transportation department to evaluate — and potentially take over — its outsourced operations. The company’s logistics provider had grown complacent, as outdated agreement terms failed to include performance incentives.

Defining and Shrinking the Last Mile

March 3, 2020

Elite EXTRA

Fast fulfillment has transformed the last mile forever, and advanced dispatching technology is a necessity if you want to compete.

Conquering Customs Challenges Is Key in Global E-Commerce Shipping

February 24, 2020

Pierbridge

Are customs issues slowing your international shipping game?

Breaking the Cycle: How Tech Can Balance the Freight Market

February 12, 2020

Ahmad El-Dardiry, SCB Contributor

The freight industry has tools at its disposal to solve the root causes of market volatility.

Analysis

Here's Where to Invest to Keep Up With Amazon

February 12, 2020

Bruce Tompkins, SCB Contributor

Customer demand for fast and cheap delivery is forcing the marketplace to step up performance.

Analysis

Decade of the Cloud: How Supply-Chain Applications Are Maturing

February 12, 2020

Tom Singer, SCB Contributor

Cloud-based, software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions have grown from outliers to commonplace for supply-chain systems.

Transportation Management

The latest news, analysis, trends and solutions regarding transportation management systems (TMS) and their impact on supply chain management. Today’s companies are moving goods across more suppliers, vendors and customers than ever before, and transportation management is critical in the overall supply chain. New technologies are optimizing productivity, increasing efficiency and cutting costs. Learn how companies around the world are improving supply chain operations through their strategic use of transportation management systems and software.