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Reimagining Transportation Procurement: Leveraging Data and Technology for Smarter Freight Decisions

Talking Logistics

In a survey we conducted in October 2020, 91% of our Indago supply chain research community members, who are all supply chain executives from manufacturing, retail, and distribution companies, either Agreed or Strongly Agreed that the time had come to transform the traditional transportation procurement process.

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Bridging the Supply Chain Planning & Execution Gap

Talking Logistics

Historically, there has been a disconnect between Supply Chain Planning and Supply Chain Execution processes and applications. As a result, companies tend to plan, optimize, and execute their inventory, labor, transportation, and warehousing operations separately (that is, in a siloed manner).

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Importance of Ensuring a Data Management and Supervisory Control Framework Spanning Supply Chain Execution Decision Making

Supply Chain Matters

Supply Chain Matters provides the first of a two-part market education series addressing what we term as broadening the context from warehouse control layer or accelerator to that of supply chain execution orchestration.

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Blue Yonder: 2024 Year in Review

Logistics Viewpoints

The companybelieves its Cloud warehouse execution system controls more robots than anyone but Amazon. While the revenue growth in transportation management was not discussed, their Cloud TMS business is growing. In the last six months, we have not seen a single transportation deal that does not include network capability.

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TMS+: Go Beyond Transport to Optimize Cost, Service, & Resiliency

The "TMS+" approach is more than a standalone Transportation Management System (TMS). It’s a supply chain execution technology that recognizes companies today operate as multi-party ecosystems, and that transport management activities are just one component of high-functioning supply chains.

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What Is Demand Sensing and Why Supply Chain Executives Need to Know More

GlobalTranz

In recent months, conversations about how to improve forecasting in the supply chain have focused on a subject: demand sensing. The post What Is Demand Sensing and Why Supply Chain Executives Need to Know More appeared first on Transportation Management Company | Cerasis. However, what is demand sensing?

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[PODCAST] Why Supply Chain Executives are Paying More Attention to Transportation Management

GlobalTranz

On today’s episode we share a guest podcast from our friends over at Marketscale featuring our very own “The Freight Project Podcast” host, Marketing Manager, Adam Robinson regarding how more supply chain executives are getting involved in transportation management to reduce costs and overall effectiveness.