Originally published in Talking Logistics In a survey, Talking Logistics conducted in October 2020, 91% of their 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. Yet, we all know that…
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Reimagining Transportation Procurement: Leveraging Data and Technology for Smarter Freight Decisions
After three years of pandemic-fueled disruption, the freight industry finally saw stability in 2023: a soft market with an abundance of capacity, an increase in truck driver employment, and falling truck rates that provided a window to find cost-cutting opportunities within supply chains. With the market expected to remain soft in early 2024, logistics teams…