By: Frank McGuigan, CEO 2021 will be remembered as a transformational year—especially for logistics and supply chain professionals. Despite never-before-seen capacity challenges and bottlenecks in ports around the world, the industry persevered. We are grateful to our teams, customers, and partners for a year filled with advancements and growth. Below is just a small sample…
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With capacity constraints, material shortages and other disruptions driving the new normal, supply chain leaders are trying to contain costs, mitigate risks and optimize processes. Watch the video or listen to Supply Chain Now’s TEKTOK podcast “Taking Control in a Disrupted World,” as host Karin Bursa and Ben Cubitt, SVP of Consulting & Network Services…
By: Ben Cubitt, SVP of Consulting & Network Services Over the past five years, shippers—especially consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies—have added dedicated fleets to their transportation networks to gain greater control over some volume of their freight spend. Dedicated fleets help shippers minimize reliance on the spot market with associated higher costs, as well as…
The supply chain industry faces challenges due to the ongoing pandemic, weather emergencies and other disruptions. Now more than ever, supply chain leaders need to be nimble, manage risks and have access to capacity—all while increasing efficiencies and controlling costs. Transplace’s Chief Technology Officer, Jim French, and Senior Vice President of Platform, Steve Barber, joined…
Staying on the leading edge of technology requires time and capital investments, along with innovation and a corporate culture that values iteration. The FreightWaves staff interviewed our Chief Technology Officer, Jim French, to get an inside view on high impact trends in logistics tech. He says Transplace has been increasing technology investments 25 percent each…
By actively monitoring unforeseen events like global pandemics and natural disasters in real-time, Transplace uses our advanced technology to report on supply chain vulnerabilities and disruptions in shipments, allowing shippers to make decisions quickly and efficiently. To further support shipper’s efforts to mitigate logistics disruptions, we recently developed a new breakthrough feature displaying vital COVID-19…
By: Frank McGuigan, CEO, Transplace As businesses begin to reopen amid COVID-19, we are seeing new demand patterns related to business reopen plans, seasonality in business verticals, and other COVID-19 related impacts. To bring visibility to where the market demand pattern is not following historical patterns, we will continue to support our customers and partners with…
What Is the COVID-19 Impact on Your Supply Chain? We Surveyed the Transplace Network. In early February, as news of the novel coronavirus began to break into the news cycle, the Transplace team began reporting on the impacts of COVID-19 on the global supply chain. As we provided updates in the weeks that followed, the…
Logistics industry specialists can look to Transplace’s Logistics Quarterly Market Update and Outlook Report to gain insights from Q2 2020 and an outlook for what’s to come. The report spotlights the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the global supply chain. Using proprietary analytics and benchmarking statistics from Transplace’s $9+ billion in freight-under-management, the quarterly…
By: Frank McGuigan, CEO, Transplace We continue see the COVID-19 crisis impacting business processes, consumer habits, and the worldwide economy resulting in continued disruption on most of the global supply chain. Below, you will find our most recent market update that communicates our insight into what is happening. We will continue to provide you updates…