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…
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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: Wes Breyfole, SVP, Parcel Solutions As consumers embrace ecommerce shopping, supply chain and logistics leaders have a renewed focus on last-mile delivery strategies. Before the pandemic, Frost & Sullivan estimated that global logistics spending would grow beyond $10.6 trillion annually by 2020, with last-mile distribution accounting for an estimated $3 trillion of that spend….
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…
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…
In the effort to raise expectations within the logistics industry and provide an unprecedented level of service and value to our customers, we recently announced that we’ll be providing real-time visibility as a standard within our TMS solution, without any extra transactions or integration fees. In January 2020, we will begin rolling out the solution…
“Survival of the fittest” is the mantra of today’s freight market, as driver shortages, capacity imbalances, federal government regulations and robust economic conditions continue to impact transportation costs. These challenges are further being complicated by consumers demanding greater product variety and availability at the lowest price, which puts pressure on an organization’s already strained supply…
Introducing Real-Time Visibility: A Standard for All of Our Customers By: Michelle McBride, Senior Product Manager, Transplace We recently announced real-time visibility for truckload as a standard capability, without any extra transaction or integration fees, for all of our managed transportation services and Transportation Management System (TMS) customers. We are thrilled to be the first…
10 Tips for Leveraging Routing Guides By: Steve Barber, Vice President of Operations, Transplace A routing guide plays an important role in setting the strategy for carrier selection across a variety of shipments within an organization. And while there are various routing guide forms, many in the industry have switched from paper to online portals…