Project44 has introduced volume less-than-truckload rating APIs (automated programming interfaces) to allow for real-time volume rate exchange between carriers and their shipper, broker and third-party logistics provider customers.
Checkpoint Systems Inc., a supplier of merchandise availability systems for the retail industry, has developed two new products for distribution centers.
Analyst Insight: By 2025, issues such as globalization, social transparency, risk management and sustainability will bring new challenges to all the best procurement organizations around the world. For diverse suppliers, these changes will pose new challenges, while bringing new opportunities for those with a vision for the future. - Angie Li, Partner; Curtis Simpson, Manager; Kirsty A. McNally, Manager, all with Advisory Services of Ernst & Young LLP
After years of historically low interest rates, the Federal Reserve has started to execute on its strategy to raise rates. As a result, procurement teams will need to scrub their policies and plans to find interest rate sensitivities in a way they haven't in almost a decade.
