Moving from manual management of one's transportation requirements to an automated system brings many benefits, but just any old TMS won't do.

When a supplier of agricultural products went looking for an EDI provider, it found one that matched all of its best-in-practice requirements.

United States transportation and logistics companies added 11,700 jobs for the month in July 2016, according to the latest preliminary data from the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).

The wholesale distribution (WSD) market is huge. At $4.8tr in annual revenues, WSD industry revenues are nearly 100 percent more than sales of consumer packaged goods, and slightly greater than U.S. retail sales revenues.

With the goal of building up a worldwide network of medium-sized freight forwarders, BuyCo For Growth sought a link to ocean carriers that would provide instant access to schedules, rates and other data critical to the movement of its customers' cargo.

Blount International, a maker of farm, forestry and gardening equipment, needed to get a handle on its global logistics spend. A performance-management tool from Trax Technologies cut costs and helped the company to take a long-range, strategic view of operations.

A broker of fresh fruits and vegetables was delighted when a 3PL took over everything having to do with real-time location and arrival of trucks loaded with the produce.

If our annual 100 Great Supply Chain Partners is about anything, it's about sending a giant thank-you note, in a very public way, to a business partner that has demonstrably helped your business. Whether the partner you single out for recognition is involved in logistics and transportation, technology or in some other aspect of supply chain management, their efforts helped you immeasurably while you concentrated on your core business. And they deserve a shout-out and a public salute.

Florida East Coast Railway has partnered with Logistical Labs, a provider of cloud-based supply-chain software, to expand access to EZ Buy, its online portal for intermodal rates.