Transportation Management

Saddle Creek Expands Parcel Analytics Reporting Suite, Increasing Visibility for Parcel Shippers

August 24, 2021

Saddle Creek Logistics Services, an asset-based third-party logistics provider, announced that the company is expanding its parcel analytics reporting suite to include a time-in-transit dashboard.

Six Elements Retailers Should Have in Place for Peak Season

August 20, 2021

Kamran Iqbal, SCB Contributor

Even with the best intentions, many retailers are finding themselves jammed by ongoing supply chain and logistics constraints.

Case Study

A Venerable Fashion Retailer Embraces Modern Supply Chain Management

August 4, 2021

SupplyChainBrain

Fashion label Marc O’Polo sought to eliminate manual data management and lay the groundwork for an omnichannel retailing strategy, in support of both stores and online sales.

Case Study

Real-Time Climate Tracking Helps Food Distributor Cut Waste

August 4, 2021

SupplyChainBrain

Losing too many perishable loads to variations in truck temperatures, Dot Foods Inc. sought a transparent solution to monitor its products in transit.

Leaf Logistics Launches Leaf Adapt to Help Shippers Navigate the Transportation Market

August 2, 2021

SupplyChainBrain

Leaf Logistics, a data-driven transportation platform, announced the launch of Leaf Adapt.

Startup Couriers Snatch Toehold in Shake-Up of the FedEx Era

July 22, 2021

Bloomberg

Surging e-commerce is generating more package deliveries than giant couriers can handle, but the logjam is spawning startups with new ways of speeding deliveries.

Three Trends Shippers Can Expect Yet This Year

July 5, 2021

Oleg Yanchyk, SCB Contributor

While Covid's shipping woes look to be reaching a plateau, businesses are still working hard to ensure they’re in the best position to recover and handle any unexpected logistics challenges.

Alpine Investors’ ASG Acquires Trucker Tools

June 23, 2021

SupplyChainBrain

ASG, a portfolio company of Alpine Investors that buys and builds vertical SaaS companies, has announced that it has acquired Trucker Tools, a digital freight management platform that provides capacity management, predictive freight matching, automated booking, real-time GPS-based visibility and digital workflow solutions for the transportation industry.

Tackling the Challenge of Route Planning in a Global Pandemic

June 16, 2021

Dan Khasis & George Shechegolv, SCB Contributors

The act of route planning in a pandemic can be devilishly complex.

How to Ensure Freight Bills Are Correct and Paid Quickly

June 9, 2021

Roberta Tamburrino & Chet Richardson, SCB Contributors

There’s good reason that freight payment is considered to be the brown corrugated box of the supply chain industry

Transportation Management

The latest news, analysis, trends and solutions regarding transportation management systems (TMS) and their impact on supply chain management. Today’s companies are moving goods across more suppliers, vendors and customers than ever before, and transportation management is critical in the overall supply chain. New technologies are optimizing productivity, increasing efficiency and cutting costs. Learn how companies around the world are improving supply chain operations through their strategic use of transportation management systems and software.