API

It is time for brokers to leverage integrations as selling points

Connectivity has become a hot topic in the logistics industry. Shippers are increasingly embracing integrations as a way to connect with partners, save money and automate tasks. That means brokers are being pushed to up their integration game. 

Bitfreighter CEO, Brad Perling, founded the company with the goal of helping brokers scale integrations and provide the connectivity shippers crave. 

“I felt there was nobody out there that really wanted to help brokerages do that,” Perling said. “It is...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/it-is-time-for-brokers-to-leverage-integrations-as-selling-points

BigCommerce adds BOPIS for merchants

Buy online, pick up in store (BOPIS) is steadily becoming a hallmark of flexible fulfillment for merchants. Enabling the option for customers, though, is easier said than done.

On Monday, e-commerce SaaS platform BigCommerce (NASDAQ: BIGC) launched its own BOPIS offering to make the process smoother for sellers. The offering relies on a set of new and updated APIs, which merchants can integrate into their e-commerce sites to manage pickup locations and inventory at the item level, all the way...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/bigcommerce-adds-bopis-for-merchants

Convoy, J.B. Hunt y Uber Freight piden una API de programación estandarizada 

A medida que las empresas FreightTech ponen remedio a los procesos fragmentados del sector, los líderes del espacio han descubierto que, aunque luchan por la misma causa, la falta de estandarización de los datos comerciales entre los participantes de la cadena de suministro está socavando sus esfuerzos.

Uno de estos procesos fragmentados es la programación de citas de transporte.  

Según Dan Lewis, cofundador y CEO de la plataforma digital de transporte de mercancías Convoy, “La programación de...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/convoy-j-b-hunt-y-uber-freight-piden-una-api-de-programacion-estandarizada

Convoy, J.B. Hunt and Uber Freight call for standardized scheduling API

As FreightTech companies remedy fragmented industry processes, leaders in the space have found that while they are fighting for the same cause, lack of trading data standardization among supply chain participants is undermining their efforts.

One of these fragmented processes is transportation appointment scheduling. 

According to Dan Lewis, co-founder and CEO of digital freight platform Convoy, “Scheduling appointments at facilities is one of the most common activities in trucking, but it is...

What a centralized tech stack can do for your final-mile shipping

When it comes to the final mile, shipping businesses at scale have a low tolerance for inefficiency.

Traditionally, final-mile business processes have been scattered across multiple programs — one for load matching, another for interacting with customers and another for billing, to name a few. The fragmented nature of the industry has always required shippers to work with many regional carriers or owner-operators, all of which have their own procedures and technology limitations. Shippers end up...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/what-a-centralized-tech-stack-can-do-for-your-final-mile-shipping

Check Call: Electronic data interchanges not so standard

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On this week’s episode of Check Call, James Coombes, co-founder at Vector.ai, joins host Mary O’Connell to dive into a world that exists with electronic data interchanges, application programming interfaces and AI in harmony. 

KEY QUOTES FROM COOMBES:

“EDI exists so that several participants in the supply chain can communicate at a base level. There are a lot of things that exist today that make EDI a little bit more difficult. It’s brittle, expensive to set up and gets complicated, and I...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/check-call-electronic-data-interchanges-not-so-standard

Shipping tech provider EasyPost partners with last-mile firm Swyft

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If you’re a fan of cycling, Formula One or college football, you may be familiar with EasyPost.

The shipping technology company sponsors teams in each of the former two sports, and it even managed to get its name attached to college football’s Hawaii Bowl. Now, the growing company is looking to make a bigger name for itself in the arena of transportation and logistics.

Lehi, Utah-based EasyPost and last-mile solutions provider Swyft on Wednesday announced a partnership that allows shippers in...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/shipping-tech-provider-easypost-partners-with-last-mile-firm-swyft

How open API TMS systems increase efficiency and reduce bottlenecks

If you manage a large fleet, it’s likely that using a customized and powerful transportation management system is one of your top priorities.

Your company probably works with many different types of software — for load planning, accounting, ELDs, fuel cards and weather monitoring, to name a few. These are all partners your company has chosen to work with for a reason.

It has become critical in today’s competitive market to be able to unify all of your data in one place and reduce manual entry and...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/how-open-api-tms-systems-increase-efficiency-and-reduce-bottlenecks

API integrations offer pathway to compete in connected market

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The logistics industry is in the midst of a widespread technological revolution. Spurred by the 2018 ELD mandate, the logistics software space has exploded over the past few years. Thousands of new solutions have hit the market, including dozens of new load boards, forecasting services and tracking applications.

At the same time, the coronavirus pandemic sent the market into a tailspin, causing seriously strained capacity and historic rate hikes. As a result, these new-to-the-scene technologies...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/api-integrations-offer-pathway-to-compete-in-connected-market

Digital freight matching helps brokers navigate tough markets

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Automation is a hot topic across the logistics industry, promising increased profitability, greater efficiency and fewer headaches for those who turn their most tedious daily tasks over to technology. This has been especially true when it comes to freight procurement and load matching. 

A technological revolution and a pandemic-fueled capacity crunch came together to push digital freight matching into the spotlight over the past few years. The win-win solution offers brokers the ability to post...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/digital-freight-matching-helps-brokers-navigate-tough-markets

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