Today’s freight landscape is anything but simple for shippers. As demand continues to outpace capacity in many industries, the ability to manage one’s supply chain has never been more needed — but at the same time, the ability to do so is becoming increasingly difficult.
Through the rough and tumble of it all, one FreightTech provider is flipping the script.
Centerboard, a leading neutral transportation management provider, is rolling out application programming interface solutions geared...
The ongoing capacity crunch is making things less than ideal for the less-than-truckload industry, as the push for faster technology and greater efficiency intensifies.
Now more than ever, access to high-quality information into freight transportation sourcing, pricing and visibility is the factor separating leading shippers and carriers from the rest of the competition.
“The stress that they’ve endured with the pandemic followed by the capacity crunch has definitely put additional emphasis...
El pasado 3 de Diciembre se celebró el Webinar “Uso de APIs para integrar ERP con WMS y sistemas logísticos”, organizado por LOGÍSTICA360. LOGÍSTICA360 en colaboración con Cygnus Latinoamérica, celebraron...
On Friday, Grand Rapids, Michigan-based Ally Logistics took a big step toward achieving its vision to “create the ultimate freight shipping experience” with the announcement that its application programming interface, CapacityNOW, is now available to all its shippers to receive real-time domestic truckload pricing.
Dan Manshaem, co-founder and CEO of Ally Logistics, told FreightWaves that creating innovative, technology-enabled processes for handling customers’ freight was an essential part of...
Historically, large shippers have outperformed small and midsize shippers in terms of technological advancement and digital offerings due to their long-standing partnerships with legacy tech companies. As more technology providers enter the logistics space, however, these same types of technology have become available to shippers of all sizes. While access to high-tech solutions will certainly help even the playing field between shippers, this onslaught of new entrants has not entirely...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/disparate-solutions-lead-to-inefficiencies-in-e-commerce-era
With a mission to provide global logistics providers with fluid, systemized data, Vizion co-founders CEO Kyle Henderson and CTO Tyler Hughes combined their extensive history in technology product development to develop a single application programming interface to not only track shipments but anticipate potential bottlenecks.
“My co-founder and I were previously at [supply chain planning software company] ClearMetal and that’s actually where I learned about logistics,” Henderson told...
It’s not often that consumers are willing to pay more for the same service. But that’s exactly what we’re seeing when it comes to shipping — more than half of 500 survey respondents say that they would pay 10% more for packaging and shipping practices that are more eco-friendly. Even amid pandemic-induced capacity constraints and increased demand, supply chain professionals are not shying away from sustainability in logistics.
Supply chain platform Verte wants to help with those efforts. The...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/verte-partners-with-manifest-on-sustainable-supply-chain-solution
As the supply chain becomes increasingly complex, technology is growing more sophisticated to keep up. Connected intelligence company CalAmp on Thursday announced a new offering, the iOn Xtreme Temperature Tag, a smart sensor tag that can pair with a thermocouple probe to measure assets in extreme temperatures ranging from as low as minus 454 to as high as 752 degrees Fahrenheit. The new tech figures to be a boon to supply chain visibility for pharmaceuticals, vaccines and biological materials.
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Logistics payment software RoadSync announced Thursday it has raised $30 million in Series B funding led by Tiger Global with participation from Base10 Partners, Hyde Park Venture Partners and its new investor, Gaingels. The company has raised $38.3 million since 2015.
“RoadSync provides solutions that are modernizing an essential industry that gets goods into the hands of consumers every day,” said John Curtius, a partner at Tiger Global. “We are pleased to partner with an innovator in such a...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/roadsync-raises-30m-to-help-get-trucks-rolling-faster
By Omar Singh, president and founder, Surge Transportation
Do you remember studying something in school and asking yourself or your teacher, “When am I ever going to use this?” Well I asked that once of a professor when talking about a calculus class. He explained that we were not studying calculus because we were going to use it in whatever jobs we ended up having. We were studying it to learn how to solve complex, multistep problems: “I know you are not going to use the quadratic equation in...
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