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One big roundabout with Leaf Logistics’ Anshu Prasad

5 October 2022

brokers gathered around computers in Halloween Costumes

On this week’s episode of Check Call, Anshu Prasad, CEO and co-founder of Leaf Logistics, joins FreightWaves host Mary O’Connell to dive into carrier compliance and the role of technology within it.

Key quotes from Prasad:

“At the end of the day, carriers agreeing to do work are driven by if what they’re being asked to do works for them. You can get a false signal by thinking, hey, the carrier is complying. The carrier just might be desperate or really unsure about what next week is going to...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/one-big-roundabout-with-leaf-logistics-anshu-prasad

Check Call: A higher level of service

9 November 2021

Hot Takes

Turning and burning, these wheels don’t quit moving. Stuck trying to get a carrier to go to a certain market but you have another shipper within about 100 miles from there? I smell a continuous move in your future. Continuous moves are a result of stringing multiple loads from one or more shippers together, which allows you to negotiate a slightly better rate.

For example, if you have a shipper that has a load from Bardstown, Kentucky, to Fayetteville,...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/check-call-a-higher-level-of-service

Transplace opens Platform Services to SAP, Oracle, JDA

2 July 2020

Transplace announced this morning, July 2, that it has opened up its Platform Services, which include analytics and benchmarking tools, a command center with real-time visibility and optimization, and network collaboration with other shippers, to customers who don’t use Transplace’s transportation management system (TMS).

Shippers that use SAP, Oracle, JDA and other TMS or enterprise resource planning systems to manage their supply chains can now feed their data into Transplace’s Platform...

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/transplace-opens-platform-services-to-sap-oracle-jda