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Echo Global Logistics goes beyond AI to drive value

The trucking industry is increasingly leveraging sophisticated new technology solutions to tackle some of its most pressing challenges. 

Echo Global Logistics, a top provider of technology-enabled supply chain management services, rejects a one-size-fits-all approach to technology. It leverages a variety of intelligence capabilities to provide shippers and carriers with solutions that meet them where they are in their technology adoption journeys.

Echo provides larger shippers or carriers...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/echo-global-logistics-goes-beyond-ai-to-drive-value

Live demo preview: EchoShip the one-stop shop

Shippers tend to have issues with supply chain visibility. Software after software makes claims about streamlining company processes and being the one-stop shop for all shipping needs. Rarely do they fully deliver on that.

Typically there are issues that stop a full integration, or payment processing still has to happen on another platform, increasing the amount of manual labor.

In case you weren’t aware, the The Future of Supply Chain event in Northwest Arkansas on May 9-10 is coming up, and...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/live-demo-preview-echoship-the-one-stop-shop

CIO’s previous roles at Echo reflect drive for innovation

Roles in finance and strategy at Chicago-based Echo Global Logistics prepared Zach Jecklin to lead technology initiatives as chief information officer.      

The leading freight brokerage and technology-enabled transportation service provider named Jecklin as its CIO in December. Jecklin, a 14-year company veteran, made his mark as a financial analyst before ascending to vice president of finance and later senior vice president of strategy. 

He credits his broad set of roles and responsibilities...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/cios-previous-roles-at-echo-reflect-drive-for-innovation

Technology combined with relationships form ultimate transportation solution

The unpredictable nature of logistics today leads too often to blind trust in technology. It’s understandable, given that transportation management systems on the market purport to offer one-size-fits-all solutions. 

However, the needs of each carrier and shipper vary drastically, so it’s illogical to expect that a TMS or mobile app would be able to resolve every transportation management-related process or issue. But the plug-and-play concepts of much of today’s freight technology leads many to...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/technology-combined-with-relationships-form-ultimate-transportation-solution

White Paper: Predictions for Trucking in 2022

Following one of the most tumultuous years in recent history, 2021 has been interesting to say the least. Through the ups and downs of what’s been a rebound year, the trucking industry already has its sights set on 2022.

What’s in store for trucking next year? No one can say for sure, but who better to ask than the experts themselves? FreightWaves partnered with Echo Global Logistics to gauge the industry’s views and expectations for what’s shaping up to be a highly anticipated period for...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/white-paper-predictions-for-trucking-in-2022

Lumber prices keep tight grip on shippers and importers

For lumber suppliers, the tight supply and mile-high price of lumber that impacted construction projects nationwide this spring continue to cause frustration. But builders and homeowners remain optimistic as prices have since fallen to $479 per thousand board feet, down 68% since peaking in May at an all-time high of $1,515. Fortune reported that prices have dropped for the ninth consecutive week.

It’s unlikely that lumber prices will return to pre-pandemic levels, but whether they will continue...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/lumber-prices-keep-tight-grip-on-shippers-and-importers

Heated produce season may further freeze capacity

This summer is shaping up to deliver a very strong season for produce. With capacity as tight as it is now, many industry leaders are speculating that any difficulty in sourcing refrigerated trailers may impact the dry van segment as well, considering the ongoing effort supply chains are making to replenish inventory amid freight network imbalances.

“Currently, there is no indication of either demand slowing or supply increasing,” said Sean Burke, chief commercial officer at Echo Global Logistics

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/heated-produce-season-may-further-freeze-capacity

White Paper: Produce Season Outlook Keeps Industry on its Feet

Many FreightWaves analysts and industry leaders are calling for a very strong produce season. Harvesting season typically spurs the elevated demand for refrigerated trailers this time of year, alongside the uptick in bottled drink consumption as Americans begin spending more time outside. But the shared opinion of many in logistics is that this could be a record year. After dealing with COVID-19 for over a year, eagerness to resume daily living, coupled with stimulus payments, have resulted in...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/white-paper-produce-season-outlook-keeps-industry-on-its-feet

LTL not out of the woods, but opportunities burgeoning

The less-than-truckload industry has proved resilient amid a pandemic and a plethora of supply chain disruptions. However, Mark Redini, senior vice president of LTL pricing and solutions at Echo Global Logistics, urges the industry not to let its guard down just yet.

“LTL carriers quickly adapted to the changes and continued working over the course of the pandemic; they never really missed a beat,” Redini said, applauding the industry’s efforts but suggesting that there’s more work to be done.

Red...

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GSCW: Echo Global Logistics looks to the future — WHAT THE TRUCK?!?

2020 dealt the transportation industry major challenges, and 2021 has compounded the problems with severe winter weather. Echo Global Logistics CEO Doug Waggoner joined WHAT THE TRUCK?!? to talk about how technology has helped people navigate the changing landscape of freight. 

Waggoner said Echo’s strategy has been to build out its own proprietary technology and it will continue to use that strategy in the future. Echo has portals like EchoShip and EchoDrive, forward-facing tech for both...

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/gscw:-echo-global-logistics-looks-to-the-future-—-what-the-truck?!?