managed transportation

Transplace acquires consulting firm LeanCor Supply Chain Group

Tuesday morning, Transplace, a leading managed transportation and logistics services provider, announced the acquisition of LeanCor Supply Chain Group, a Florence, Kentucky-based consulting firm focused on end-to-end supply chain consulting, training, solutions and lean manufacturing principles.

LeanCor was founded in 2005 by Robert Martichenko, a recognized expert in lean principles, and grew to more than 100 employees. The deal was Transplace’s third this year, following the acquisitions of...

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Transplace opens Platform Services to SAP, Oracle, JDA

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...

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TW Metals deal highlights GlobalTranz’s managed transportation capabilities

Last week, GlobalTranz, the Phoenix-based, technology-enabled 3PL, announced that it had added TW Metals as an important new customer of its Managed Transportation Solutions division. GlobalTranz reported $1.5 billion in gross revenue in 2019 and has been a prolific acquirer of both logistics and technology companies, completing 11 deals in the past few years.

TW Metals is a specialty metals distributor serving clients like aircraft original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), high-end motorsports,...

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