Supply chain visibility

FourKites rolls out major update to supply chain visibility platform

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Nine out of the top 10 consumer packaged goods companies rely on the same supply chain visibility platform — and it just got a major overhaul.

FourKites, a Chicago-based provider of supply chain visibility services, on Monday announced the release of a platform upgrade that improves data integration between the wider supply chain and individual facilities.

With the new enhancements, the platform now automatically synchronizes data between shipments in transit and orders waiting in the warehouse...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/fourkites-rolls-out-major-update-to-supply-chain-visibility-platform

Project44 adds supply chain SaaS firm Turvo to partner network

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Two supply chain powerhouses just rolled their combined capabilities into a single platform.

On Tuesday, Chicago-based project44 and Bay Area-based Turvo announced a strategic and technical partnership that will integrate project44’s supply chain visibility platform with Turvo’s supply chain management software. That includes the company’s flagship collaborative transportation management system.

Turvo describes its TMS as a “cloud-based social network.” It gives freight brokers, 3PLs and shippers...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/project44-adds-supply-chain-saas-firm-turvo-to-partner-network

Freight companies begin sharing capacity data with feds

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Carriers, shippers and logistics companies have started sharing critical freight capacity information with the federal government in the first data exchange aimed at untangling congested supply chains.

The U.S. Department of Transportation announced the development Wednesday before hosting a meeting of participants in its Freight Logistics Optimization Works (FLOW) program.

If successful, DOT’s initiative would be seen as a significant step toward overcoming long-standing concerns associated with...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/freight-companies-begin-sharing-capacity-data-with-feds

FedEx invests in FourKites to build intelligent supply chain platform

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FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX) and Chicago-based supply chain visibility provider FourKites have partnered to build a global supply chain intelligence platform, the companies announced Tuesday. Under the agreement, FedEx has invested an undisclosed amount in FourKites.

The new platform, FourKites X, will aim to help large shippers and logistics providers with features like dynamic planning, real-time visibility, proactive alerts and supply chain optimization insights. FourKites customers will be able...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/fedex-invests-in-fourkites-to-build-intelligent-supply-chain-platform

Check Call with Anshu Prasad: Leaves do more than fall

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On this week’s episode of Check Call, host Mary O’Connell and Anshu Prasad, CEO and co-founder of Leaf Logistics, discuss the importance of creating a reliable transportation network and improving sustainability.

Key quotes from Prasad:

“Shippers need reliability; they need service and cost reliability. Otherwise bad things happen and you’re starting to see some of the earnings from the big companies out there reflect what unreliable transportation costs them in the last year.”

“There is another...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/check-call-with-anshu-prasad-leaves-do-more-than-fall

Telegraph CEO: How technology can bring about freight rail renaissance

Harris Ligon has great hopes for freight rail, and he thinks you should have great hopes too.

Ligon founded Telegraph, a rail technology company that has developed a cloud-based operating system serving the railroads, shippers, 3PLs and railcar leasing companies. The technology aims to streamline data from existing sources such as emails, spreadsheets, flat file exchanges and electronic data interchanges and convert that data to an API and a user interface that is flexible and usable and...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/telegraph-ceo-how-technology-can-bring-about-freight-rail-renaissance

FOSC Chat: Unifying recent acquisitions is next move for project44

FreightWaves' Grace Sharkey and project44's Eric Fullerton

This fireside chat recap is from Day 1 of FreightWaves’ Future of Supply Chain live event being held in Rogers, Arkansas. For more information and content from the event, click here.

FIRESIDE CHAT TOPIC: Connecting supply chain ecosystems.

DETAILS: It has been a busy 18 months for real-time visibility specialist project44, including a partnership with Google to create a supply chain “digital twin,” says Eric Fullerton, the company’s senior director of marketing. In this fireside chat, Fullerton...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/fosc-chat-unifying-recent-acquisitions-is-next-move-for-project44

Cracking the supply chain data code

The government typically is not the preferred place for creative ways to improve how private businesses operate, but Federal Maritime Commissioner Carl Bentzel may be changing that as he leads an effort to make freight supply chains work much better.

Bentzel has held weekly meetings over the last four months as part of the FMC’s Maritime Transportation Data Initiative (MTDI) aimed at finding consensus among various industry players on data transparency to improve cargo flow.

Importers, exporters,...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/cracking-the-supply-chain-data-code

The future is now: Applying advanced technologies to freight rail operations

Like all other transport modes, the freight rail industry has been seeking to develop advanced technologies not only to lower carbon emissions but also to further its market share. Explorations into deploying locomotives powered by batteries or hydrogen, as well as initiatives aimed at data sharing and improving network flows and supply chain visibility through improved data analysis, are just some of the actions currently underway by the freight rail industry. 

Much attention has been given to...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/the-future-is-now-applying-advanced-technologies-to-freight-rail-operations

Check Call with Ryan Rogers: Where are you now?

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On this week’s episode of Check Call, host Mary O’Connell and Ryan Rogers, CEO and founder of TextLocate, sit down to talk about the importance of visibility and why it’s so hard to attain in transportation. 

Also on the podcast is a quick rundown of 94 Logistics, a Minnesota-based logistics company that recently declared Chapter 7 bankruptcy. 94 Logistics, which specialized in final-mile delivery services, has had to shutter its doors and it’s not yet known whether its secured creditors will...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/check-call-with-ryan-rogers-where-are-you-now

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