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Transportation Management System: What is a TMS in Logistics? [+ Top Companies Compared]

ShipBob

Share compliance information and documentation. Execute shipments and keep track of them. Transportation management systems also enable you to automate your freight tendering process. By automatically dispatching carriers, you can significantly expedite steps such as booking and tendering of freight. Payment management.

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How Blockchain Could Create the 'Autonomous Container'

Supply Chain Brain

Swiss-based Smart Containers Group , which designs temperature-controlled containers for pharma shippers, among others, collects more than 1.2 The technology features chips that monitor temperature and humidity within a 500-meter range of an air-freight container. Our vision is of the autonomous container,” says Ettl. “It

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Transparency and integrity for your supply chain

Global Trade Management

To collect the plurality of information different technologies are used that give whole containers its own intelligence to provide additional information, their condition and environment records which can be stored and even communicate in real time. Depending on the use case an exact position of the searched objects is required.

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Firmament-Backed Envase Completes Second Transaction in October, Acquiring Tailwind Transportation Software

Tailwind

DOVER, NH, October 28, 2020 – Envase Technologies, a mission-critical software platform for the intermodal supply chain, announced today the acquisition of Tailwind Transportation Software, an industry-leading Transportation Management System (TMS) built for freight brokers, intermodal, and over-the-road trucking companies. About Tailwind.

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Minimize Fuel Cost and Delivery Time using Intelligent Clustering

Shipsy

When your logistics are backed up by an efficient documentation and tracking software, it makes the operations sturdier. Freight can be transported via different mediums, and the system should be able to assist in transporting your freight in the most feasible manner possible. Here’s how it works: . Anurupal Kapoor.