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The Year Ahead with Doug Waggoner

The Logistics of Logistics

Doug is the CEO of Echo Global Logistics , a leading provider of technology-enabled transportation and supply chain management services. From 1986 to 1998, Waggoner held a variety of positions in sales, operations, marketing, and engineering at Yellow Transportation before becoming Vice President of Customer Service.

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LTL Industry Trends and Tips for 2022

GlobalTranz

It covers macro trends in the LTL, Truckload and Managed Transportation Service sectors and the lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Cloud-based transportation management platforms help digitize operations to rate, book, track and manage LTL in one solution. Managed Transportation Services (MTS) interest remains strong.

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Kleinschmidt EDI Services Now Available in Web-Based Tailwind Transportation Management System (TMS) Software

Tailwind

Tailwind TMS with Kleinschmidt EDI opens up new business for small to mid-sized freight transportation companies without a hefty price tag . By leveraging Kleinschmidt’s decades of freight transportation and logistics EDI experience , complex onboarding of a new EDI trading partners becomes streamlined and simple. .

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Getting Ready for 2017: Reflections on Telling Lies

Supply Chain Shaman

To gain competitive economies of scale and drive the segmented response, the back office operations–procurement, manufacturing and transportation–are automated and effective. This was the lie spun by Gartner in 2002. Each year we take the best-read blog posts and make a softcopy book. There are three problems.

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Load Tracking Now Available in Tailwind TMS with e4score Integration and Partnership

Tailwind

June 24, 2020 – Tailwind Transportation Software is pleased to announce a new partnership and technology integration with e4score. EZCheck-In is a win-win gamechanger,” says EZCheck-In user, Frank Matarazzo, CEO Fusion Transport. – ### – About Tailwind Transportation Software Ltd. No Big Installation Charges.

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Infor’s Acquistion of GT Nexus: If I Had a Magic Wand

Supply Chain Shaman

Founded in 2002 under the name of Agilisys, Infor rebranded in 2004. In the period of 2002-present, the company acquired/aggregated many applications. GT Nexus is one of the strongest providers of transportation visibility for the global ecosystem. In 2014, SAP posted revenues of 19.5B$ and Oracle with 38.3B$. It is clear.

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Seeing Beyond the Firewall

Supply Chain Shaman

Since most companies invested in the automation of the enterprise, not the value network, visibility within the company and the transportation network is a strength. The process industry’s reliance on the 3PL transportation model is a similar dilemma. The Gartner vision for ERP II in 2002 was destructive.