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Hidden ROI you need to know - Strategic Transportation Tech Stack

Freight Plus

Part five of a five-part series on the hidden benefits you can expect from working with a digital freight management company like Aborn & Co. Our industry is inventing new ways to share information, better tracking tools, easier ways to manage spot market transactions, and products that address numerous other important use cases.

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This Week in Logistics News (February 4-8, 2013)

Talking Logistics

Reports 2012 Fourth-Quarter and Full-Year Results. LLamasoft Introduces Supply Chain Sherpa Mobile Design and Visualization Modeling Tool. Cass Freight Index Report – January 2013. Robinson and Con-way both reported Q4 and full-year 2012 results this week. percent in Q4 2012. Con-way Inc. million, up 18.2

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This Week in Logistics News (July 15-19, 2013)

Talking Logistics

Con-way Freight Raises the Bar on Mexico Service, Adds Door-to-Door Tracking, 24-Hour Customer Resource Center, Enhanced Web Tools. Overcapacity in the global air freight market, increasing customer preference for lower-yielding shipping solutions, and a slowing U.S. UPS Announces 2nd Quarter Expected Results.

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This Week in Logistics News (December 8-12, 2014)

Talking Logistics

October 2014 Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI). s improvement of employee collaboration is just the latest in a growing trend of businesses transforming collaboration through the use of social tools. All through HANA,” SAP’s tool for rapidly managing and analyzing large quantities of information. .

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Bring Out the Best in Your Supply Chain

Kinaxis

Would your planning tool be up to the challenge? In the Fleetowner article, author Sean Kilcarr discusses a textbook example of a massive supply chain crisis: Hurricane Sandy, which devastated large parts of the United States back in October 2012. Would your tools be able to provide the information required for those fast decisions?

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Imbalanced Investments: Transportation Spending vs. Procurement Technology (Part 1)

Supply Chain Network

According to the latest American Shipper benchmark survey, transportation spending increased in 2012 – according to 75 percent of respondents – remaining unscathed by budget cuts. Shockingly, though, companies are failing to invest in the necessary procurement tools to manage spend and optimize their transportation networks.

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This Week in Logistics News (March 21-25, 2016)

Talking Logistics

Delivers Enhanced Routing and Productivity-Rich Tools. January 2016 North American Freight Numbers. The share of revenue from the unit that sells and leases postage machines is still just over 50% of the total, though that’s down from nearly 60% in 2012. percent of the value of freight to and from Mexico. in February.