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Data Quality: Your Digital Transformation Depends on It

Logistics Viewpoints

For my company FourKites , quality data is core to everything we offer customers, from providing real-time transportation visibility to a host of more advanced data science-based capabilities, such as our patented methods for predicting ETAs for that freight with incredible accuracy.

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This Week in Logistics News (October 1-5, 2018)

Talking Logistics

For Cloud Logistics, this acquisition will help the company expand its solution footprint (which today is mostly over-the-road and intermodal transportation) and grow its geographic presence beyond North America. This brings the total capital invested in the company to over $90M.”.

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This Week in Logistics News (September 14-18, 2015)

Talking Logistics

FedEx to Increase Shipping Rates for Express, Ground and Freight Services. Final rule for electronic logging devices is pushed back to end of October (Logistics Management). M33 Integrated exemplifies the convergence taking place in the industry — namely the convergence of technology, managed services, and consulting.

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Canadian Shipper: Freightera has a Plan to become the Amazon of the Freight Industry

Freightera

The story is written by Dan Goodwill, one of the top journalists and leading experts on freight transportation in North America. Freightera is one of the only companies that has created a fixed cost model with data directly from carriers. We are thinking about a fully integrated global marketplace,” states CEO Eric Beckwitt.

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6 Transportation Management Trends for 2016

GlobalTranz

Outsourcing of Freight Data and Payment Management. Historically, the transportation management system of a given logistics provider has been the sole resource and method for data processing and managing the payment of all fees, duties, tariffs, and other charges for a shipment.