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Transforming Freight Benchmarking

Logistics Viewpoints

Emerge has an interesting new platform to deal with the problems shippers are having procuring truck capacity. It has spot procurement functionality that you would see in a transportation management system (TMS), and the request for proposal (RFP) functionality you would see in contract planning or procurement solutions.

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Top Transportation & Logistics Influencers

The Logistics of Logistics

He is also the Founder and Co-Director of the MIT FreightLab – a research initiative that works on improving the way freight transportation is designed, procured, and managed. He helps clients purposely be in control of goods and assets with Roambee’s sensor hardware, cloud data analytics, and automation. Cassandra Gaines.

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Supplier Information Challenges in the Automotive Industry

ivalua

Quite a few of our customers are located in the Detroit area where we recently hosted a networking event featuring Nexteer Automotive. lack of integration among the ERP, PLM, contract systems, spend analytics, BI, risk management, and other platforms. information storage and sharing issues. non-standard approaches to data collection.

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Supplier information challenges in the automotive industry

ivalua

Quite a few of our customers are located in the Detroit area where we recently hosted a networking event featuring Nexteer Automotive. lack of integration among the ERP, PLM, contract systems, spend analytics, BI, risk management, and other platforms. information storage and sharing issues. non-standard approaches to data collection.

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Dispelling Three Common Myths about Global TMS Deployment

Talking Logistics

The biggest catalyst for global TMS use comes from companies hungry to expand their business analytics and understand their costs, how they’re touching their customers, and how they’re interacting with their suppliers. Walter holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Michigan State University and attended The Detroit College of Law.