Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Road freight alone accounts for approximately 7% of global CO2 emissions, with maritime and air transport further amplifying the environmental burden. Proactively adopting cleaner energy sources ensures alignment with these evolving regulations. Transparent sourcing practices build trust among consumers and investors.

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Freightos

APRIL 29, 2025

Home Meet Freightos Procure: The Next Evolution of SHIPSTA Freightos Procure rebrands SHIPSTA, enhancing procurement with market intelligence and seamless booking within the Freightos Enterprise suite, empowering shippers to manage the entire freight lifecycle efficiently. Leadership Perspective We’re not just changing a name.

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Freightos

APRIL 29, 2025

More concerning, we found that manual processes have an average error rate of 4-6%, which may seem small until you consider the impact on a $50M+ freight spend. We’re talking about solving for the entirety of the procurement lifecycle from strategic sourcing through execution and analysis.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MARCH 18, 2025

Mike is the Head of Intermodal Solutions at SONAR, the leading freight market analytics tool and dashboard, aggregating billions of data points from hundreds of sources to provide the fastest data in the transportation and logistics sector. Mike Baudendistel and Joe Lynch discuss the CPG supply chain.

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Freightos

APRIL 23, 2025

Home Introducing Freightos Enterprise: End-to-End Procurement, Benchmarking, and Management Freightos Enterprise unifies market intelligence, tender management, and shipment operations into one solution, enhancing logistics efficiency for large import-export businesses.

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Freightos

DECEMBER 19, 2023

But with alternative routes and plenty of excess capacity available, operations should continue reasonably well, and freight rates are unlikely to spike to extreme highs. 18th, 2023, Source: Marinetraffic Since mid-November multiple ships have been attacked in the Red Sea by Houthi forces in Yemen. Get Your Custom Report Now!

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Freightos

APRIL 29, 2025

Home Meet Freightos Procure: The Next Evolution of SHIPSTA Freightos Procure rebrands SHIPSTA, enhancing procurement with market intelligence and seamless booking within the Freightos Enterprise suite, empowering shippers to manage the entire freight lifecycle efficiently. Leadership Perspective We’re not just changing a name.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 2, 2024

We have benchmarked our SCI (Supply Chain Intelligence) solution; we looked at all the solutions in the industry. Show us the best way to fix the freight delays!” It started out as a traditional control tower. But then it very quickly evolved into a full intelligence platform. But it’s not just a visibility platform.

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TransAudit

JUNE 24, 2025

In today’s fast-moving supply chain environment, data is as valuable as the freight itself. Inconsistency Across Sources Carriers may use different naming conventions, billing formats, or rate structures. Lack of Verification Errors in freight bills (often 3-8% of total spend) go unnoticed.

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The Logistics of Logistics

AUGUST 28, 2023

She brings almost 20 years of supply chain and benchmarking experience to DAT, where she is focused on providing actionable insights to shippers through DAT’s Benchmark Analytics and Rateview benchmarking tools. It was founded in 1978 and has since become one of the leading platforms for freight matching and load board services.

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The Logistics of Logistics

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Brad Wheeler and Joe Lynch discuss the freight-tech dilemma. Brad serves as the Senior Director of Customer Strategy at Emerge , the leading freight procurement platform. Transforming the $800 billion freight industry, Emerge empowers meaningful logistics relationships through its award-winning Freight Procurement Platform.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Do You Have Hidden Freight Costs? Freight sourcing team article and permission to publish here provided by Katharine Barrios at xeneta.com. Freight sourcing and procurement is a critical component of the whole supply chain and is crucial to the success of the business. Use of Freight Rate Benchmarking.

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 31, 2017

There is a significant amount of angst in the transportation marketplace lately in regards to freight spend forecasts. In other words, if a planner receives multiple spot quotes for a load, the best he or she can do is a comparative analysis between the quotes without a benchmark. Technology vs. Manual Benchmarking Approach.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

OCTOBER 15, 2023

The Approach to Effective Freight Procurement by LSCMS Shippers’ Council Container shipping procurement faces a multitude of challenges shaped by global events, industry shifts, environmental mandates, and technological advancements. To thrive in this ever-evolving landscape, shippers must embrace a flexible and responsive approach.

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The Logistics of Logistics

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

About Felipe Capella Felipe Capella Co-founder and CEO of Loadsmart , a leading digital freight technology company. From digital freight brokerage and consultancy to software tools, they empower shippers, carriers, and warehouses to move more with less—increasing efficiency, reducing costs, and enhancing service quality.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 16, 2023

APQC and the Digital Supply Chain Institute (DSCI) have conducted best practice and benchmarking research on MDM. APQC is a member-based nonprofit that conducts benchmarking, best practices, and performance improvement research. For example, FourKites relies heavily on latitude and longitude coordinates for freight.

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Freightos

DECEMBER 4, 2015

The broader climate issue.and freight’s role. The emissions from freighting Shawn’s TV is a miniscule percentage of this year’s 33 billion ton cube. Finding freight’s contribution to GHG took a lot of digging. . Click the button on the right to see our sources. kg of carbon emissions. This is a big deal.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 19, 2023

Most recently, the APQC has conducted best practice and benchmarking research on environmental sustainability. For respondents at the median, 80 percent of total annual packing material consumed comes from recycled or re-used materials and 60 percent comes from renewable sources.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 25, 2024

Case-in-point: my company FourKites will collaborate with 16 other supply chain industry leaders — including BlueYonder, e2open, Oracle, Uber Freight, and JB Hunt, to name a few — as part of the Scheduling Standards Consortium (SSC). Digitize the periphery of the yard. The returns on these kinds of efforts will be swift and tangible.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Subsequently, LSS projects were developed to address waste in several key areas: contract carrier freight rationalization, ship day alignment, Asia-to-US / Asia-to-Europe container optimization, CNG truck costs and impact. While all have added value, let’s take a closer look at contract carrier freight rationalization.

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Freight Waves

JUNE 25, 2025

Truckstop emerged as a winner of the 2025 FreightWaves Fraud Fighter Awards with an innovative approach to combating fraud in the freight industry. The company’s standout solution, Risk Factors, is transforming how freight brokers identify and prevent fraud, establishing new standards for risk management across the logistics sector.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 24, 2021

Brad is Vice-President of Sales at FreightWaves , a leading freight intelligence provider, offering current digital intelligence and context to the freight community on a central platform. FreightWaves provides the ability to benchmark, analyze, monitor & forecast the $9.6T About Brad Guinane. About FreightWaves.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

MARCH 14, 2023

Rates are now starting to stabilise and for ocean freight especially, we are seeing rates closer to pre-COVID levels. Freight procurement is the mainstay of any supply chain professional but price is not the be-all and end-all. What tools we can use to benchmark ocean freight and carriers’ service reliability?

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Talking Logistics

JULY 19, 2013

Con-way Freight Raises the Bar on Mexico Service, Adds Door-to-Door Tracking, 24-Hour Customer Resource Center, Enhanced Web Tools. Source data is a combination of reference and benchmark data from third parties as well as econometric models and formulas. SAP Announces Second Quarter and First Half Results 2013.

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The Logistics of Logistics

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Andrew Semisch and Joe Lynch discuss smart freight sourcing, which starts with an RFP tool purpose built for freight sourcing. Andrew is Vice President of Commercial Development for Emerge , the leading freight procurement platform. Key Takeaways: Smart Freight Sourcing. About Andy Smisch.

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Talking Logistics

JULY 27, 2022

At a recent industry conference, a shipper asked me many questions about transportation procurement, such as, “How do you best determine how long and how often to have transportation sourcing events?” Read more Why Benchmarking is the First Step to a Successful Freight Procurement Event. The good news.

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 1, 2022

Thanks to container prices rising as much as 600%, money that could be used for advertising went to freight companies instead. 28% of global retailers have tried to find alternative sourcing options due to supply chain issues (RetailNext, 2020). Source: Consultancy.UK. Image source: Fortune. Image source: Financial Times.

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Freightos

APRIL 29, 2025

Visibility Through Volatility Mitigate supply chain disruption by synchronizing tendering, rate validation, and freight bookings. More concerning, we found that manual processes have an average error rate of 4-6%, which may seem small until you consider the impact on a $50M+ freight spend.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 29, 2015

We will then conclude the 5 main categories by featuring the top 10 freight articles of 2015. As a TMS provider, Cerasis also provides the services related to transport management: freight claims, freight accounting, carrier relations, and more. WHITE PAPER] The Complete Guide to Freight & Transportation Accounting.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 3, 2019

Sustainability is created at the source of our products, services, and consumption. Sustainability is created from Responsible Sourcing. How can you make Responsible Sourcing a Reality? If you can excite the people around you about sourcing responsibly, chances are you’ll be able to formulate a network of internal champions.

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Zipline Logistics

JANUARY 17, 2023

When you think of sustainability, you might think of CPG brands practicing ethical sourcing or using recyclable packaging. Misaligned production, warehousing, and transportation functions are also a large source of supply chain inefficiencies, and they can cost brands big in wasted resources, time, and money. . Electric Vehicles .

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Freightos

JULY 23, 2015

And it’s about to get hit by a freight train of innovation. How much do we love freight innovation? Enough to go through every single article published in the top tech blogs – Techcrunch, Verge, Mashable and Recode – since 2007 to count how often articles about logistics startups, freight or cargo were published.

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Supply Chain Network

AUGUST 6, 2012

According to the latest American Shipper benchmark survey, transportation spending increased in 2012 – according to 75 percent of respondents – remaining unscathed by budget cuts. Freight & Transportation Information Technology PaulMartyn Procurement' ‘Keep on trucking’ has a new meaning. Paul Martyn.

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GlobalTranz

AUGUST 14, 2018

Even the most robust plans for continuous improvement in the supply chain will fail without data-driven insights, so blockchain and supply chain analytics can team up to ensure accuracy in reporting, as well as ongoing benchmarking. Think about it.

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Stord

AUGUST 5, 2020

August 6, 2020 Stord is thrilled to announce our partnership with the Environmental Protection Agency as a SmartWay Logistics Company , just a few months since expanding our freight capabilities. Freight transportation is the culprit that makes up a vast majority of air pollutants and emissions in the US.

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Logistics Bureau

JUNE 14, 2021

Here at Benchmarking Success, we exist to help our customers improve supply chain performance. However, they have experienced significant difficulties in getting goods from one place to another and endured vastly inflated freight and transportation costs. Of course, the criticality of such elements is the same now as it always was.

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Logility

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Modelers generally use three methods: quotes from carriers, regression analysis , and benchmark (market) data. The third data set is benchmark or market data which is really another measure of historic data, but it has the advantage of being historic data across hundreds of companies and millions of shipments.

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