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Modern Ways Technology Provides Transportation Management & Freight Spend Visibility

Intelligent Audit

It has always been essential to have visibility into freight spending. Freight audit & payment (FAP) providers have long paved the way to gaining this visibility by looking at shipping invoices and breaking down freight spend. What Is Freight or Transportation Spend Management?

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Retail Returns: The Key to Driving Business Growth

ToolsGroup

In another example, Narvar’s study on “keep the item” returns demonstrates that: 65% of people appreciate that returnless refunds save them time and money. Reports indicate that returns are higher when products are sold online, with an average return rate of 30% for ecommerce purchases, in comparison with 10% for brick-and-mortar sales.

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Making the Case for a Different Kind of TMS

3GTMS

In Making the Case , we’ll explain how a modern, feature-rich and user-friendly TMS can reduce your freight spend, improve service levels, streamline your logistics functions and give you more control over your end-to-end supply chains.

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A Guide to Freight Payment Types, Solutions & Why Shippers Use These Services

Intelligent Audit

The implications of reduced cost in just this one area of processing and freight payment management can have a significant impact on profits. But freight payment remains a very complex and often error-prone process. What Are Freight Payment Services. Freight payment service may also be known as freight audit and payment.

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Bucking the Trend in Transportation – Simultaneously Cap Rate Growth and Beat Capacity Constraints

Talking Logistics

In 2018, tender reject rates have reached as high as 25% in late July, and although they’ve fallen to nearly 14% more recently, that’s still a significant volume of freight moved via the spot market. As part of a blind study performed by UltraShipTMS, data was culled from three discrete shippers who’d been using this strategy and tool.

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What Value Are You Getting From Planning?

Supply Chain Shaman

Supply Chain Risk Drivers: A Comparison of Risk. The way to measure this is to study sensing and translation by item type: new product acceptance, competitive activity and weather events. The problem is that the acceptance of lanes by the carriers does not force the carrier to accept the freight when tendered.

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Talent-Driven Changes in the Managed Services Market

TMC

It’s an attractive combination for shippers that want to outsource the day-to-day management of their freight networks while retaining full control of key decisions. These players are still major users, but there is a significant uptick in interest from shippers with more modest freight transportation budgets.