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Transportation Management System: What is a TMS in Logistics? [+ Top Companies Compared]

ShipBob

Additionally, you’d want to keep track of whether those deliveries are taking place as planned or if there are any delays so you can quickly jump in with a solution. That’s where transportation management systems, or TMS, comes in. What is a transportation management system (TMS)? Forecast and plan transportation needs.

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COVID and the Case for Digital Standards

Supply Chain Brain

The path forward for global container shipping. Container shipping has a paper problem, and it’s never been more obvious than in 2020. The pandemic has exposed the shipping industry’s continuing dependence on printed documentation. COVID-19 has put unprecedented strain on the world’s supply chains.

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How Blockchain Could Create the 'Autonomous Container'

Supply Chain Brain

Swiss-based Smart Containers Group , which designs temperature-controlled containers for pharma shippers, among others, collects more than 1.2 The technology features chips that monitor temperature and humidity within a 500-meter range of an air-freight container. Our vision is of the autonomous container,” says Ettl. “It

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Transparency and integrity for your supply chain

Global Trade Management

Who is responsible for the transport damage, who pays the cost of lost production? To collect the plurality of information different technologies are used that give whole containers its own intelligence to provide additional information, their condition and environment records which can be stored and even communicate in real time.

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Firmament-Backed Envase Completes Second Transaction in October, Acquiring Tailwind Transportation Software

Tailwind

DOVER, NH, October 28, 2020 – Envase Technologies, a mission-critical software platform for the intermodal supply chain, announced today the acquisition of Tailwind Transportation Software, an industry-leading Transportation Management System (TMS) built for freight brokers, intermodal, and over-the-road trucking companies.

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Minimize Fuel Cost and Delivery Time using Intelligent Clustering

Shipsy

When your logistics are backed up by an efficient documentation and tracking software, it makes the operations sturdier. Freight can be transported via different mediums, and the system should be able to assist in transporting your freight in the most feasible manner possible. Here’s how it works: .