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This Week In Supply Chain Management Tech April 4 2023

Supply Chain Matters

Four Kites and BuyCo Partner to Provide Ocean Freight Management Supply chain end-to-end visibility Cloud platform provider Four Kites and BuyCo , an ocean container shipping platform have announced a strategic partnership to provide Fortune 500 shippers with broader visibility and control throughout the entire container shipping process.

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How to Be a Preferred Shipping Customer: Strategies for the Coming Capacity Shortage

Talking Logistics

Freight companies are eventually going to face severe challenges finding drivers to get your shipments where you want them when you want them there. Customers with a strict ‘procurement mindset’ overlook important factors like consistency, overall experience or past performance. On the surface, this sounds like a problem for carriers.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 29 – May 3, 2019)

Talking Logistics

Indago is a Latin word that means “to investigate, search out, try to find/procure by seeking.”. Moving on, here’s the supply chain and logistics news that caught my attention this week: Amazon’s Freight Push Rattles Logistics Sector (WSJ – sub. Amazon the Freight Broker.

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The Legal Implications of Transport Visibility is NOT Good News for Truckers

NC State SCRC

The biggest issue today that shippers have to worry about is freight loss claims, personal injury, and of course, liability! Maryland has a cap on non-economic damages, but is one of very few states with a cap. What are the biggest concerns in times of claims, injury, and documentation of claims?