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Walmart Lowers their Shipping Requirements, but their Suppliers Still Struggle

Logistics Viewpoints

Walmart fines suppliers whose goods arrive late or who have not shipped everything that they committed to ship. Uber Freight is a major provider of managed transportation services. If a company short ships TVs, they are fined more than if they short ship soup, for example. Proving that it arrived in-full is.

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Kimberly-Clark’s Digital Transformation of Shipping

Logistics Viewpoints

Weisenberger is leading their digitally enabled shipping initiative, she works in distribution operations rather than transportation. FourKites is a leading provider of real-time transportation visibility solutions. Not surprisingly, many of FourKites’ users work in transportation operations.

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?Best Practices to Improve OTR Transportation

GlobalTranz

Managing OTR transportation through disruption is a complex process. We’re sharing seven best practices to improve OTR transportation management, enabling shippers to stay competitive in the face of disruption. Analytics provides visibility into your transportation network and operations. Across OTR Transportation Modes.

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The Importance of Transportation Visibility

Logistics Viewpoints

I am working on my latest Transportation Execution and Visibility Systems study, which looks at the total size of the market, the forecasted growth through 2025, and the leading suppliers across a number of categories including industry, region, customer size, and mode. Transportation visibility is clearly not only for trucks.

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A New Era in Transport Logistics with Big Data and Self-Driving Trucks

Logistics Viewpoints

Fuel prices and a shortage of drivers are putting transport logistics under immense pressure. The biggest challenge in the transport sector today: there just aren’t enough drivers. Big data for real-time optimizations in transport logistics. Which truck should be used for transportation? Look at the big picture.

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Top Suppliers of Transportation Execution and Visibility

Logistics Viewpoints

When it comes to executing mode-specific freight moves from origin to destination efficiently, reliably, and cost-effectively, transportation execution and visibility solutions play a critical role. Transportation execution solutions allow shippers to connect to multiple carriers and then tender, track, and pay in the system.

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Transportation Strategies for Continued Success

Logistics Viewpoints

The three traditional methods are the use of a transportation management system (TMS), transportation execution system (TES), and managed transportation services (MTS). A TES is generally mode specific and lack optimization capabilities, but for shippers with simpler transportation requirements, that is often all they need.