The Future of Logistics
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All machines need maintenance: Your broker is the mechanic, not the operator
Like a mechanic, we maintain and repair moving parts of your transportation machine; we don’t drive the machine, we fix it.
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Obstacles to Implementing FreightTech
To a certain extent, if you don’t have buy-in, then don’t buy it. So many tech initiatives fail to launch because the team in charge…
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Routing guides are going digital
It is not likely that routing guides are going to become extinct, but they will be smaller, more shallow and very much digital.
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Don’t compete with noncompetes
At a high level, there are four restrictions: Don’t take our secrets, don’t take our employees, don’t take our customers, and don’t work in this…
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The dark rate: Broker-to-Carrier Contract
There is a true broker-to-carrier contract rate that reflects the model of our industry. That rate distorts the true spot rate and should account for…
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Tech in logistics: Disruption or distraction?
Is it better to be a technology company learning supply chain or a supply chain company learning to adopt technology?
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API vs. RPA — what’s the difference?
One works inside your system while the other works as an outside guest user.
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Perfectly executed routing guides fail 100% of the time
Don’t fall victim to the common pitfalls that create these gaps. Instead, develop a business continuity strategy to secure extra capacity.
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7 Steps to Strategic Partnership Between Shipper and Service Provider
Being a diversified strategic partner is essentially the holy grail of long-term partnership and relationship success.
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Real-time pricing vs. spot pricing: What’s the difference?
The most fundamental difference between real-time pricing and spot pricing is that one is by design and the other is by mistake.
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