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Four Ways a TMS Solution Leverages Predictive Analytics

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Appointment Scheduling & Dwell Times and Pickup/Delivery Locations | Dynamic premise time reporting looks at historical arrival and departure events stored in the TMS and enables calculation of the average premise time for trucks on a location-specific basis./

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3 Ways a TMS Platform Offsets Inflated Shipping Costs

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Using TMS and route optimizers to plan more efficient shipments , a shipper can significantly reduce lead times and shrink dwell times. They also avoid the chronic change orders that are a result of insufficiently robust planning and time consuming manual processes. Finding Capacity.

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How to Bend the Transportation Cost-Curve Downward

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Better scheduling of pickup/deliver appointments and dock door availability improves on-time performance and reduces dwell time for carriers who have their pick of shippers to pull for. Respecting their time with robust scheduling makes carriers more inclined to accept your tenders.

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Rising Detention Times and the Cost of Not Protecting “Shipper of Choice” Status

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ATRI reports detention times have crept up in 2019 following the historic and painful capacity crunch of 2018 during which, shippers pursued “Shipper of Choice” status with their carriers by focusing on ways to make carriers’ lives easier (like reducing detention/dwell time).

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TMS Delivers on NASSTRAC’s Five Common Sense Suggestions for Shippers

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TMS scheduling helps minimize dwell times and optimizes driver Hours of Service which makes a shipper a more attractive partner to busy carriers. TMS carrier management functions and carrier performance analytics enable a shipper to address issues early and provide insightful feedback to their carrier-partners.

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TMS Software Eases the Pain of Zero-Based Budgeting

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TMS software is proven to help reduce costs by improving lead times and pickup delivery scheduling. Decreasing dwell times, missed delivery times and other assessorial fees levied against inefficient shippers is just one example. The post TMS Software Eases the Pain of Zero-Based Budgeting appeared first on UltraShipTMS.

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Is Your Freight Spilling Millions Across the Interstate?

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Imprecise Shipment Scheduling | Dwell times, detention, long lines waiting for the warehouse to free up an available dock door. Moreover, customers have grown to expect real-time shipment tracking at every step of the way to support their just-in-time inventory strategies. This one does !