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3 Ways a TMS Platform Offsets Inflated Shipping Costs

Supply Chain Collaborator

from the year before, shippers have been absorbing the costs of rising interest rates and labor costs, higher fuel costs, and soon, high tariffs on imported goods. Supply chain experts point to broader carrier relationship development as critical to surviving and remaining competitive. Up a whopping 6.2% Finding Capacity.

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

Supply Chain Collaborator

Most respondents reported already having TMS tech deployed and presumably, they’ve already captured the low-hanging fruit of savings and efficiency gains that come with automating formerly manual processes. In order to get to the next level of savings, efficiency and competitive advantage, shippers must embrace emerging technologies.

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A Great TMS Improves Order-to-Cash Lifecycle

Supply Chain Collaborator

With lean supply chain/inventory strategies and just-in-time fulfillment at the forefront of contemporary business practices, it has never been more critical to shorten the gap between purchase order and settlement.

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

Supply Chain Collaborator

Sadly, it seems some shippers may have forgotten an important truth about effective carrier relations. The shortsightedness of shippers who stopped making these efforts results in costly liabilities when lean times return. between 2014 and 2018” Worse, delays of six or more hours have risen an ugly 27.4%!

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Global Supply Chain Management: Best Practices and Trends

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As an increasing number of organizations engage with vendors on a global level to fulfill their supply chains, the need for supply chain robustness has never been so critical. The Global Supply Chain Landscape: What is the current situation?

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Top 3 Reasons Food Shippers Need Trailer Temperature Tracking in TMS

Supply Chain Collaborator

There is only one enterprise-level transportation management system (TMS) platform that offers trailer temperature tracking in real time. Enacted last year to combat food borne contamination and illness in the food supply chain, the FSMA was created to address the 48 million cases of illness which occur in the US every year.

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UltraShipTMS Integrates MacroPoint for Superior Shipment Visibility

Supply Chain Collaborator

As a transportation logistics solution platform, UltraShipTMS already provided robust functionality for ensuring supply chain visibility to its high volume shipping clients using EDI data transmission, online portals, email and other methods.