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What is Digital Freight Matching (DFM)?

What is Digital Freight Matching (DFM)? In this clip, Chris Arredondo of Cargo Chief explains the early days of DFM, were parsing capacity emails to try to make an actionable list to match capacity with freight. Arredondo explains, …

October 7, 2022
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TIA 2017: How to get the most out of attending the show

This year, the TIA conference is taking place at the Red Rock Casino Resort & Spa, in Las Vegas, Nevada.  It’ll run April 5th through April 8th, and the trade show floor is completely sold out – meaning a packed conference for all …

April 3, 2017
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3PL Software– Grow your business and set yourself apart from the crowd

A Transportation Management System is an integral part of the freight brokerage business. More often than not, a good TMS is the deciding factor of who wins and who loses in this industry. Tools have been essential to humanity since the …

March 23, 2017
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Managing your Truck Loads the Smart Way

You’ve probably heard the phrase “work smarter, not harder”. You also probably apply that to quite a few aspects of your life. That kind of thinking applies to freight brokerages, too.  Particularly when it comes to managing your …

March 16, 2017
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How to optimize your LTL capabilities as a 3PL provider

You have a sales team (however large or small it might be), whose sole purpose is to source and book shipments for your freight brokerage. They call the customers, they get quotes for the customers, they figure out rates and services for …

March 8, 2017
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Supply Chain Optimization for Freight Brokers– a quality TMS is your best friend

When it comes to the world of freight brokerage, margins are thin on the best of days.  Though working hard to achieve efficiency (and to keep operational costs down) is crucial to success, supply chain optimization (for freight …

February 22, 2017
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Efficiency, Margins, and Profit: What your third-party logistics company needs from its TMS

In the Less-Than-Truckload world, businesses succeed on razor thin margins. As Jeff Bezos once said, “Your margin is my opportunity.” To prevent your competitors from seizing the opportunities in your margins, you need an efficient, …

February 14, 2017
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Value vs. Cost– What’s the best 3PL software for the money?

Looking for a new third party logistics software can be a headache, especially once you start comparing the pricing.  What’s worth paying more for?  What’s not? What’s worth paying for at all?  When it comes to the 3PL …

January 25, 2017
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How to be a Freight Broker who kicks butt and takes names

Let’s talk about how to be a freight broker who has carriers and shippers alike beating down their door for business. It’s an unfortunate truth of our industry that quality can vary widely from one freight broker to the next. It’s not …

January 9, 2017
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Do you know what you don’t know about your carriers’ insurance?

It may seem obvious, but when you’re booking your freight shipments or coordinating shipments for clients, the carriers you use need to be insured.  They need to be insured for more money and more contingencies than your average car, …

December 27, 2016
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The lean supply chain — how a transportation management system makes you a lean, mean, trucking machine

Lean supply chain management is all the rage these days. We’ve been blogging a lot about efficiency lately, and for good reason — a powerful transportation management system (TMS) is critical to making sure that, as a broker, you’re …

December 12, 2016
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Freight Brokerage and Technology — Self-driving trucks, efficiency, and the need to be on top of new technology

The truth about truck transport today is that freight brokers are not a fringe group, they’re not on their way out (though some would tell us otherwise), and they’re not a tiny fraction of trucking. The truth is, freight brokerage is a …

December 5, 2016
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How to fix the waste you didn’t realize was in your TMS

Anyone in supply chain management, manufacturing, or hospitals is probably already aware of the principles I’ll be reviewing here: Lean Systems.  Alternatively, Lean methodology is referred to as Kaizen, referencing where it was first …

October 31, 2016
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What, exactly, is Transportation Management Software anyway?

We might think we can easily identify what transportation management software is, but as was pointed out in a recent discussion on LinkedIn, it’s often confusing what actually makes up TMS. To the point, JP Wiggins pointed out in a LinkedIn …

October 10, 2016
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The real price of a “Free” TMS

Once upon a time, to use software, you actually had to buy a physical copy and install it to your machines manually, one by one.  Even with the early stages of the internet, it was faster to have a CD with the program than it was to …

September 26, 2016
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An introduction to All-in-One Transportation Management Systems:

You’re shopping around for a TMS – either for a system to use as your company gets started as a freight broker, or something to upgrade to from a low cost or free option. What should be included with your new TMS?  What should you …

September 19, 2016

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