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Transportation Management Made Easy
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …