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Transportation Management Made Easy
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, …
2017 is less than two short weeks away – and third party logistics is facing a potentially transformative year. A new president always has an impact on the economy, especially the first year, and there are major technological changes on the …
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 …
Becoming a freight broker isn’t actually the easiest thing in the world. There’s quite a few steps – and quite a few things you need to watch out for or be aware of. There’s plenty of (excellent) guides on the basic steps to becoming …
I get it, you’re busy. But that’s no excuse for not utilizing one of the easiest, and fastest ways you could be getting better rates on each of your shipments! RateShare is one of those advanced features you don’t get from free …
Load boards, for brokers, are often a simple, quick tool to find a handful of business when times are tight. And unfortunately, it seems like times are tighter and tighter these days. The life of a broker is a life lived in the margins, at …
We’ve been on a bit of an efficiency kick lately — it’s a topic that constantly comes up around our office as we consider how to perfect logistics management for brokers and how to help them become as lean as possible. You see, in the …
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 …
Human beings invented computers to make complex mathematical calculations simpler — software has always been a natural evolution of this original purpose, and a TMS (transportation management system) is no different. The goal of TMS …
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 …
The transportation management system industry is saturated with subpar TMS solutions, but we think we’ve got the best one out there in Brokerware™. We might be tooting our own horn a little bit here, but hey… Toot toot. When we decided to …
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 …
If you think days and weeks of transportation management system software training is just a painful reality, just part of implementing a new TMS, then take that idea… Ball it up tightly. And toss it out the window. The entire point of …
When it comes to freight software features, your transportation management system (TMS) should have a small core of key features — and these features can make the difference between successfully implementing a new TMS… And failing utterly. …
Whether you’re a new transportation brokerage or you’ve been around a while, there’s one thing you need to effectively (and efficiently) run your business. That’s a transportation management system. When is it worth investing more than the …
You know you need software to help you manage your business. These days, transporting freight anywhere requires more than just a paper trail – it needs to be digital, and it needs to provide a wealth of information both for your …
What are API’s and why should you care? In this article, I will explain what API’s are and why they’re relevant to your business. API stands for Application Programming Interface. Every computer program or website on …
Finding a good solution for Transportation Management Systems TMS can be a mind numbing experience. I have put together some useful tips for what to look out for from my years of being in the software, and transportation …
The latest trend in TMS platforms with regards to rating engines/pricing LTL freight is web services or API.
New Releases XML Service Lane Rating You now have the ability to mark up rates based off State to State or Zip to Zip criteria. This gives you the ability to change the markup of your rates based off specific areas within your tariff. …
New Releases XML Service Lane Rating You now have the ability to mark up rates based off State to State or Zip to Zip criteria. This gives you the ability to change the markup of your rates based off specific areas within your tariff. …