Memorializing the Role of Supply Chain Management in American Military Success
“Good logistics alone can’t win a war. Bad logistics alone can lose it.” – General Brehon B Somervell, 1942
Calculating the Impact of Changes to Hours of Service Rules
Ultra transportation analysts have done the legwork, taking a hard look at what the new rules will actually require and establishing a framework for analyzing client program data to determine the real-world impact the changes will have on their current operations.
TMS of the Future: A Look at Emerging Technologies’ Impact on Transportation Management
shippers today have unfettered access to transportation management systems (TMS) and route/freight/network optimization technologies leveraging all these powerful technologies to capture unbelievable efficiency in the management of complicated supply chains.
The Artistry Hiding Within Transportation Optimization
Seeing every single roadway etched across the face of the lower 48 really drives home the mind-boggling number of variables factored into transportation planning LoadFusion optimizes
5 Rebuttals to InfoWeek’s “5 Reasons Tech Projects Fail” Article
these 5 reasons is likely true when it comes to macro solutions – ERP s produced by the IBMs, Oracles or multi-tenant TMSs produced by the likes of JDA and LeanLogistics – more nimble providers of innovative technology don’t necessarily fall into the traps he mentions.
Disaster Planning: TMS Makes Your Transportation Program a Hard Target
UltraShipTMS maintained a perfect, zero-downtime record during Hurricane Sandy, even as much of the locale was under water and/or without power. Does your transportation program have a plan for when disaster strikes?
Supply Chain Technology Doesn’t Always Mean TMS Software
using technology to foster collaboration throughout the supply chain improves the efficiency of transportation at every level – from the routing and rate efficiency provided by TMS and related software, to the systems being developed to use less and cleaner fuels.
Using TMS to Minimize the Impact of New Hours of Service Trucking Rules
Trucking capacity for over the road shipping in North America is already projected to be tight for 2013; perhaps tighter than ever before. So it is with great unease that the carriers and shippers alike await the imminent implementation of new federal hours-of-service (HOS) rules which are scheduled to take…
Is there Depth in Your TMS’s Bench of Carriers?
The return of baseball season has us thinking about, you guessed it, transportation, logistics and TMS software. Wait! What? Follow our addled logic to the correlation between America’s pastime and getting shipments delivered on-time.
TMS – Lethal Weapon in the War on Transportation Costs
DC Velocity magazine performed their annual Outlook survey polling shippers on their spending plans for the year. And while the editorial they produced with the data didn’t exactly set out to focus on transportation management systems (TMS), it may as well have been entitled, “Why Shippers Need a TMS”.