CFO Beating You Up Over Rising Freight Costs? Hit Back with a TMS
Anthony Vitiello
May 23, 2018
“Freight spend is up 15% year over year and it is eating into the bottom line! What the hell is going on over there in
Combating Intermodal Market Challenges & Costs
Kelly St. Aubin
May 10, 2018
It’s both an interesting and rather chaotic time in the intermodal market. The electronic logging devices (ELD) mandate is in full effect, and there have
BASF Video Case Study: The Value of Real-Time Freight Visibility
Adrian Gonzalez
May 3, 2018
A few weeks ago at the Descartes Evolution 2018 User Conference, I had the opportunity to interview William Wehrle, Director of Supply Chain at BASF,
5 Things to Know Before Negotiating Ocean Shipping Contracts This Year
Sri Laxmana
April 19, 2018
The 2018-19 contract season for ocean shipping is here, and it’s time to think about the best way to approach negotiations. Of course, you want to
Transportation Spot Market Inversion
Adrian Gonzalez
April 16, 2018
Shippers today find themselves in a difficult and costly situation: their routing guides are often broken and they’re having to go to the spot market
Truck Capacity Shortage: The Past, Present and Future
Marc Chrencik
April 4, 2018
Make no mistake — today, it’s a carrier’s world and shippers are living in it. From the last half of 2017 through today and beyond,
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