Top trends series: upping the game in mobility and logistics

You thought reaching agreement on an international sales contract was hard. But now you have to move the goods from one country to another before you get paid. And you have to do it within the terms of the sales agreement and without incurring a lot of unexpected expenses. This webinar is the perfect overview of the transportation process whether you're shipping by ocean or air. Learn the steps you need to follow to move your products affordably, securely and within budget.

Outdated transportation management systems (TMS) and infrastructure are among the most significant challenges plaguing the domestic transport industry today. It continues to be extremely difficult to access tracking, reporting, and analytics information.

Your challenge is to know where your cargo is. When it’s on the move in a trailer or a container. When it’s stored in a warehouse. Outdoors, geolocation is easy to get. But indoors, when satellites are out of sight, alternative location technologiesare needed. By combining Wifi and Sigfox network infrastructure, in partnership with ALPS global device manufacturer, IBM has set up a simple and cost-efficient solution that succeeds in seamlessly tracking any shipment along the supply chain, in both outdoor and indoor environments.

To discuss how brokers can work to secure reliable capacity, FreightWaves and Trucker Tools are partnering for a one-hour webinar on Tuesday, January 15, at 2pm. This interactive webinar will feature insights from Prasad Gollapalli, CEO at Trucker Tools, as well as Jeff Henderson, Senior Vice President of Operations for Ryan Transportation Services, to share how technologies like Smart Capacity can help provide accurate, up-to-the-minute visibility into your carriers and their needs, supported by collaborative tools and real-time data to keep your carriers in the money…and your customers’ loads moving.