The ROI Behind Freight Visibility

whitePaper | January 25, 2022

Supply chain management is the management of material and information flow in a supply chain, designed to provide the highest degree of customer satisfaction at the lowest possible cost. It requires the commitment of supply chain partners to work closely to co-ordinate order generation, order taking and order fulfilment.

whitePaper | April 15, 2022

Supply Chain security is an area of significant focus and scrutiny today. A number of recent significant attacks against both hardware and software supply chains have further exposed the criticality of understanding the threats posed against manufacturers and providing sufficient mitigations. Understanding and mitigating supply chain threats starts with simply identifying the threats. The purpose of this document is to further expand on prior work and dive into the testing, provisioning, and validation phases. These phases represent potentially the most significant threat against products as they are often conducted, at least in part, by external organizations. Without an understanding of all the known threats currently present, it would be impossible to make any assertions regarding the overall security of products and their associated supply chain

whitePaper | September 20, 2022

increases safety for vehicle passengers and vulnerable road users. Advances climate and sustainability goals. Increases transportation equity for low income and minority communities in urban and rural areas.Provides more affordable and accessible transportation options for historically disadvantaged communities. Creates new business models that generate jobs to fuel the U.S. economy.

whitePaper | October 15, 2022

Many global organizations that Deloitte works with have made a significant investment in the Anaplan platform to provide end-to-end decision-making capabilities across business functions (e.g., Operations, Commercial, Finance). These organizations view Anaplan as a key enabler to understanding changing market conditions through the real-time modeling of multiple scenarios that that require many functions to provide critical inputs. Moreover, these organizations are continuously looking for opportunities to introduce new capabilities and insights for the business to achieve strategic objectives and build a competitive advantage.

whitePaper | January 20, 2023

UPS, FedEx and other carriers spend large sums of money advertising that all of your parcel shipping needs can be satisfied by one vendor. In return for your business, the carrier will provide (at a very low price, or even free) the hardware and software your company needs to automatically create shipments, assign tracking numbers, print labels, and produce the required end-of-day reports. All you need to do is pick, pack, wrap, and have it on your dock. And, by placing all of you parcel requests with one carrier, it is reasonable to assume that you will be getting the best rate, given your level of volume. How can things get better than that?

whitePaper | April 19, 2021

For decades, request for proposal (RFP) processes have served as the cornerstone for freight procurement. Shippers have historically gravitated toward contract freight for its reliability and pricing consistency, but due to the recent onslaught of digital freight partners that promise shorter-term contracts and real-time pricing, many industry constituents wonder whether or when RFPs will evolve. In an effort to dig beneath the surface of RFPs’ stronghold on the industry, Trimble and FreightWaves partnered to survey shippers, carriers and brokerages and identify the relational friction points that often hinge around the challenges presented by the RFP process.