Download Digest The approach to the TMS journey for shippers varies widely based upon the size, resources, and complexity of the organization. The larger the organization, the more apt that an outside consultant may be engaged. The smaller the organization, the more often you will find an operations or logistics manager spearheading the search with […]
Download Digest By all comparisons, 2020 raised the bar in presenting us with challenges to overcome both professionally and personally. Though the resounding response to 2020 becoming past history versus living history has been, “See ya.” There have been a number of lessons learned that we can use to keep our professional lives busy for […]
The one definitive in supply chain is that every action has a series of reactions. Those reactions drive policy, practice, behavior and a multitude of other conditions on the ground that we all manage. In the case of COVID-19, the impact goes even deeper from a psychological perspective in how we begin to mitigate risk […]
In today’s truckload rate environment, volume LTL and partial truck routing options become viable from both a cost basis and service standpoint. The lack of truckload capacity presents opportunities to reduce order quantities down to LTL size shipments in order to find routing options. The options rest in both traditional LTL carrier routing and partial […]
A freight factoring company is a financial third party that provides funding to a carrier at a discount to the actual receivable owed to the carrier by the shipper or broker. Freight factoring typically comes with two options. The first is when the factoring company takes most of the ownership of the carrier receivable and […]
Following up on our earlier segment on data, we recently had an opportunity to participate in a truckload RFP, and as a result, attempted to not only make sense of the current market, but more importantly, predict the future market. As we look at the volatility in the market with states mitigating the impact of […]
Regardless of your spend under management, TMS technology is more easily engaged today than it ever has been. Cloud based platforms are dominating the market. According to Orbis Research in an article published by GlobeNewswire (2020), the global Transportation Management Systems (TMS) market size is expected to gain market in the forecast period of 2020 […]
Read the full feature from Inbound Logistics! Rockfarm Mission Statement Rockfarm’s Mission Statement is to lower our clients’ supply chain “cost to serve.” Since our inception, our goal is to deliver visibility of the true cost to serve the market. Whether at the unit or part level, seeing the cost to serve our clients’ customers […]
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