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Access America Wins Award

We just got word that one of our customers, Access America Transport, was a recipient of the Small Business Award for 2010 by the Chattanooga Area Chamber of Commerce.
Recently, Access America has received several industry honors. Last year, they were tapped as one of the Top 100 of Third Party Logistics companies by Inbound Logistics [...]

General Rate Increases. Pain or Opportunity?

At the beginning of every year we start hearing the same familiar news: “FedEx Announces General Rate Increase of 5.9%” or “Old Dominion Files a GRI of 4.4% effective January 18th”. A General Rate Increase is the average amount in which a carrier increases its prices. The increase is usually to cover the increase of [...]

Integrating Transportation into Your Supply Chain

We just released a new whitepaper that looks at the importance of taking a macro view of transportation management in the context of supply chain management. In addition to our views, we also developed the paper with two experts who have deep experience into the benefits and methodologies of integrating transportation into the corporate supply [...]

Thoughts from 2009 Intermodal Expo/TransComp Exhibition

In November, we went to Anaheim, Calif., to exhibit and attend the Intermodal Expo/TransComp Exhibition. While some attendees mentioned that the “numbers” seemed smaller than last year, we were consistently busy in our booth talking to current customers and prospects.

Talking Grey Areas at Parcel Forum 09

A few weeks ago, we had the opportunity to be a guest speaker the Parcel Forum 09 in Chicago. The hour-long discussion focused on how companies lose money in two areas of shipping transactions: ones that straddle parcel and LTL, and those between LTL and TL. Tough rate negotiations will not get [...]

Carriers: Customer Pricing Management - It’s not sexy but profitable

We won a great new carrier customer a few months ago that has sent us on mission. In the process of understanding the customer’s benefits, they touched on some points regarding revenue generation that are important for all carriers. Since then, other carriers have also come to us to explore innovative ways to generate more [...]

Feeling Good?

Over the past several weeks, we’ve done well and have closed an unusually high percentage of deals. While we always want to win more business, now, one of our top priorities is to hire talent to get our new customers on-board while maintaining the high quality of service to all of our current clients. [...]

Are You Optimized?

Since we last wrote, we participated in a very insightful webinar with Dr.Robert Handfield, Bank of America University Distinguished Professor of Supply Chain Management, North Carolina State University and Editor Emeritus of the Journal of Operations Management.
In the webinar, conducted and hosted by Emergys, one of the most compelling discussion points was around an organization’s [...]

Economy’s Impact on Transportation Management

Hi,
Here’s a quote for these times:
“Time and money are more important than ever. The tough economy has heightened the rewards for those organizations that have the abilities create new revenue, minimize costs and streamline processes. The transportation and shipping portions of the supply chain are ripe with such opportunities.” This was said [...]

Incumbent Vendors and the Microscope

What are we seeing these days?
Incumbent suppliers are under the microscope. Businesses are asking solid questions of their current transportation management supplier. What’s their ROI? Can the incumbent’s solution change to meet the immediate needs of a changing business? Is there a less disruptive, cost-effective, “faster” solution available on today’s market?
One thing for certain when [...]

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