Thinking Transite | Transite, Transportation Management

DC Velocity’s Technology Review on TMS

Transportation Management Systems help shippers and 3PLs pick the lowest-cost carrier according to a DC Velocity review.

Freedom of Choice—the LTL Rating Alternative

Transite offers affordable off-the-shelf commercial LTL rating tools.

Modern Transportation Management Technologies Open for Business

Modern TMS systems are far more flexible and open. You should be able to add components as you need them to tailor the system to the unique needs of your business– either through your own development or third-party “bolt on” components.
3PLs have great insight into this concept.
Over the past half year, we’ve [...]

Poor Transportation Management Can Make You Uncompetitive

We were a guest speaker at Manufacturing Matters! 2010 in Milwaukee, Wisc., a few weeks ago. We spoke on transportation management and the impact of inbound and outbound on supply chain management. Overall, it was a great chance to talk with manufacturers about trends they’re seeing in their business and concerns they have in light [...]

TIA Transportation Management Experts Optimistic

We conducted an opinion survey of transportation management experts at the 32nd Annual TIA Convention and Trade Show in Tucson, Ariz., on April 8th and 9th. Though 3Pls represented the majority of those completing the survey, other respondents were spread throughout a cross-section of attendees including shippers, carriers, and vendors.

Was Q1 Good for You?

No doubt, 2009 was one of the toughest years for American manufactures in history, with extreme declines in capacity utilization and output. This can be blamed on the collapse of the financial system in September of 2008, which we all know too well.

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.

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