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Transportation Forecasting is a practice that involves taking demand forecasts, promotions, point of sale data, and other demand signals to create a rolling forecast of transportation capacity [...]

Last week, Uber Freight announced that it is acquiring Transplace (disclosure: Transplace is an Adelante SCM client). As the companies state in the press release, this acquisition "will create [...]

Industry reports indicate that shippers are using the spot market more than ever to find truckload capacity. This suggests that contracted carriers are rejecting tendered loads. Is your tender [...]

How would you characterize your dock appointment scheduling process in terms of being able to plan and execute inbound and outbound shipments through your distribution centers as efficiently as [...]

In our last Indago survey, a majority of the respondents stated that “investing to eliminate waste and inefficiencies in existing transportation networks and processes” will deliver greater [...]

Several years ago, as transportation management systems (TMS) software vendors introduced enhanced freight audit and payment capabilities, many analysts predicted that shippers would bring this [...]

One way to improve capacity utilization of trailers and carriers in transportation is via Collaborative Shipping — for example, where one or more shippers co-load freight on a trailer or [...]

A big opportunity to reduce the number of trucks required to ship products is by developing smarter packaging. IKEA, for example, redesigned one of its lamps which cut packaging weight by 28% and [...]