Tender Rejection Rate
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 [...]
Dock Appointment Scheduling (Insights from Indago)
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 [...]
Transportation Management Improvement Opportunities
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 [...]
Freight Audit & Payment
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 [...]
Collaborative Shipping (Insights from Indago Members)
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 [...]
Transportation Benefits Via Smarter Packaging
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 [...]
