TMS
RedPrarie Partners With Telogis
Telogis' GeoBase geospatial platform is an enterprise software component that provides critical location functionality to enterprise software packages,...
Outsource Consultant Joins SAP Value Network
A global business and IT consulting company specializing in nearshore outsourcing, Neoris says the industry value network (IVN) helps drive collaboration...
Prophesy and BestTransport Announce Partnership
Utilizing Prophesy's load-building and route-optimization system, BestTransport extends its execution technology into the automated planning area, the...
Tracing the Track to Transportation Success
Managing movement of assets on a vast scale in a business that changes from minute to minute is daunting. Keeping up and adjusting to those changes based...
Visibility Makes Service More than Bearable
One of the things we knew right off the bat was that we understand gift delivery but we recognized that our grower partners are the experts at shipping...
TMS Right Now
When the enterprise is as wide as the country and the number of plants and shipments are large by any measure, getting control of the shipping function...
Echo Global Logistics Acquires Freight Management Software Company
Echo Global Logistics, Inc., a privately held provider of transportation management services, acquired SelecTrans, LLC, a freight management software...
RedPrairie Acquires GEOCOMtms
RedPrairie Corp. (Milwaukee) has acquired GEOCOMtms (Quebec). RedPrairie will integrate and support all products and services offered by both organizations...
i2 and IBM Renew Commitment to Pay-as-You-Go TMS
i2 Technologies, Inc. (Dallas) expanded its strategic partnership with IBM (Armonk, N.Y.). The two companies will increase their investments in sales...
Follow that Trailer
Although it offers nationwide reach and moves freight north into Canada, a particularly strong service offered by Las Cruces, N.M.-based Mesilla Valley Transportation (MVT) is between the maquiladora industry in Mexico and the United States...
RedPrairie to Acquire Geocomtms
The combined companies will operate under the name RedPrairie Corp. and will integrate and support all products and services from both organizations....
Microsoft Selects Intermec to Support Microsoft Technology Centers
Intermec Inc. (Everett, Wash.), a developer of RFID, will supply RFID hardware to Microsoft Technology Centers in Austin, Reston, Chicago, Boston, Silicon...
New Infor Offering Speeds Import and Export of Goods
Infor (Alpharetta, Ga.), a provider of enterprise software, introduced restricted party screening software that enables companies to quickly identify...
Oracle Updates PeopleSoft Supply Chain Management Software
Following up on its commitment to support and enhance PeopleSoft applications, in mid-November Oracle(Redwood City, Calif.) announced the availability...
HighJump Acquires Delivery Management Software Company
HighJump Software, a 3M company (St. Paul, Minn.), will acquire Global Beverage Group Inc. (GBG, Waterloo, Ont.), a provider of delivery management software...
The Network Effect
Identifying best practices in transportation management and implementing those best practices across a company's supply chain network are a fundamental...
Automated Hours of Service Record Keeping
To be technical about it, Section 395.15 of the Federal Motor Carriers Safety Administration's RegulationsHours of Service (HOS) gives specific requirements...
Calculating On-Board Computing Benefits
Pitt Ohio performed a 90-day trial with one terminal and a limited number of trucks to determine how in-cab monitoring would fit with its operations....
It's What's In-Cab that Counts
When first introduced, in-cab computers and truck monitoring equipment met with resistance from drivers. They saw it as an example of Big Brother watching...
Fast Turns for a Competitive Edge
In an industry in which typical lead times are as much as eight weeks, the edge Anthro Corp. (www.anthro.com) has over competitors is that it ships made-to-order...
HighJump Acquires Pinnacle Distribution Concepts
HighJump Software (Eden Prairie, Minn.) acquired Pinnacle Distribution Concepts Inc. (Knoxville, Tenn.). Pinnacle is the developer of a web-based transportation...
Sterling Commerce to acquire Nistevo
Sterling Commerce, a provider of multi-enterprise collaboration solutions and a subsidiary of telecommunications company AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T), has agreed...
Book distributor gets the paper out
The only paper Keith Shay wants to see in his warehouse is between the covers of the books Ware-Pak Inc. (www.ware-pak.com) receives, stores and ships....
TMS solutions arent living up to the hype
Research analyst firm Analytiqa recently conducted a survey of over 100 supply chain and IT directors in leading companies across Eastern and Western...
Akzo Nobel automates its freight rating process
Chemical producer Akzo Nobels Surfactants business unit, a producer of cationic and specialty surfactants, has begun the process of automating its freight...
