project44 announced that Schneider, a truckload, intermodal and logistics services provider, is using the project44 visibility platform to automate a variety of shipping processes across its transportation management business. With the platform, Schneider says it can provide shippers and carriers with real-time access to truckload and less than truckload (LTL) shipment information and freight availability, […]
A Transplace employee working in the company’s platform. ( Photo: Transplace ) A leading provider of transportation management and logistics technology is bringing on a new chief technology officer (CTO) to build more transaction-processing bandwidth and capacity on the company’s highly automated platform. Transplace announced that Jim French joined the company as its new CTO.
By Gary Forger, special projects editor Digitization of the supply chain is not new. Either as a concept or as a reality. But it does find itself in an interesting spot these days. Consider these three perspectives. “The ‘digital supply chain’ will be the logistics technology concept of the year.” That’s from Clint Reiser in
The developer of a freight-matching app for truck drivers and shippers at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach has raised $97 million in new funding as the startup works to improve its fledgling technology and expand to other ports. NEXT Trucking Inc. said Wednesday that Brookfield Asset Management Inc. ’s venture investment arm
Schneider Transportation Management, a division of Schneider, has selected Trucker Tools’ carrier management and shipment tracking software services to support its growing network of carriers and freight brokerage operations. Schneider operates one of the trucking industry’s largest freight brokerage operations, moving loads and interacting with thousands of carriers daily. The company is incorporating Load Track
GlobalTranz Enterprises, Inc., a technology and third party logistics company, announced the release of the next generation of GTZcommand software to monitor and manage logistics operations and transportation networks. The functionality of GTZcommand includes automated digital freight matching; real-time tracking and notifications; rate, quote, order and workflow management; robust and intuitive real-time analytics; configurable business
GlobalTranz Enterprises Inc. has released the next generation of its GTZcommand transportation management system (TMS). GTZcommand’s functionality includes: Automated digital freight matching; Real-time tracking and notifications; Rate, quote, order and workflow management; Robust and intuitive real-time analytics; Configurable business process and business rule management; Back-office product and services, including insurance, credit, invoicing and freight bill
The freight brokerage company released the next generation of GTZcommand. GlobalTranz, a tech-focused freight brokerage company, has launched the next generation of its transportation management system, GTZcommand. GTZcommand offers automated digital freight matching; real-time tracking and notifications; rate, quote, order and workflow management; real-time analytics; configurable business process and business rule management; and back-office
Wise Systems, an autonomous dispatch and routing software provider for delivery fleets, has raised $7 million in its Series A round, according to a Dec. 6 press release. In our fifth episode of RoadSigns, we ask: How far can we go in terms of automating freight transactions? Hear a snippet above from Ziad Ismail, chief
At 12, Drew McElroy was in trucking. His parents ran a freight brokerage operation out of a spare bedroom in Milltown, New Jersey—connecting truck owners to companies that needed to move goods—and he helped out by working the phones. Fifteen years later, a light bulb went off. Weren’t truck brokers doing the same thing that