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Locus for Retail: Smart Tech’s Role in Empowering Workforce and Streamlining Capacity

Locus

Peak and holiday seasons are typically when retailers have to scale their capacity to meet the demands. However, with large volumes of orders and manual capacity planning methods, decision making takes a hit and ultimately leads to unnecessary increase in vehicles to accommodate load which leads to increased cost.

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Cracks in Trucking Capacity Show Up in the South

FreightWaves SONAR

The significance of this region’s having the most elevated rejection rates is simply that it is breaking a multiyear pattern of relatively loose capacity conditions and minimal volatility. While capacity remains abundant in the domestic freight market, the flow of freight is not balanced. To request a SONAR demo, click here.

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3 Things that Make Parade Unique Amongst Capacity Management Vendors

Parade

Parade’s approach to capacity management is different from the rest in several ways. Parade is considered the top capacity management solution by most of the supply chain industry. What they don’t say in so many words is that that wider capacity network may come from access to the networks of other brokerages on the platform.

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[WHITE PAPER] Peak Season Forecast: Another truckload capacity crunch

FreightWaves SONAR

A risk to that outlook is the potential for the Asian energy crisis to disrupt manufacturing capacity The truckload peak season starts later than the other modes and the recent decline in demand (from a very high level) at the beginning of the fourth quarter is seasonally typical. Request a SONAR Demo. Request a SONAR SCI Demo.

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Do Capacity Management Tools Work for Freight Agencies?

Parade

Capacity Management for Freight Agencies? This feature shines a light on Parade’s capacity management for freight agents. Here’s Why Many Capacity Management Tools Don’t Serve Freight Agencies Not too long ago, capacity management simply didn’t work for freight agencies that provide logistics solutions to their agents.

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LTL Freight: How has tight capacity, truckload rates and parcel modes impacted LTL?

FreightWaves SONAR

To survive trends like these and to cut costs as much as possible without cutting quality or losing capacity, changes must occur. It is vital that shippers analyze freight capacity, how the market impacts shipping rates , and use supply chain technology and innovations. Request a SONAR Demo. Request a SONAR SCI Demo.

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3 Ways Capacity Management Can Help You Negotiate Better Rates

Parade

One of the biggest benefits freight brokerages see from capacity management solutions is the ability to negotiate with their carriers for better rates on loads. In today’s , carrier-ruled market , where capacity is tight and rates are high, that’s more important than ever.