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Freight Market Data Sources

FreightWaves SONAR

(Graphics created by Emily Ricks) There are ample opportunities to take advantage of spot versus contract freight data insights. Spot freight provides a short-term way to source capacity and boost procurement outside of contracted rates whether TL or LTL. And as mentioned, that TMS data becomes a key SONAR data source.

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Forecasting trends with aggregated flatbed data

FreightWaves SONAR

Shippers often manage transportation for these projects with historical data, bids from trusted carriers and a lot of guesswork. The industry’s most up-to-date supply chain data solution can help companies understand buying behavior and freight costs more accurately than any other source. That’s getting ready to change.

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A Trillion Dollars in Freight Transactions with Ken Adamo

The Logistics of Logistics

Shippers, brokers, carriers, news organizations and industry analysts rely on DAT for trends and data insights based on a database of $150 billion in annual market transactions. Adamo has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal and extensively in trade publications as a leading voice on freight market trends.

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[INFOGRAPHIC] FreightWaves SONAR spot freight market data sources

FreightWaves SONAR

(Graphics created by Emily Ricks) There are ample opportunities to take advantage of spot versus contract freight data insights. Spot freight provides a short-term way to source capacity and boost procurement outside of contracted rates whether TL or LTL. And as mentioned, that TMS data becomes a key SONAR data source.

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How to Avoid the Pitfalls of Contract Management in Telecom & High-Tech

What’s Inside: Exploring the importance of having a dedicated buy-side contracting team Leveraging tools to enhance efficiency and empower the legal and sourcing teams Establishing processes to gather and analyze contract data to spot trends

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DAT IQ: The Metrics that Matter with Samuel Parker

The Logistics of Logistics

Shippers, brokers, carriers, news organizations and industry analysts rely on DAT for trends and data insights based on a database of $150 billion in annual market transactions. Predicting the freight market is always tough even for DAT, so follow them for the most up-to-date freight market trends and insights.

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NRF 2024: Supply Chain Data

Logistics Viewpoints

This year, a recurring theme that I saw was about using supply chain data to improve the customer experience across the entire value chain. Here are the ones that stood out to me, especially as it relates to supply chain data. The single data cloud runs on Snowflake, one of Blue Yonder’s partners.