Weekly Update - Feb 24

Updates from Fourkites, 3GTMS, Blue Yonder, SAP and McLeod

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TMS Tracker
February 24, 2025

Hi,

Welcome to this edition of our Transportation Management Software Newsletter, bringing you the latest updates from leading industry players. Below, you'll find highlights from recent blog posts covering Freight Classification, Barcode Scanning, Driver visibility and more!

  • Comprehensive Visibility: Supports complex supply chains with real-time transportation monitoring, IoT sensor data, and end-to-end visibility.

  • Innovative Integration: Moves beyond traditional solutions by incorporating yard management, inventory visibility, and order orchestration, alongside an Intelligent Control Tower powered by AI.

  • Strategic Shift: Focuses on automated actions and measurable outcomes by stepping away from conventional evaluation frameworks.

  • Automation Focus: Leverages advanced TMS and shipping software to automate freight classification, ensuring optimized shipping costs and seamless logistics.

  • Regulatory Readiness: Prepares businesses for upcoming LTL freight classification changes by the NMFTA in 2025, emphasizing compliance and operational efficiency.

  • ERP Synergy: Showcases how ERP integration with shipping software can streamline operations, reduce costs through rate shopping and automation, and enhance carrier network connectivity.

  • Proven Success: Features real-world success stories and highlights benefits like improved sustainability through greenhouse gas emissions reporting.

  • Operational Accuracy: Emphasizes the role of barcode scanning in achieving shipping accuracy and enhancing operational efficiency.

  • Integrated Solutions: Details how integrating barcode scanning with TMS reduces errors and drives faster, more reliable shipment processes; encourages scheduling a free demo.

  • Conference Insights: Recaps the Manifest 2025 conference with over 7,200 logistics professionals, focusing on cutting-edge AI and machine learning innovations.

  • Strategic Benefits: Highlights how advanced technology helps LSPs anticipate disruptions, make data-driven decisions, and optimize cost/service tradeoffs.

  • Personal Journey: Shares a compelling story of overcoming a heart diagnosis, emphasizing the importance of self-advocacy and seeking the right medical guidance.

  • Health Awareness: Differentiates between a heart attack and cardiac arrest, urging readers to consider CPR training and proactive self-care.

  • Resilience Planning: Discusses how organizations can prepare for supply chain disruptions caused by geopolitical disputes and climate change using data and AI tools.

  • Agile Solutions: Encourages adopting agile strategies and upgrading technology to secure cost savings and boost overall efficiency.

  • Release Enhancements: Introduces the 2502 release with improved features for shippers and carriers, including performance monitoring via SAP Cloud ALM.

  • Streamlined Processes: Offers enhancements like aggregated dangerous goods information and refined dock appointment scheduling, plus new invoice processing settings.

  • Innovative Interface: Details the implementation of a new invoice status update interface using SAP Note 3557909 for improved tracking in SAP BN4L.

  • Guided Process: Provides a step-by-step guide to deploying the update, emphasizing the need for thorough testing before production.

  • Enhanced Visibility: Announces a strategic partnership to boost driver visibility and streamline communication through real-time tracking and driver verification alerts.

  • Automation Edge: Leverages FlowLogix capabilities to automate logistics communication tasks, including document retrieval and POD processing, for seamless brokerage tracking.

Keeping up with the latest trends in transportation management software is essential for businesses looking to optimize logistics, improve efficiency, and leverage cutting-edge AI-driven solutions. Stay tuned for our next update!

Best Regards,
TMS Tracker