Selecting and implementing a TMS is a bit like walking into a haunted house–you never know when a terrible design flaw is lurking around the corner.
Avoiding the Ghosts of Bad TMS Product Design
Expanding the Circle: Why Logistics Belongs in S&OP and S&OE
Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) has long been a trusted mechanism for aligning demand, supply, finance, and sales around a single plan. Its tactical counterpart, Sales & Operations Execution (S&OE), extends this alignment to a weekly or even daily cadence,… Read More
Implementing a TMS and WMS: What Shippers Need to Know
TMS or WMS—which comes first? We’ve identified 5 factors to help you determine the right sequence for your operations.
Fundamentals of a Successful Transportation Management System
Sophisticated shippers capture and prioritize business requirements as a key input into their TMS vendor selection process. Most shippers rely too heavily on 3rd party industry analysis that can’t identify the specific functional requirements that can enable them to more precisely down-select one or more TMS software vendors.
TMS Fall Maintenance: Pruning Data Decay & Using AI for Peak Performance
A TMS is a major investment, so when it doesn’t live up to your expectations, it’s frustrating (and that’s putting it mildly). The good news is that all is not lost—a little seasonal maintenance will go a long way.
5 Tactics to Reduce Costs and Enhance Efficiency With TMS Integration
5 practical tactics we leverage with our clients to help better understand and quantify integration effort before they become “budgetary shock” issues during an implementation.
FreightTech Reality Check: Insights on AI Impact and Effective TMS Implementation
Brad Forester sits down with Joe Lynch, host of The Logistics of Logistics podcast to talk about the FreightTech market, focusing on the impact of AI and machine learning, and strategies for implementing logistics technology.
How Can Liquor Help With Your Labor Challenges?
What’s one topic most industries can relate to each other about? Labor. No matter the industry, labor is a challenge. Logistics experts Brad Forester, founder and CEO of JBF Consulting, and Brian Carlson, Principal at Cornerstone Edge met for a short LinkedIn Live discussion on the topic.
The #1 Mistake Shippers Make When Implementing a TMS
When it comes to implementing a transportation management system (TMS), a critical mistake many shippers make is setting the implementation budget and timeline based on a software vendors’ average implementation duration estimates.
Make This One Subtle Change to Greatly Improve Your TMS Implementation Outcomes
In our business, failures are critical – but they are also important and teachable lessons. We define a failure as “an outcome that does not meet the client’s objective or stated expectation.” These failures can be a tremendous catalyst for innovation and improvement.
