Descartes Fleet Solutions: Five Key Aspects - JBF Sentiment Rating™ Review
A comprehensive analysis of how Descartes Systems Group is redefining the future of routing, mobile, and telematics with new technologies and strategic acquisitions. The five key areas especially worth delving into are: ✅ Descartes Customer Engagement Platform ✅ Proactive driver safety training for Descartes Mobile customers ✅ Hours of service (HOS) status aware optimization with Geotab electronic logging devices (ELD) ✅ Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning performance improvement and simulation ✅ Integrated Systems
ORTEC 2023: Five Key Aspects - JBF Sentiment Rating™ Review
A comprehensive analysis of ORTEC's latest advancements in routing and load building software, focusing on key areas such as predictive order capabilities, master routing decay, multifaceted optimization, industry-specific cloud solutions, and AI implications.
Digging Into The Data: Master Your Testing Guide
Launching a new TMS technology platform is a monumental step. Yet, the journey from a great idea to a successful implementation is bridged by a solid testing approach. Discover how the right testing strategies can significantly mitigate risks, ensure alignment with expectations, and pave the way for a smooth Go-Live transition in this comprehensive guide.
OTM TMS Product Roadmap Review 2023 Update
Oracle continues to invest in disruptive technology. We are excited by the announcement of Oracle’s partnership with Cohere, a leading generative AI company. Our hope is this will speed up the rate of meaningful AI in OTM. In this update, Oracle delivered on the integration of digital freight brokers during both planning and execution in their last release which include Uber Freight, Convoy, Surge Transportation, and LoadSmart.
Desired End State – An Insider's Guide to Acquiring TMS Technology
This Guide will help you discover the key to optimizing your TMS experience. Learn how defining the Desired End-State (DES) can significantly reduce the odds of a middling outcome. With transportation accounting for 3% to 6% of total sales for most shippers, uncovering savings opportunities in this substantial expense is crucial.
Understand how to identify value-driving levers and thoughtfully select the right technology and managed service providers, ensuring your organization's freight operations excel beyond mediocrity.
Power and Deficiencies of Modern Fleet Routing & Scheduling Solutions Guide
Over the past 35 years, technological advances have made fleet routing and scheduling solutions widely available and quite powerful. Legacy providers such as Omnitracs/Roadnet, Descartes, ORTEC and Aptean/Paragon are now competing with up-and-coming solutions from providers like Bringg, LogiNext and Opsi systems.
One of the most common uses of private fleets is to support final mile delivery of a company’s products. We call this the “secondary distribution network”.
The secondary network is defined as the movement of product from a distribution center to the end customer location and can be further broken down in subgroups categorized by stop densities. The focus of this paper is on High Density networks.
Blue Yonder Luminate TMS Product Roadmap Review
Outlined in this ebook are the five key areas that caught our attention, as well as our JBF Sentiment Rating™ with 5 being best. In summary, we like BY’s TMS investment strategy. We are intrigued at the possibilities that the Luminate TMS web services will offer once completed, and we are also eager to see other extensions that shore up some of the less mature areas of the system, most notably fleet and parcel management.
Download the Buyers Guide to Transportation Management Systems
When it comes to Transportation Management Systems too many companies jump right into the process by thinking that step one is vendor selection—when approaching this monumental investment from a strategy-first perspective is definitely the smarter way to go. This buyers guide will educate you about the importance of taking the time to conduct proper due diligence before jumping into the vendor selection process.
OTM TMS Product Roadmap Review
In today’s world of M&A and serial entrepreneurs, Oracle has found a way to retain some of the best logistics software talent in the world. Many of Oracle's logistics leadership have been involved with TMS solutions since the 1990s. They were the original developers of the Manugistics TMS, and then G-Log before the company was acquired by Oracle in 2005. Twenty-five years later, they remain passionate about logistics technology and how it can be used to solve some of the most complex problems in supply chain.
Outlined in this guide are the five most interesting roadmap items, as well as our perspective on their usefulness for a transportation operation based on our JBF Sentiment Rating™ with 5 being best.
Manhattan Associates TMS Update Review
Manhattan Associates (MANH) has re-written their Transportation Management System. The new solution, now called Manhattan Active Transportation Management (MATM), uses a componentized, microservices (MS) architecture, following in the path of Manhattan’s Active Omni and Active Warehouse Management solutions.
While we applaud MANH for their significant investment in MATM, it does come with risks and costs for current Manhattan TLM users, as well as those evaluating the Manhattan TMS Platform.
Here is our take on the benefits of the new solution, as well as some areas of concern.
Optimizing Transportation's Spend and Impact Guide
The complexities of transportation cause many companies to treat this segment of the supply chain as an afterthought. Even very sophisticated operations sometimes address transportation in a silo, inadvertently neglecting the significant cost savings and performance improvement they could achieve with a broader perspective.
In this guide, we explore why managing transportation holistically is critical to overall business performance and review four key actions companies can take to get the most from this critical area of the business.
Detention in Trucking Guide
Looking for a win-win opportunity with your carriers? Shippers and carriers can both benefit from initiatives that seek to minimize detention. While the individual benefits differ between shippers and carriers, the commonality is that a reduction in detention time has the net impact of increasing asset and labor productivity which will drive down costs for both parties. Download this practical guide to learn more.