Archive for Transportation Management Systems
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is researching how software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions and cloud computing are being used and deployed today and how these technologies will evolve in the future. Because SaaS is so prevalent in the transportation management systems (TMS) and mobile resource management (MRM) markets, I thought it would be worthwhile to dive into NIST’s research and writings on this topic.
My first reaction… Continue reading
Last week, we published a guest commentary by Greg Brady on creating “a truly integrated logistics operation.” Brady made the case that companies need to take a more holistic perspective of their transportation operations (inbound and outbound; domestic and international; private fleet and common carriers) and he suggested that using a single platform for managing these operations was the ideal solution. As we highlighted last year in “… Continue reading
VICS Empty Miles: A Retailer’s Experience
· CommentsVICS, the Voluntary Interindustry Commerce Solutions Association, has a program called “Empty Miles.” It is an online backhaul solution that enables a collaborative business process for identifying transportation efficiency opportunities between trading partners. When I attended the annual JDA user conference a few weeks ago, one of JDA’s retail customers endorsed this program.
Empty Miles matches a shipper’s trailers that are returning empty with another pre-qualified shipper’s… Continue reading
Last week was a relatively quiet one for news; this week, it was hard to keep up. Here is what caught our attention:
- Oracle Integrates Oracle® Transportation Management 6.1 with Oracle’s JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 9.0
- ORACLE REPORTS Q4 GAAP EPS OF $0.46, NON-GAAP EPS $0.60
- April 2010 Surface Trade with Canada and Mexico Rose 32.4 Percent from April 2009
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Last night, Descartes announced its acquisition of Routing International, a privately-held provider of route planning solutions based in Belgium. Descartes has a long history in the route planning market, and several years ago it acquired Cube Route, a software-as-a-service vendor in this space. So, why acquire another related company?
I spoke this morning to Chris Jones, EVP Solutions and Service at Descartes, to get more details. Here… Continue reading
Last summer, I wrote a posting highlighting the “white spaces” of transportation management—i.e., existing opportunities for companies and software vendors to innovate the way transportation is planned and executed. In many cases, these opportunities are not new, but either the technology hasn’t existed to enable them very well or companies have simply chosen to focus on other priorities.
One positive effect of the recession is that it has… Continue reading
The problem with taking a random walk at 3:00 AM is that you pay for it the next day, especially if you follow it with a 5-hour plane ride home.
- RedPrairie acquires leading on-demand warehouse management (WMS) provider, SmartTurn
- RedPrairie enhances Transportation Management with appointment sharing for inbound less-than-truckload (LTL) shipments
- RedPrairie enhances Warehouse Management solution with touch screen packing operations
I’m just back from Manhattan Associates’ Momentum 2010 User Conference. The theme this year was “Platform Thinking.” Manhattan, an ARC client, has been on a four to five year journey to bring its applications onto a common supply chain platform. Its warehouse management system (WMS) application was just added to the platform this year. The only applications not fully on the platform today are demand planning and inventory optimization… Continue reading
