Let Your Data be the Decision-Maker in your Freight Business
Better service, optimized processes, and a strong top-line are what all businesses aim for continually. Investing in the right tools or logistics software makes the big goals possible. Data is the buzzword for businesses wanting to improve their basis for better decision-making. Thankfully, Logisticians and Freight Forwarders have plenty of useful data available. Data can be transformed into meaningful reports to show: your most profitable routes modes that aren't as efficient as others details of customers with outstanding With the happy …
Why Technology Is The Key Differentiator For Freight Forwarders Post-Pandemic?
The global freight forwarding market is going through an unprecedented change driven by technology, digitalization, trade wars, and the need to develop sustainable supply chains. This further pushed by the Covid-19 pandemic has forced the shippers, forwarders, and other LSPs to reassess their supply chain operations and strategies. True, the Covid-19 crisis, combined with ongoing change in the forwarding market, is going to accelerate the dependence on cloud-based integrated technology - but is it going to be the key differentiator? Data Ins…
Will We See Technology Used For Heightened Safety Standards At Ports?
We are getting increasingly adaptive as the decade progresses. Logisticians have taken the slowdown as a hurdle and got past it along with a few others too. Even small-scale organizations have knocked down legacy systems to usher in the digital age with a renewed hope. This decade like none before, I've seen greater emphasis laid on the health and safety of staff at ports. The supply chain industry has reinvented itself time and again, packed with innovations from electronic data interchange to eVGM. Today, as we get closer to u…
4 Questions You Should Ask Yourself to Know Where You Stand in your Freight Forwarding Business Competition
There is little doubt that the businesses that adapt themselves to the ever-changing demands of the industry stay relevant in the race. Even technology needs to be in line with the current trends to be able to contribute significantly to growth. Many freight forwarding companies are still relying on traditional and desktop-based software that has historically gotten the job done but are obsolete according to the modern age. Organizations must introspect their current ways of working against the likes of cloud-based applications to realize th…
Streamline Workflow with Single Software for Complete Control of Your Logistics Business
"Why fix if not broken yet?" - is what many logisticians and forwarders swear by, after years into the business. Just because an exigency hasn't struck yet doesn't mean we should not prepare for one. Being in the business for a long time makes you and your employees comfortable with the ways of working. The confidence of the years of experience can cloud a modern outlook towards Logistics and Freight Forwarding. Listed below are the most common follies by Freight Forwarders: Using just a spreadsheet to consolid…
Technology Secrets to Blaze past your Logistics and Freight Forwarding Competition
Your processes are optimized to the core. Your teams are running beyond efficiency and yet you fail to understand what is keeping you behind your competition. As a logistics provider with a globally dispersed team and network of partners and customers, you’re likely used to relying on a bunch of different software solutions across different locations. The Covid-19 pandemic just proved that all providers that have been running legacy systems have reached a point of no further progress. Work from home meant that isolated systems running yo…
Four Ways By Which A Modern Freight Forwarder Can Accomplish Significant Success
The pandemic has dragged onto another year but the lessons learned have made businesses more aware of the possible challenges. 2020 has been a wake-up for Freight Forwarders stuck with desktop-based Freight Software applications. Choosing the apt Freight Management Software marks the first step of setting sail towards success in 2021. The other step being: preparing for the race to use your strengths to get ahead of the competition. Understanding the market demands and customer behavior will be some of the factors to prepare for the race. Set…
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