Understanding pricing in the transportation market is difficult for buyers. But the more sobering question is: will the TM market follow other sectors with giveaways and freeware?
Collections
These are collections of articles around a specific topic.
Warehouse Management
Warehouse Management continues to be a critical function in the global supply chain. Many innovations continue . . .
Supply Chain Risk Management
We have gone through a revolution in supply chain, reducing cycle times, greatly reducing inventories, and outsourcing manufacturing to lower-cost regions resulting in tremendous improvements to performance. But there has been a price to pay. . .
Supply Chain Orchestrators and Federated Business Models
The following articles and presentations cover the concepts of the Federated Enterprise and the role of the Supply . . .
Sourcing and Procurement / Supplier Relationship Management
How a company manages its suppliers makes a huge difference in profitability, performance, and the continuity . . .
Perspectives on the Cloud
“The Cloud” – everyone is talking about it, and as more and more vendors pile on using the term, it seems to have . . .
Demand Management
Demand Management has never been more important. From demand creation to marketing automation . . .
Social Networking
Enterprise Social Networking (ESN) is rapidly becoming an essential element of business to business communications. Unlike social networking in the consumer population . . .
Research on RFID, Auto-ID, Location-based Services, and Sensor Based Solutions
RFID is one of those technologies that has as many potential uses as can be imagined. It has been used across virtually all industries and myriad applications. We’ve seen dramatic reductions in cost and implementation challenges and a recent surge in item-level tagging. . .