API

Uber Freight plans to make its API publicly available for scheduling in the second half of the year.

Echo Global Logistics leverages a variety of intelligence capabilities to provide shippers and carriers with solutions that meet them where they are in their technology adoption journeys.

Shippers and logistics service providers want and need to proactively manage their customers’ shipments, ensuring they keep cadence in line with delivery expectations. When something goes wrong in transit, this demands quick, timely notification from carriers so they can proactively reset expectations or enact contingency plans.

Modern tour planning tools — like HERE Tour Planning API — make next-generation route visibility and optimization possible.

These new API offers from p44 represent the next step in supply chain connectivity, paving the way to a more transparent and collaborative future.

By making integrations accessible and affordable, Bitfreighter enables brokers to enter into the once-dreaded “EDI conversation” with shippers on the front end, using connectivity as a selling point.

The collaboration among Convoy, J.B. Hunt, Uber Freight and others to use technology to streamline scheduling at the dock level is proceeding as planned, according to company leaders at FreightWaves’ Future of Supply Chain conference in Cleveland.

The recent explosion of freight technologies has benefited companies of all shapes and sizes, but these solutions have had an outsized effect on small and mid-sized operations. 

At its core, Bitfreighter is an integration enablement platform. The company’s driving principle is to make integrations affordable and accessible by stepping away from the transactional pricing model and offering unlimited everything.

E-commerce SaaS platform BigCommerce added flexibility for sellers with a buy-online, pick-up-in-store offering.

El Scheduling Standards Consortium busca la opinión de los líderes tecnológicos del sector

“Scheduling appointments at facilities is one of the most common activities in trucking, but it is also one of the most fragmented and offline,” said Dan Lewis, co-founder and CEO of Convoy.

All the essential tools for shipping are centralized on Mothership’s dashboard, creating unmatched reliability and efficiency in your final-mile supply chain.

FreightWaves’ Mary O’Connell and Vector.ai’s James Coombes sit down to talk about all things concerning electronic data interchanges.

Burgeoning logistics tech firm EasyPost on Wednesday announced a last-mile delivery partnership with Swyft.

If you aren’t using a platform with an open API, you may find data siloed between different programs that are unable to communicate with your TMS. Your business will ultimately become constrained by the limitations of your TMS. You won’t have the freedom to design a TMS to your company’s needs.

As more solutions enter the market and companies’ technological suites have become more sophisticated, integrations have gone from nice-to-have perks to need-to-have requirements for many shippers.

A technological revolution and a pandemic-fueled capacity crunch came together to push digital freight matching into the spotlight over the past few years.

Centerboard’s newest API solutions are designed to provide customizable integration for shippers and technology providers.

SMC³ has fully embraced the FreightTech age and plans to continue innovating its LTL pricing and bidding tools in 2022.

“Our company vision is: ‘To create the ultimate freight shipping experience by operating at the optimal intersection of people and tech.’ This is our first step towards making that vision a reality for our customers,” says the founder and CEO of Ally Logistics.

When shippers are using several cobbled-together solutions with hit-or-miss integrations, they miss out on opportunities to optimize their business practices and workflows.

“Amazon Web Services makes it easy to host web applications for scalable solutions. We are looking to do the same thing for supply chain software by breaking down the data barriers that stop anyone from building the tools they need to offer better services.”

The two companies are joining forces to provide a tech-powered, eco-friendly alternative to a wasteful supply chain.

CalAmp’s new temperature sensor operates under extreme conditions for enhanced cold chain visibility.

Earlier this month, RoadSync announced it has partnered with the truck stop and service center network AMBEST to help get trucks serviced and back on the road faster.

One works inside your system while the other works as an outside guest user.

“The first step to optimizing your capacity is to start with your network. … Step two is optimizing across multiple networks.”

This integration will allow McLeod customers to leverage Maven’s driver workflow solutions.

In an environment as hands-on as trucking, bridging the gap between the digital and physical worlds can prove challenging.

The Home Depot, a current customer of Loadsmart, was happy to see the brokerage continue its commitment to bring freight optimization to its supply chain.

The connection of these two platforms will empower Redwood customers with the ability to quote and book shipments in seconds, with reliable capacity.

“The longer it takes for us to communicate to each other … the longer the end customer, who we are all focused on at the end of the day, has to wait for information.”

A TMS catering to everyone is simply landing somewhere in the middle, and very likely a better solution exists for any of those given parties.

While EDI is a standardized way of data transfer, API provides flexibility and allows companies to customize and call the data sets that they want whenever they want.

API use continues to grow within businesses, and XPO is leveraging the potential to streamline XPO Connect and improve the overall customer experience.

The combination of artificial intelligence and machine learning are allowing XPO’s brokerage operation to offer more visibility into pricing, capacity and tracking.

API, or application programming interface, may soon become a common three-letter word in the air cargo space by making the booking experience similar to shopping on Amazon.

API, EDI platforms can work together. Singles Day parcel tsunami; Oh, those last 50 feet!

Online freight logistics startup Shipwell has made all of its functionalities available through the REST API, which allows companies to integrate all or some parts of the functionalities into their own workflows.

Digital freight brokerage LoadSmart and self-driving startup Starsky Robotics announced they have successfully priced, booked and delivered two loads of freight without human intervention.

EDI, API, or both? Which option is best for you? Today’s infographic, in partnership with Roadrunner Freight, looks to help you decide. 

Company makes first acquisition in its history and creates a global footprint.

Just how a Deerfield, IL, company became so important to the industry is a long story that starts with the teletypewriter, a macaroni-twisting machine and its namesake and founder, Edward Kleinschmidt.