Category: Video

[WEBINAR] 5 Tips to Supercharge Your TMS

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In this on-demand webinar, join Hunter Yaw, VP of Product at Loadsmart and Adam Wells, Director of Strategic Alliances at MercuryGate, as they walk through five ways shippers can leverage Loadsmart and MercuryGate to deliver tangible cost savings, improve service, and get more out of their TMS.

They discuss how to…

  • Accelerate rate discovery by adding instant rates to your TMS
  • Beat the market by making your routing guide responsive to market conditions
  • Eliminate surprises by tracking freight in near real-time
  • Find the best carrier, faster with algorithmic sourcing
  • Maximize open loading docks with Smart Scheduling

News: Loadsmart now provides shippers with instant pricing via Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets

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Today we released our Simple Quote add-on for Google Sheets and Microsoft Excel. The integrations provide shippers the ability to price and book truckload shipments in seconds directly from within a spreadsheet — without the need for a transportation management system (TMS).

While we already provide instant truckload rates inside most major TMSs, enabling Fortune 500 companies to book a truckload in seconds, we are now the first provider to level the playing field for smaller shippers with the new integrations.  

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The Changing Role of Logistics Service Providers

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Loadsmart’s co-founder and CEO Ricardo Salgado recently joined a group of industry experts to discuss the evolving landscape for logistic service providers with the editors at SupplyChainBrain.

View excerpts from their conversation below or watch the talk in its entirety here.

 

 

The role of the freight broker is evolving and will continue to evolve. It’s about adopting technology and using it to make [services] much more powerful and easier [to access]. Consumers are requesting better pricing and more visibility. In order to do that, we need that underlying technology.

 

 

 

When you’re asking a shipper to trust you with its $75,000 worth of cargo, and it’s going to cost you $1,300 to get on your platform, that’s a different sell than an Uber giving you a $25 promo code to try its [service]. The adoption curve is a bit different. But you’re seeing also a generational shift. This is the first year that we’ll have more Millennials than Baby Boomers. You’re starting to see people who are more comfortable in sharing their car, or their information online. They’re more comfortable with the underlying technology and taking a more of a calculated risk.