The 5 most popular MercuryGate logistics blogs of the past year reveal a window into the priority transportation management topics.
As a competitive business environment mixes with ongoing economic uncertainty, modern businesses face risks that jeopardize profit and customer loyalty. MercuryGate logistics blogs published during 2024 highlighted transportation management challenges and solutions that provide broad operational benefits.
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5. What is a Supply Chain Control Tower?
Visibility and control are difficult to achieve through traditional supply chain management methods. A supply chain control tower maximizes modern innovations to deliver visibility, control, and a broad spectrum of benefits.
Conventional systems, siloed and reactive, struggle to keep pace with global logistics, leading to inefficiencies and operational challenges. By integrating cutting-edge digital solutions, businesses overcome the hurdles of traditional practices, paving the way for a more streamlined and responsive supply chain.
In our blog, we examine 10 key features of the supply chain control tower. Read it today and to learn about real-world case studies that reveal how the supply chain control tower is delivering results for retailers, parcel carriers, and manufacturers.
4. TMS Software Price: What Shippers and LSPs Need to Know
Read the blog to discover critical differences between TMS price models.
We take a closer look at 7 benefits you can access through a cloud-based platform:
- Faster route planning and rerouting.
- Customized management processes.
- Improved end-to-end supply chain visibility.
- SaaS transportation management systems.
- Delivery option customization.
- Shipping claims and damages settlements.
- Enhanced business intelligence and insight.
While working through the various TMS software price options available may seem overwhelming, understanding the considerations we outline in the blog will help you decide the best path for you.
3. Trucking Regulations in 2025: Updates and What to Expect
The freight transportation industry is poised for substantial changes in trucking regulations during 2025. Some rule shifts could have far-reaching implications for U.S. supply chains.
By maintaining an awareness of what is coming, you position your business for success in any regulatory environment. Our blog explores how updates in trucking regulations will affect:
- Speed limiter mandate.
- Automatic Emergency Braking (AEB) Systems.
- Electronic Logging Devices expansion.
- Safety Measurement System (SMS) revisions.
- Drug and Alcohol Clearinghouse updates.
As we anticipate trucking regulations in 2025, we cannot deny the important role of technology-based solutions in ensuring compliance. Even if regulations are delayed or paused, these same technology solutions will help with everyday challenges like documentation, driver safety, and vehicle preservation.
2. TMS vs ERP for Transportation Management
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems are great at managing core business functions. However, a transportation management system (TMS) is often needed to keep pace with complex transportation models in an increasingly challenging supply chain environment.
Explore the TMS vs. ERP debate and you’ll find out how ERP solutions lack the transportation management capabilities needed to manage shipment execution, logistics, and transportation.
Four important capabilities in our TMS vs. ERP comparison:
- TMS accelerates implementation that supports a faster return on investment.
- TMS provides visibility across the transportation network.
- TMS achieves unrealized value, cost savings, and ROI.
- TMS delivers critical transportation-specific functionality.
Click this link for the blog about TMS vs. ERP. While you’re there, download our white paper, The Case ERP and TMS Integration.
1. What is a Freight Rate Index and How Does it Keep Freight Costs in Check?
Read the blog and we help you answer:
- What is a freight rate index?
- How does a freight rate index optimize freight spend?
- Where can a freight rate index reduce transportation costs?
Discover how a world-class solution like our freight rate index helps you utilize your TMS to its full potential.
Honorable Mentions: Freight Cost Control Logistics Blogs
Total Transportation Cost: How to Know and What to Consider
A critical metric that managers must closely monitor within the supply chain industry is total transportation cost. Understanding what commonly constitutes total transportation costs is critical. And using an enterprise TMS solution can help managers monitor trends in these vital areas more closely.
Freight Cost Allocation to Inventory and How a TMS Helps
A TMS helps users assign or complete freight cost allocation to individual shipments. We provide a step-by-step breakdown for allocating freight cost to inventory in this blog.
What is Logistics Optimization? What are the Results?
Unlocking additional value within the supply chain means maximizing all available resources and avoiding delays. After all, efficiency and success within the supply chain broadly measure how quickly an organization can deliver a positive customer experience. In this blog we explain logistics optimization and the benefits it can provide to your business.
2024 First Half Favorite: TMS Features to Discover
In this blog, we walk through the 5 TMS features that many people aren’t using – or they aren’t using to their full ROPI potential.
And if you didn’t take advantage of these 5 features in 2024, they still apply for 2025:
- Automated workflows.
- Exception management.
- Optimization.
- Final Mile.
- TMS-embedded visibility.
Find out why these 5 TMS features are important and how MercuryGate helps you better utilize each.
2024 Second Half Favorite: Data Analytics, Machine Learning & AI
With rapid advancements in machine learning and artificial intelligence, businesses across all sectors increasingly adopt these technologies to solve complex challenges. But how do data analytics, AI, and machine learning for transportation impact the logistics industry and your supply chain operation?
To highlight how MercuryGate leverages these technology-based solutions, this blog explores the logistics and transportation roles of data analytics, machine learning and AI.
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MercuryGate Blog: Logistics Industry Trends, Tech Solutions, TMS Success Stories
MercuryGate logistics blogs emphasize how our technology solutions align with marketplace challenges that threaten your transportation cost and service.
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Providing TMS, Global Sourcing and Compliance, Shipment & Order Visibility, Final Mile, and Claims Management, the MercuryGate Smart Transportation suite supports improved execution at every stage in your shipment’s lifecycle.
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