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Intellitrans Rail 101: Chapter 1
RAIL INDUSTRY OVERVIEW Rail Companies and Infrastructure Currently, there are 540 freight railroads operating 140,000...
Thoughts on Visibility in the Supply Chain
Supply chain visibility. Everyone in the transportation and logistics industry needs it. But there are many...
Reduce Transit Times and Improve Asset Utilization in 5 Steps
Establish Baseline Metrics Observe historical data and compare results before and after,...
Customer Service Operations that Deliver Value
The old days of judging customer service effectiveness by call resolution and average talk time are over. It is time...
Avoid Costly Penalties – Register your private Railcars in OT-57 NOW.
OT-5’s complicated registration process is being retired February 3rd and OT-57 picks up that same day. If...
Freight Brokers vs. Shippers’ Agents
Freight Brokers Within the transportation marketplace, brokers provide a myriad of services. Brokers fill the gaps...
Supply Chain Machine Learning
The IntelliTrans analytical toolkit has evolved over the years from Access databases, Excel spreadsheets,...
VMI: Improving Supplier & Customer Relationships
IntelliTrans Vendor Managed Inventory Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) has been heralded by many industries,...
When is a Control Tower not a Control Tower?
A Control Tower is not a Control Tower if it only provides shipment visibility. Claiming that shipment...
Reliable ETAs in a Changing World
In today’s shipping environment, it’s tough to make accurate predictions on shipment estimated time of arrival (ETA);...
Shipment Visibility
Multi-Modal Shipment Visibility & Execution Shipment visibility has come a long way since we released our...
Multi-Modal Transport Operations
The execution of end-to-end journeys with multiple transport providers can bring benefits to all logistics consumers,...