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FAPs Focus on Big Data, Globalization e-Commerce

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Time was when time was money. But with e-commerce and the tightening supply chain compressing time into a final mile, the big money nowadays is in big data – or, as Garry Oswald puts it, “The top trend today in freight audit and payment is data, data, data.”

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Defining the TMS Market

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Navigating the transportation software market is often difficult because there are thousands of companies marketing themselves as Transportation Management System (TMS) providers. In addition to the number of providers out there, it can be hard to nail down the very definition of a TMS and what functional and technical capabilities are required to support the business case.

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Dropship

Expand product offerings without assuming inventory carrying costs to drive additional sales and customer satisfaction.