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How TMS Plays a Role in Marrying Sustainability with Food Safety

Supply Chain Collaborator

Food production and the resulting logistics challenges will only grow more complicated as the global population continues to grow toward the 9 billion mark by 2050. As usual, we must look to technology which is crucial to helping solve this kind of complicated and complex challenge. Many food shippers already have such systems in place.

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For Food Shippers, Variety is the ‘Secret Ingredient’ in TMS

Supply Chain Collaborator

This reality was illustrated by a recent article in Food Logistics magazine titled, “ TMS Needs Diversify in the Food Supply Chain ”. The need for route optimization as a crucial piece of a TMS. Want some examples? Sadly, many TMS solutions are strong in some areas but few are capable in all. The need for LTL planning.