At the Future of Supply Chain event in Atlanta, Zach Jecklin, chief information officer at Echo Global Logistics, spoke with FreightWaves about Echo’s dynamic pairing of people and technology and how it’s reshaping the industry. Echo Global Logistics was founded in 2005 with a focus on creating its own proprietary transportation management system, which Jecklin…
The Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals every summer issues a report about the health of the logistics industry and holds a panel discussion with industry experts who underscore the results with real-world perspectives. It’s supposed to provide the definitive post-mortem on how well the freight sector performed in the prior year and look at…
Freightmate Ai announced on Thursday that it has secured a pre-seed funding round led by Wischoff Ventures and is releasing its first automated solution. The funds will be used to enhance the features of its freight forwarding management system, which is being developed by technology experts with experience from Geodis, Manhattan Associates, Amazon Global Logistics…
Sean Laidacker, co-founder and managing director of 3PL Loyalty Logistics, says he’s always been passionate about sustainability and reducing the impact of supply chain emissions on the environment through out-of-the-box solutions. That passion is apparent in the Montreal-based company’s approach to sustainability. The 7-year-old company recently launched a sustainability initiative that includes planting a minimum…
Effective Aug. 1, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will enforce new entry requirements for dogs traveling across the border to prevent the spread of rabies. All […]