With more pricing power, shippers like you have the opportunity to evaluate additional ways to get access to elastic capacity, save costs, and improve service levels. One route you can try? Flexible drop-and-hook. Many Fortune 500 shippers prefer moving their freight via preloaded drop trailers, and many would ship more drop if they could, but…
Five ways to prepare for seasonal surges
From predictable seasonal surges to unpredictable weather, rising inventories, and shrinking carrier capacity, challenges abound for shippers. Juggling it all can feel like one endless headache for transportation teams. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Convoy and Blue Yonder teams dive deep into why seasonal freight can be challenging to manage—and how new technologies…
Adapting to freight marketing softening with dynamic pricing
As truck prices and tender rejection rates continue to decline, transportation teams are hopping into the driver’s seat to snap up cost savings. While renegotiating freight contracts and scouring the spot market can yield results, this approach is also highly time-consuming, cumbersome, and inefficient. Dynamic pricing contracts offer another way to navigate the soft market.…
How every shipper can benefit from flexible drop-and-hook
Today, the majority of US Fortune 500 shipments are sent through preloaded drop trailers. If they could, many shippers would move 100% of their loads as drop to benefit from its efficiency, foregoing live loads altogether. Unfortunately, shippers haven’t been able to move all their loads this way because traditional drop-and-hook is inflexible, making it…
An introduction to digital freight networks
We are at a pivotal moment in freight. Smartphones are in the vast majority of trucks, automation and machine learning are being deployed at scale, and companies of every size are trying to optimize their supply chains to improve their bottom line. Solving decades-old problems of inefficiency in freight requires a new approach, one that…
Optimize your TMS: keep up with demand in a tight market
You’ve got a truckload of goods to send to a warehouse. A holiday demand spike is around the corner and a late delivery will lead to unfulfilled orders and unhappy customers. The truck market continues to be tight and short of drivers. Are you prepared? In this webinar, Convoy and MercuryGate discuss how backup coverage…
How shippers can protect against market volatility
There’s a better way to protect against market volatility. When market conditions unexpectedly shift, your pre-negotiated RFP rates may fail and leave you scrambling for last minute coverage. This leads to overspending and wasted time searching for reliable tender acceptance. Watch this webinar to: Understand how Convoy’s Dynamic Backup works directly in your TMS to…
Guaranteed Primary: A better approach to primary freight
There’s a better way to procure your freight. Convoy Guaranteed Primary is an industry-first primary freight solution that optimizes savings across market cycles while delivering 100% coverage and unrivaled transparency. Watch this webinar to learn about: The true cost of annual transportation procurement and freight contracts How RFPs and their resulting contracts fail to deliver…
