Many shippers have heard the term digital freight network (DFN) thrown around over the past few months. DFNs are often associated with automation, visibility and efficiency, but what exactly does all of this mean for small businesses? Here are four ways that a DFN is specifically set up to help small shippers lower costs and get exceptional freight shipping services through speedy coverage, increased efficiency, and higher service levels.
Category: Shippers
How Supply Chain Visibility Holds Carriers Accountable and Improves Decision Making
Supply chain visibility is a game of inches. You can often spot some of the most obvious faults in your supply chain using your TMS, but game-changing improvements come from spotting small, repetitive patterns in your data over time. Finding these patterns is no easy task, requiring high-quality data to understand the details of your…
Instant Freight Rates: Hot Lanes, Cool Savings 7/6/2020
Shippers – It’s the start of the week and you are back at your desk looking at what orders need to move, where they need to go and when. You have hot loads, carrier falloffs, and run-of-the-mill business. Convoy is here to help get your shipments moving on time and at-cost.
How shippers can avoid carrier fall-offs and recover quickly with Convoy
If you are a shipper, you probably know that moment of stress when a carrier backs out at the last minute and leaves you with a hot load to cover. Shippers spend countless hours trying to cover these fall-off loads. With the increased volatility of the COVID-19 freight market, fall-offs are becoming the new normal.…
Encore Glass’s efficient supply chain helps winemakers grow
Getting the right product on time to small winemakers, who often don’t have sufficient storage space and are tucked away in remote corners of the Santa Cruz Mountains, requires experienced carriers who know what they’re doing. Encore found those carriers, but it didn’t have a way to efficiently manage its relationships with them until Convoy.
Instant Freight Rates: Hot Lanes, Cool Savings 6/29/2020
Shippers – It’s the start of the week and you are back at your desk looking at what orders need to move, where they need to go and when. You have hot loads, carrier falloffs, and run-of-the-mill business. Convoy is here to help get your shipments moving on time and at-cost.
Convoy Awarded Company of the Year by Frost & Sullivan for Industry-Leading Digital Freight Network
Each year, Frost & Sullivan presents the ‘Company of the Year’ award to an organization that demonstrates excellence in terms of innovation and growth in its field. Within the freight industry, growth in the digitization of freight providers has accelerated in recent years, driven by a need to reduce inefficiencies in the shipment lifecycle, improve…
Convoy Joins Forces With Tempur Sealy International To Help Make Their Charitable Commitments A Reality During COVID-19
Convoy partnered with Tempur Sealy International, the world’s largest bedding provider, to donate mattresses to the Bay Area Furniture bank.
Flexible Tendering: How this modern TMS supports the many ways freight moves
One of the big adjustments for shippers who go from tendering via email & spreadsheets to a Transportation Management System (TMS) like Convoy Connect is the way they tender changes. Tendering loads via email & spreadsheets is extremely flexible, but it requires you to do everything manually. Using a TMS automates much of this for…
How a Digital Freight Network Brings Supply Chain Visibility
As consumer expectations rise and the market is increasingly volatile, it should come as no surprise that supply chain visibility is on the top of many shippers’ minds. The ability to leverage supply chain technology to lower transportation costs, reduce waste, and uncover hidden inefficiencies has become a requirement for shippers to stay competitive. A…
Instant Freight Rates: Hot Lanes, Cool Savings 6/22/2020
Shippers – It’s the start of the week and you are back at your desk looking at what orders need to move, where they need to go and when. You have hot loads, carrier falloffs, and run-of-the-mill business. Convoy is here to help get your shipments moving on time and at-cost.
Convoy shipper platform automates contract rates for shippers of all sizes
Small and mid-sized shippers often miss out on the cost-savings, flexibility, and high quality service that contract freight provides. To better serve shippers of all sizes, Convoy is excited to announce automated contract rates through the Convoy shipper platform. With two types of contract rates available at four different durations, it’s never been easier to…
Instant Freight Rates: Hot Lanes, Cool Savings 6/15/2020
Shippers – It’s the start of the week and you are back at your desk looking at what orders need to move, where they need to go and when. You have hot loads, carrier falloffs, and run-of-the-mill business. Convoy is here to help get your shipments moving on time and at-cost.
Waiakea’s supply chain unlocks sustainable growth
Waiākea has evolved it’s supply chain strategy to meet their sustainability goals. The company has leveraged its growing volumes to drive more efficiency in its network, reducing costs, transit times and carbon emissions, all while fulfilling just-in-time orders to local distributors who carry very little inventory.
Supply chain consulting from a digital freight network
Shippers sometimes worry that the use of technology in a digital freight network (DFN) takes the place of customer service with a human touch. In fact, shippers who work with Convoy have found the opposite to be true: by automating many of the mechanical, repetitive tasks across the shipment lifecycle, the team at Convoy can…
How to quote, book, and GPS track freight online in minutes with the Convoy shipper platform
With Convoy’s new online platform, shippers get instant upfront pricing for spot freight, can book shipments with just a few clicks, and receive GPS tracking from start to finish.
Instant Freight Rates: Hot Lanes, Cool Savings 6/8/2020
Shippers – It’s the start of the week and you are back at your desk looking at what orders need to move, where they need to go and when. You have hot loads, carrier fallofs, and run-of-the-mill business. Convoy is here to help get your shipments moving on time and at-cost.
Truckloads of Data for Better Supply Chain Visibility
The traditional freight tendering, bidding, and acceptance process revolves around phone calls, emails, and faxes. The modern version of that process happens through an automated process that inherently collects tons of data. In order to automate the brokering process and track shipment progress from start to finish, Convoy collects more than 1,000 supply chain data…
3 ways supply chain visibility can improve facility performance
Supply chain visibility gives shippers awareness of how their goods move through a supply chain. This includes tracking each shipment’s location and the facilities it passes through. It also encompasses the aggregation of data that can surface trends and anomalies, and painting the bigger picture of a supply chain’s performance. The combination of micro and…
6 Ways Summer Impacts Food and Beverage Supply Chains
We’re taught from an early age to see summer as a joyous occasion. In a normal school year, when the final bell rings at the end of the semester, kids throughout the US run out the door to enjoy a months-long vacation uninterrupted by school, homework, or responsibilities. Food and beverage logistics professionals see summer…
