B2B Data Integration and Transformation Blog

The shipping industry is an intricate web of logistics companies, port operators, and customs offices. Every party has a role to play in getting goods from one point of the world to another. Successful freight operations require forwarders to coordinate with everyone along the chain and meet their specific requirements, regardless of systems and procedure variations between partners.

If you are in the logistics sector, you know better than anyone how challenging it has become to stay afloat amid hurdles like the pandemic, mounting competition, and changing customer expectations. The margin of acceptable inefficiencies is now essentially non-existent. Companies that are not doing enough to optimize operations risk falling dangerously behind.

Despite current labor shortages creating something of a tilted playing field for EDI professionals, even companies who urgently need a variety of roles are looking for more than warm bodies.

With backlogs to clear and trading partners to onboard, companies tell us they need specialists who can make an impact with minimal supervision.

Today's increasingly challenging business climate has placed trucking businesses under immense pressure to make operations more efficient. Consequently, enterprises are increasingly investing in solutions that facilitate faster and more secure data sharing.

Electronic Data Interchange has been a critical technology in logistics operations for decades. Businesses playing numerous roles in the logistics value chain use EDI solutions to exchange data and documents digitally instead of relying on traditional, time-consuming paper-based processes.