Sustainability in Freight: How Technology Drives Green Initiatives

Meet Sustainability Goals and Improve Operational Efficiency

Technology has significantly enhanced green practices in freight management by reducing waste and lowering carbon emissions. What’s more, resulting improved efficiencies reduce operating costs and boost profitability.

Indeed, the future of freight management is with technology innovations that not only drive green initiatives but overall business success.

Here are 4 key ways technology contributes:

• Data-Driven Decision-Making: Advanced analytics allow freight companies to make informed decisions based on historical data and predictive modeling. By anticipating demand, optimizing fleet capacity, and better coordinating multiple shipments, companies reduce the number of delivery trips and thus improve energy usage. Less fuel consumption not only reduces emissions but also reduces fuel expense.
• Route Optimization: Another way to identify the fastest and most fuel-efficient delivery paths is the use of GPS-based route planning and traffic monitoring systems. Such platforms help companies track their carbon footprint in real time, helping them identify areas for improvement and adjust practices based on data analytics to reduce emissions in transportation and logistics.
• Telematics and IoT Sensors: These technologies collect real-time data on fuel usage, vehicle performance, and driver behavior. Companies use insights from this data to reduce fuel waste, minimize idle times, and optimize vehicle operation.
• Cloud-based Logistics Networks: The sharing of logistics resources optimizes the selection of transportation assets such as trucks and warehouses to reduce delivery time and frequencies to cut emissions, satisfy environmental regulations, and lower fuel consumption costs. Identification of electric and hybrid vehicles in the supply chain further accelerates the attainment of green and performance improvement initiatives.

Green Initiatives Save Time and Money

What’s good for the environment is also good for business. More efficient delivery schedules and workflows that reduce your carbon footprint also make you more efficient and improve your bottom-line performance. It’s the classic win/win proposition.

FMI’s proprietary cloud-based freight management technologies attain efficiencies across the supply chain to reduce your carbon footprint and optimize your logistics. Automating freight management workflows not only improves shipping efficiencies but also provides data analytics that improves decisions that directly lead to better environmental and performance outcomes.

FMI Technologies

FMI transportation management systems (TMS) were developed by a team of logistics professionals with over 40 years of combined industry experience. Key complementary software components comprise:

• My Freight Manager®
• FMI Track™
• Logistics Integrations

My Freight Manager®

My Freight Manager is an industry-leading, cloud-based TMS that centralizes all your shipping information, eliminating the disorganization and resulting inefficiencies of disparate tracking systems and manual processes. With an easy-to-understand and intuitive interface, you get immediate access to:

• Shipment tracking in real-time
• Centralized data retrieval
• Automated workflows and email notifications
• Customized reports providing data analytics insights
• Less-than-truckload rates
• Unlimited users and vendors

Additionally, you can easily integrate My Freight Manager with DAT Freight and Analytics to access the largest truckload marketplace in North America. Adding DAT Load Board services, carrier qualifications, and rating tools combined with My Freight Manager further helps you optimize routes and reduce your carbon footprint. And it can save you money.

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FMITrack™

Thanks to FMITrack technology, you get real-time updates from carriers about their load status via smartphone or mobile device for FREE.

The ability to quickly view and track shipments 24/7 allows you to address issues and delays as soon as they happen, so carriers aren’t wasting fuel idling somewhere or driving the wrong way. FMITrack is easy to use and data is transmitted automatically to My Freight Manager.

Logistics Integrations

Centralize and manage all your shipping operations in one location. FMI’s TMS technology and other proprietary technology integrate with the most used logistics software to get you all the information you need at every stage of your supply chain. Our TMS integrates with your freight provider to save time by looking through various logistics platforms to source data more effectively and efficiently.

Some logistics Integration partners include: