Sponsors

DAT Freight & Analytics operates the largest truckload freight marketplace in North America. Shippers, transportation brokers, motor carriers, news organizations and industry analysts rely on DAT for market trends and data insights derived from 249 million freight matches and a database of $110 billion in annual market transactions.

Founded in 1978, DAT Solutions LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Roper Technologies (NYSE:ROP), a diversified technology company and constituent of the S&P 500, Fortune 500, and Russell 1000 indices.

Platinum Sponsor

Lean Solutions Group is a nearshore service provider that has partnered with over 350 U.S.-based companies to establish their satellite office in Colombia, South America. We provide a variety of solutions for the logistics industry through various business segments including Lean Staffing (back- and front-office functions such as track and trace, billing, dispatch, and customer service), Lean Tech (software development), Lean Sales (carrier sales and recruitment), Lean Marketing, Lean BPO (professional staffing and customer service). LSG assists customers with a Colombian-based workforce with over 6,000 employees spread across 5 cities including Barranquilla, Bogota, Bucaramanga, Cartagena and Medellin. Colombia provides advantages compared to traditional outsourcing regions in the form of a similar time zone, ease of travel, and high degree of education (all employees are bilingual). LSG is responsible for recruiting talent, hiring/firing, industry specific training, supervision, and KPI-driven quality assurance.

Gold Sponsor

Benesch’s Transportation & Logistics Group is nationally preeminent and was specifically created to address the needs of users and providers of transportation and logistics services. This multidisciplinary group of transactional, regulatory, and litigation attorneys, like so many others within the firm, services clients nationally and internationally.

Cambridge Capital is a Palm Beach-based private equity firm investing in logistics, supply chain and technology. Founded by Benjamin Gordon, Cambridge provides private equity to finance the expansion, recapitalization or acquisition of growth companies in our sectors. Our philosophy is to invest in companies where our operating expertise and in-depth supply chain knowledge can help our portfolio companies achieve outstanding value.

Greenscreens.ai is a dynamic pricing infrastructure for the truckload spot rate market that delivers buy and sell-side market intelligence and business insights to help you grow and protect your margins.  We exist to help our customers quote with confidence & win more business…more profitably.

Our solution combines the power of aggregated market data and your company’s data with advanced machine learning techniques to deliver short-term predictive freight market pricing specific to your company’s individual buying and selling behavior.

The Greenscreens.ai solution provides customers with high-confidence, predictive buy rate guidance and synchronized pricing strategies that are powered by the industry’s most up-to-date and contextually relevant dataset.  It is fueled by transaction data from shippers, carriers, brokers, leading market data sources within the Greenscreens network and executed within the context of our customers’ existing technology ecosystem and workflow.

SnapFulfil is a best of breed, real-time WMS which drives highly efficient fulfillment operations, allowing companies to do more with fewer resources. An innovative, cloud-based subscription model has flexibility at its core – delivering leading edge solutions and a lower total cost of ownership than traditional on-premise installations. This unique blend of Tier 1 functionality, proven methodology and enterprise class IT infrastructure, means more and bigger companies are turning to SnapFulfil to optimize inventory, space and labor within their facilities.

SupplyChainRealEstate.com is the industrial real estate blog created by Ward Richmond. Ward is an Executive Vice President at Colliers International (NASDAQ: CIGI).

Ward’s team within Colliers specializes in representing dominant shippers and carriers in the acquisition and disposition of “supply chain real estate” – distribution centers, truck terminals, last mile hubs, manufacturing facilities and industrial land.