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5 Steps to Create a Data-Driven Transportation Strategy in 2025

In today’s fast-paced supply chain environment, a data-driven transportation strategy is no longer a luxury—it’s a necessity

Driving a High TMS Adoption Rate with Proactive Enablement

Having a powerful Transportation Management System (TMS) is one thing; actually driving broad adoption across teams is another.

Creating Greener Pathways: Sustainable Supply Chains for Shippers

As businesses and consumers become increasingly environmentally conscious, the concept of a sustainable supply chain is front and center for shippers across nearly every industry.

How Predictive Analytics in TMS Transforms Freight Planning for Industrial Manufacturers

In today’s fast-paced logistics landscape, industrial manufacturers face increasing pressure to optimize their freight planning and supply chain operations.

How Piecing Together A TMS Creates A Monstrous Problem

The story of Frankenstein bears striking similarities to the challenges faced with disparate IT systems in modern organizations. Like Victor Frankenstein’s creation, cobbled together from various parts, disparate IT systems are often assembled from different technologies and platforms, resulting in a complex and potentially unmanageable entity.

How TMS Software Transforms Transportation and Logistics Teams

TMS Software transforms transportation and logistics, producing vital efficiencies and promoting better shipping outcomes.

How Your TMS Software Can Help Avoid Shipping Weather Delays

It’s normal for shippers to prepare for seasonal weather patterns. An overtaxed supply chain, however, can grind to a halt because of disruptions due to extreme weather and other natural disasters.

How a Cloud-Based Transport Management System Reduces Shipping Costs

Reducing shipping costs in a supply chain is not about cutting corners or staff, however. To take advantage of hidden opportunities in efficiency and cost control, transportation management teams need access to a cloud-based transport management system (TMS system)

How Industrial Manufacturers Can Maximize Efficiency with Supply Chain Data & Analytics

In today’s fast-paced industrial landscape, data has become the cornerstone of efficient supply chain management. For supply chain executives, especially in industrial manufacturing, leveraging supply chain data is not just an option but a necessity to stay competitive.

How automated TMS delivers a competitive advantage during economic uncertainty

When an economic downturn occurs, companies may try to compete on pricing. Given the circumstances, the reaction is understandable. But lowering prices is often a race to the bottom. Shippers then find themselves losing their customer base while supporting unsustainable losses.

How close are we to self-driving trucks?

According to a Forbes article posted on February 13, 2019, autonomous trucks are right around the corner with a company now gaining unicorn status in their recent round of funding.

How to Manage Mass Carrier Rejections in a Volatile Freight Market

Proactive strategies for supply chain resilience in 2025 and beyond

How to Select the Best TMS Software for Your Company

Selecting the best TMS software for your industry and company’s freight needs can be a daunting task since there are many options to choose from.

Inbound Logistics Top 100 2021

For the third year in a row, Princeton TMX continues to provide the technology solutions Inbound Logistics readers need to achieve the visibility and control that drives successful supply chains.

Intermodal Conversion Metrics Every Shipper Should Track

How industrial shippers use intermodal transportation strategies to reduce freight costs, manage risk, and protect margins. Learn when to leverage truck, rail, and intermodal for smarter, more resilient supply chains.

How to Use a TMS to Run More Effective QBRs with Carriers

In the fast-paced logistics industry, effective communication and collaboration between shippers and carriers are crucial for maintaining efficiency and meeting customer expectations.

Inbound Freight Visibility: How Rail Advanced Shipment Notifications Give Shippers a Better Visibility

Rail ASN (Advanced Shipment Notification) is a new capability in the Princeton TMX platform that flips inbound planning on its head.

How Strict POD Enforcement Reduces Costs and Improves Visibility

Timely and accurate Proof of Delivery (POD) data is critical. Yet many shippers struggle to maintain high POD upload rates, leading to delayed invoicing, disputed charges, and incomplete visibility into actual transit performance.

Managing Volatility in Steel Supply Chain Transportation

Why steel supply chains are feeling the pressure. Discover what drives volatility and how leaders respond.

Multi-mode TMS for Shipping by Rail and Truck

Princeton TMX announces new rail capabilities that augment existing truck (truckload, intermodal and LTL) modules in their cloud-based SaaS TMS system.

Multimodal TMS Software for Industrial Shippers

Why multimodal transportation management systems are critical for industrial shippers.

Packaging Supply Chain Optimization With TMS

How Transportation Management Systems optimize packaging supply chains by improving visibility, reducing costs, enhancing efficiency, and enabling data-driven, resilient logistics strategies.

One Big Beautiful Rail

What the Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern Merger Means for the Future of US Rail Freight

Princeton Consultants CEO Steve Sashihara talks about the Panama Canal driving changes

Rail Signal Design and Testing Simulation Tool Wins Progressive Railroading Award

SATS, the Rail Signal Design and Testing Simulation Tool from Princeton Consultants, Wins Progressive Railroading’s 2022 Reader’s Choice Award

Real-Time Data in Transportation Management Systems: Why It’s Essential for 3PL and Logistics Companies

Real-time data is essential for making informed decisions in today’s fast-paced business environment. This is especially true for truck and rail transportation companies, which need to track shipments in real time to ensure they arrive on time and in good condition.

Real-Time Reporting in TMS: How Princeton TMX’s Prescriptive Analytics Drive Smarter Decision-Making

In today’s rapidly evolving logistics landscape, real-time access to data is essential for making informed decisions and maintaining a competitive edge

Reducing Carbon Emissions with Princeton TMX: A Step-by-Step Guide for Shippers

Sustainability has become a top priority for businesses across all industries, especially in the logistics sector, where transportation is a significant contributor to global carbon emissions.

Reducing Carbon Emissions with Rail & Barge Transportation

As sustainability becomes a top priority for businesses, shippers are under increasing pressure to reduce their carbon footprint while maintaining cost efficiency.

Reducing the Risk of Freight Bill Payment and Freight Audit

A traditional freight bill payment and freight audit process can eat into a shipper’s profits.

Revolutionizing Transportation Management: Princeton TMX’s Fleet & Carrier Management System

In today’s fast-paced industrial landscape, managing freight transportation is a critical component of operational success. For many large manufacturers, this process involves a complex web of 3rd party carriers and private fleets.

Solving Rail Freight Complexity: Introducing Rail Patterns from Princeton TMX

Advanced Shipment Notification is a new capability in the Princeton TMX platform that flips inbound planning on its head.

Spot Rate Load Board Visibility is Essential to Have in a TMS to Shippers

Shippers need every advantage they can get to save money and improve their bottom line. One of the most important tools for shippers is a transportation management system (TMS) that provides visibility into spot rate load boards.

Staying Ahead of Freight Market Volatility with Predictive Analytics from Princeton TMX

The freight industry is facing an era of unprecedented volatility. Supply chain disruptions, fluctuating fuel prices, labor shortages, and geopolitical instability have made traditional, reactive transportation strategies ineffective.

TMS Software Fleet Fuel Savings

How TMS Software Can Deliver Fleet Fuel Savings

TMS Systems Improve Small Motor Carrier Relationships

Of the 900,000 motor carriers for hire operating in the United States, 97% operate fewer than twenty trucks.

TMS Solutions: Transforming the Paper Industry

How Transportation Management Systems (TMS) transform the paper and pulp industry by optimizing logistics, reducing costs and carbon footprint, improving visibility, and enabling more efficient, sustainable, and integrated supply chain operations.

Technology and Instant Gratification

https://www.inboundlogistics.com/cms/article/todays-technology-tomorrows

The Fight to Gain Control Over Carrier Capacity

https://www.inboundlogistics.com/cms/article/using-collaborative-technology

The Dual Advantage: How to Manage Carriers and Private Fleets with a Single TMS

Industrial manufacturers face a unique challenge in managing transportation: balancing the operational needs of both third-party carriers and private fleets.

The FreightTech Revolution: How Princeton TMX is Leading Innovation in Transportation Management

The logistics and supply chain industry is in the midst of a FreightTech revolution, where cutting-edge technologies like AI, machine learning, automation, and predictive analytics are transforming how freight is managed and optimized

The Hidden Costs of Inefficient Transportation Management

In supply chain and logistics, every mile, minute, and resource counts. While many companies focus on direct costs like fuel, labor, and maintenance, the hidden costs of inefficient freight movement can be even more damaging to your bottom line.

The Cost of Low Confidence: Why the Lack of Inbound Freight Visibility is the Achilles’ Heel of Effective Inventory Management

Confidence in your inventory levels is no longer a luxury, it’s a requirement for competitive logistics operations. Yet for many industrial manufacturers, that confidence is built on shaky ground. Beneath the surface of seemingly reliable systems and processes lies a hidden vulnerability: a persistent lack of visibility into inbound shipments of raw materials.

The Hidden Costs of Using Disparate Transportation Management Systems

Industrial manufacturers face a unique challenge in managing transportation: balancing the operational needs of both third-party carriers and private fleets.

The New Reality of Global Supply Chains; Tariff Volatility

For years, industrial supply chains have operated within a well-established framework of global trade. Even as disruptions emerged—from pandemics to geopolitical tensions—many companies remained confident in their ability to manage logistics and procurement through conventional strategies.

The Role of Transportation Management in Supply Chain

The term “supply chain disruption” has become too common. Both suppliers and customers often have to wait to receive materials and goods as planned. So, they have to delay their projects which, in turn, delays other projects along the supply chain.

TimeBlox™ Delivers Trucking Dispatch Software Capabilities for Planning Your Fleet Drivers’ Activity

Deadhead mileage, also known as “backhaul” or “empty miles” is a costly headache for transportation managers tasked with efficiently managing driver time and on-time deliveries.

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We are a Transportation Management Software company that focuses on optimizing shippers’ processes. We succeed in helping companies automate over 95% of their transportation transactions.

What Are The Benefits of Having a Single TMS Solution for FTL, LTL, and Rail

In today’s competitive business environment, it is more important than ever for companies to have a strong transportation management system (TMS). A TMS can help companies optimize their freight transportation, improve their bottom line, and provide better service to their customers.

Transportation Challenges in Lumber Shipping

Lumber shipping is challenged by high costs, heavy loads, weather, and labor and infrastructure constraints. Technology, efficient logistics, and strong partnerships help improve reliability and control costs.

When is the best time to implement a new Transportation Management Solution?

Here’s how to determine what’s the best timing for implementing a new Transportation Management Solution for your company.

Why Negotiating Carrier Rates With An Embedded RFQ Makes More Sense

The savings from negotiating carrier rates with an embedded RFQ can be significant.

The Role of Transportation Management Systems in Sustainable Supply Chains

Industrial manufacturers face a unique challenge in managing transportation: balancing the operational needs of both third-party carriers and private fleets.

Why a Self-Managed TMS System is Important for Modern Businesses

In today’s competitive business environment, businesses that rely on flawless logistics and tracking truck and rail shipments need to have a self-managed transportation management system (TMS) in place

Will railroad transportation be there for agriculture and Food Shippers in 2023?

Railroads help make U.S. agriculture the most efficient in the world. A single rail car can hold enough wheat to make more than 250,000 loaves of bread. (Source: Association of American Railroads).

Exploring the Future of TMS Railways

This article provides a comprehensive overview of how Train Management Systems (TMS) are digitally transforming the railway industry by integrating AI and IoT to optimize freight logistics, improve safety, and drive sustainable, high-efficiency rail operations.

Full Truckload (FTL) Metrics Every Shipper Should Track

How industrial shippers use full truckload (FTL) transportation strategies to reduce freight costs, manage risk, and protect margins. Learn when to leverage truck, rail, and intermodal for smarter, more resilient supply chains.

LTL Freight Meaning: Key Concepts Explained

LTL (Less-Than-Truckload) freight is a cost effective shipping method where multiple shippers share truck space to move palletized, mid-sized shipments that are too large for parcels but don’t require a full truck.

Maximizing Efficiency in FTL Trucking Operations

Explore how FTL carriers use advanced technology and strategic routing to eliminate empty miles and maximize operational efficiency in the high-stakes world of freight logistics.

Rail Automation, Not Visibility, Cuts Logistics Spending

Rail shipping’s biggest cost risks in 2026 won’t come from locomotives or capacity, but from preventable digital paperwork errors, making automation essential for industrial shippers to reduce rail freight costs and execution risk.

The Industrial Shippers Guide to Intermodal Optimization

How industrial shippers use intermodal transportation strategies to reduce freight costs, manage risk, and protect margins. Learn when to leverage truck, rail, and intermodal for smarter, more resilient supply chains.

Reduce Transportation Detention Fees: Proven Tactics

This guide provides expert strategies from the Princeton TMX leadership team to help industrial shippers reduce multi-modal detention and demurrage costs by shifting from reactive visibility to automated, proactive execution.

Benefits of TMS

In today’s fast-paced supply chain environment, efficiency is everything. For manufacturers and shippers managing increasingly complex transportation networks, the challenge of optimizing multiple

Princeton TMX Unveils New Brand Identity Centered on Unified TMS and AI for Shippers

Princeton TMX Unifies Truck, Rail, Barge, Fleet, and Intermodal in One Intelligent Platform

Freightwaves Reports on Princeton Consultants Freight Transportation Survey

How do transportation executives view tech disruptors like self-driving trucks, drones, and Big Data?

User Conference Postponement Announcement

March 10, 2020 After much consideration, we have decided to postpone the Princeton TMX User Conference which was scheduled for March 16-18, 2020.

Toys for Tots Drive – 2022

A big THANK YOU to everyone for contributing!

Top 100 Logistics IT Providers 2020

Princeton TMX is honored to be selected again as a Top 100 Logistics IT Provider for 2020 by Inbound Logistics Magazine.

TimeBlox™ Delivers Trucking Dispatch Software Capabilities for Planning Your Fleet Drivers’ Activity

Princeton TMX TimeBlox™ gives dedicated and private fleet dispatchers trucking software capabilities for driver activity in simple, drag-and-drop interface.

TMX 2019 Software User and Management Conference

Annual User and Management Conference TMX 2019 is a Wrap

Summary of Gartner’s Transportation Trends & Magic Quadrant for TMS

Here’s a summary of the article about the latest Magic Quadrant for Transportation Management Systems (TMS) and the most significant changes to the market over the past few years.

Princeton TMX’s NEXT Conference Showcases Industry-Leading Innovation

Princeton TMX, a leading provider of transportation management systems (TMS), concluded its annual NEXT Conference, which brought together customers, partners and industry leaders to discuss the latest trends in supply chain and logistics technology.

Princeton TMX named as a Notable Vendor in Gartner’s March 2020 Midmarket Context: ‘Magic Quadrant for Transportation Management Systems’

Evaluation based on completeness of vision and ability to execute

Princeton TMX and Telegraph to Launch Enhanced Rail Shipper Products in New Partnership

Princeton TMX and Telegraph have partnered to launch next-generation rail shipper products, enhancing rail freight capabilities for modern shippers.

Princeton TMX Welcomes Nucor to Its Growing Customer Base of Industrial Manufacturers

America’s largest steel producer selects Princeton TMX to unify truck, rail, and barge transportation within a single TMS.

Princeton TMX is a Service Affiliate of the North American Wholesale Lumber Association (NAWLA)

Princeton TMX joins the North American Wholesale Lumber Association (NAWLA)

Princeton TMX Welcomes Mark McEntire as CEO

We’re pleased to announce the appointment of Mark McEntire as our new CEO. McEntire succeeds founder and CEO Tim Minnich, who will continue to support us and Mark as a board member and advise on the company’s growth strategy.

Princeton TMX Second Quarter Major Enhancements

How Princeton TMX Continues to enhance our TMS Product to better serve the Transportation Marketplace

Princeton TMX Named Top 100 Logistics IT Provider 2019

Princeton TMX was recently named Top 100 Logistics IT Providers for 2019

Princeton TMX Partners with Loop for Freight Audit and Payment

New partnership with Loop gives shippers access to a modern audit and payment platform, streamlining invoicing and improving cost visibility.

Princeton TMX Launches New Rail Products to Simplify and Accelerate Rail Freight Transportation

Princeton TMX releases new rail products to the market, Rail Patterns and Rail ASN, to simplify rail freight for industrial shippers.

Princeton TMX Named to FreightWaves 2025 FreightTech 100

Leading logistics provider recognized for innovation in the freight technology sector with its multi-modal TMS that improves efficiency, visibility and sustainability across the supply chain

Princeton TMX Named to the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Midmarket Transportation Management Systems

Princeton TMX announces its inclusion in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Midmarket Transportation Management Systems. FORT WAYNE, IN, UNITED STATES, April 9, 2025

Princeton TMX Named a 2022 Top Food Chain Technology

Princeton TMX Named 2022 Top Food Chain Technology by Food Chain Digest

Princeton TMX Exhibits at Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference 2019

Not only was the weather perfect during the conference, but the attendance was high and the quality of connections we made was great! Brand awareness is a big aspect of why Princeton TMX decided to exhibit this year.

Princeton TMX Completes Strategic Transaction with The Stephens Group

Strategic Transaction to help industrial shippers

Princeton TMX Developer Wins AWS Award

Learn about ReadToMe – The first place winner of the AWS DeepLens Challenge Hackathon

Princeton TMX Introduces Sustainability Tool Within its TMS

New tool measures carbon footprint at the point of shipment execution promoting more sustainable supply chain networks

Princeton TMX Appoints Carole Smets as Chief Customer Officer to Lead Implementation and Customer Success Teams

Princeton TMX, a leading multi-modal transportation management system (TMS) provider, is proud to announce the addition of Carole Smets as Chief Customer Officer (CCO). Smets will oversee Princeton TMX’s implementation and customer success teams, reporting directly to CEO Mark McEntire.

Princeton TMX Appoints Kevvon Burdette as Chief Commercial Officer

Princeton TMX hires logistics industry veteran to lead sales strategy, help shippers optimize freight rates and lanes

Princeton TMX Announces Partnership with Emerge

Princeton TMX Partners with Emerge to Give Shippers Access to Spot Market Capacity and Real-Time Rates

Princeton TMX Announces New Embedded Reporting Module

New Embedded Reporting Module

Princeton TMX And RSI Logistics Form a Strategic Alliance

New service offers shippers a combined truck and rail transportation management software platform.

Princeton TMX Adds Barge Capabilities to Multi-modal TMS

Leading TMS provider integrates OpenTug’s marine voyage quoting and tracking capabilities into logistics platform, giving shippers greater visibility and control over their multi-modal supply chain

How Princeton TMX has handled COVID-19

PTMX News | How Princeton TMX supported employees with work from home

Join us at Gartner Supply Chain Symposium/Xpo 2022

Princeton TMX to Exhibit at Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference 2022

GoodShip Launches Premier TMS Partnership with Princeton TMX

GoodShip, the all-in-one platform for freight orchestration and procurement, today announced a new partnership with Princeton TMX, a leading multi-modal transportation management system (TMS) provider

Congratulations to SDI on their ranking of Fortune Admired List

Fortune magazine has named Steel Dynamics Inc. one of the World’s Most Admired Companies for 2019. The Fort Wayne steelmaker is ranked No. 1 in the metals industry.

Five questions to ask Transportation Management System vendors at a conference

Should you buy a TMS system for your shipping department? Questions to ask TMS vendors at a conference.

2019 User and Management Conference

11th Annual User and Management Conference

2022 Inbound Logistics Top 100

Princeton TMX named 2022 Inbound Logistics Top 100 Logistics IT Provider