How Can Data Networks Improve In-Transit Visibility?

By Sharon Lo Managing Editor, Defense Transportation Journal and The Source

The world of logistics is complex, with many handoffs occurring during transport on the intermodal network. And critical to the whole process is the question: ‘Where’s my stuff?’

It’s that question—really a simplified definition of in-transit visibility—that CAPT Mark Failor, USN (Ret.), Senior Director for Solutions and Alliances at Infor, addressed during the Cloud Based Platforms for Military Readiness course given during Transportation Academy.

There is an opportunity for creating a global network. USTRANSCOM has a TMS [Transportation Management System], as do many of its commercial partners. So the question then becomes how do you get these TMS’ to tie together and share data in order to achieve end-to-end visibility?…

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