Tech-enabled logistics and brokerage solutions offer shippers increased visibility and control

Atlanta – December 22, 2022, Transportation Insight (TI) and Nolan Transportation Group (NTG), a leading provider of non-asset, tech-enabled logistics and brokerage solutions in North America, was named a 2022 100 Top Software and Technology Provider by Food Logistics, citing its ability to provide the tech-enabled logistics and brokerage solutions food and beverage companies need to navigate today’s uncertain and challenging supply chain.

“Food and beverage shippers are dealing with historical complexity and unpredictability,” said Harris Rainbow, Chief Revenue Officer at TI & NTG. “The supply chain continues to evolve, and consumers are playing a bigger role – demanding products faster and with more transparency than ever before. This recognition from Food Logistics validates the hard work of the TI and NTG teams and solidifies our position as a market leader, offering digital logistics solutions with increased visibility and control.”

On the precipice of a significant transformation, the food supply chain faces post-pandemic market pressures and new demands from shippers and consumers alike. As consumers demand more fresh and frozen food, so too does the need for niche shipping assets – critical to preventing spoilage and ensuring product arrives safely. Shippers must also be prepared to provide more transparency as consumers seek environmentally sourced and delivered products.

TI and NTG’s digital logistics platform, Beon^TM, was created with this next-generation supply chain in mind, strengthening shippers’ visibility, flexibility and control from a single point of access. The Beon^TM Shipper suite of service offerings provides on-demand access to new capacity across all modes and helps food and beverage companies simplify transportation capacity sourcing and shipment management.

“The supply chain management software segment is projected to reach $18.04 billion this year, according to Statista. This includes all the emerging software solutions such as barcode systems, FinTech, inventory control, mobile technology, robotics, wireless technology and more,” says Marina Mayer, editor-in-chief of Food Logistics and Supply & Demand Chain Executive. “These providers and their solutions are being implanted to address challenges in the cold food supply chain, whether that be port closures, driver safety or just simply automating a process.”

This acknowledgement caps off a momentous year for TI and NTG. Transport Topics ranked TI Holding Company a Top50 Logistics Company (#8), while NTG placed 12^th on the publication’s list of Top Freight Brokerage Firms in North America. Food Logistics also named NTG a Top Green Provider, and NTG secured a position on the Inc. 5000 list of America’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies for the seventh consecutive year.

About Food Logistics

Food Logistics reaches more than 26,000 supply chain executives in the global food and beverage industries, including executives in the food sector (growers, producers, manufacturers, wholesalers and grocers) and the logistics section (transportation, warehousing, distribution, software and technology) who share a mutual interest in the operations and business aspects of the global cold food supply chain. Food Logistics and sister publication Supply & Demand Chain Executive are also home to L.I.N.K. and L.I.N.K. Educate podcast channels, L.I.N.K. Live, SCN Summit, SupplyChainLearningCenter.com and more. Go to www.FoodLogistics.com to learn more.

About Transportation Insight Holding Company 

Transportation Insight Holding Company (TI) is the combination of industry-leading logistics providers Transportation Insight and Nolan Transportation Group (NTG). TI brings over two decades of multi-modal expertise and technology to the logistics industry and ranks amongst North America’s largest logistics companies. TI services more than 14,000 shippers and over 80,000 carriers through its proprietary Beon™ digital logistics platform – a single point of access to TI’s mode-agnostic network and services from port-to-porch™. The TI services and digital product portfolio spans across North America, offering domestic freight and parcel transportation solutions, warehousing, data intelligence, and supply chain consulting. For more information visit: www.TIholdco.com.

Contact: Ryan Rogers, TI Holding Company, 770-373-0480, [email protected]

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ATLANTA – August 2, 2022 –Transportation Insight Holding Company (“TI” or “the Company”), a leading provider of non-asset, tech-enabled logistics and brokerage solutions in North America, today announced the release of its first-ever sustainability report. The inaugural report focuses on the company’s commitment to sustainability and tangible steps it is taking to make a lasting impact across the transportation and logistics industry.

“As one of the largest providers of tech-enabled logistics solutions, we must take on the responsibility for leading our industry in solving one of the most pressing challenges of our time,” said Ken Beyer, CEO of Transportation Insight Holding Company. “I’m proud to share our inaugural sustainability report, which highlights our commitment to sustainability and what we’ve accomplished so far. We look forward to working with our clients and partners to pursue a more sustainable and resilient future for our industry, and for our world.”

By harnessing the combined effect of its products, people and partnerships, TI’s sustainability strategy aims to make effective, lasting change by creating viable, inclusive, innovative and resilient solutions to communities around the globe through:

1. Developing a more environmentally sustainable and resilient supply chain
2. Fostering diversity and empowering people and communities
3. Expanding risk management procedures to operate efficiently and effectively

TI’s vision is to make sustainability across the industry the right decision and an easy one – from small and medium businesses to large enterprises. An essential component to support this pursuit is integrating sustainability solutions into the technology customers use every day to manage their transportation and logistics operations.

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About Transportation Insight Holding Company

Transportation Insight Holding Company (TI) is the combination of industry-leading logistics providers Transportation Insight and Nolan Transportation Group (NTG). TI brings over two decades of multi-modal expertise and technology to the logistics industry and ranks amongst North America’s top logistics companies. TI services more than 14,000 shippers and over 80,000 carriers through its proprietary Beon™ digital logistics platform – a single point of access to TI’s mode-agnostic network and services from port-to-porch. The TI services and digital product portfolio spans across North America, offering domestic freight and parcel transportation solutions, warehousing, data intelligence, and supply chain consulting. For more information visit: TIholdco.com

The partnership will offer greater visibility and control for global consignees along with a seamless, tech-enabled customer experience

Atlanta, GA and San Francisco, CA – July 28, 2022 – Today, Nolan Transportation Group (NTG), a part of Transportation Insight Holding Company (TI), and a leading provider of non-asset, tech-enabled logistics and brokerage solutions in North America, and Flexport, the platform for global logistics, announced a strategic partnership to integrate their technology for greater visibility across global supply chains. The partnership will offer technology-enabled solutions across all transportation modes, including Full Truckload (FTL), Less-Than-Truckload (LTL), Expedited, Drayage, and Final Mile.

“Global importers are dealing with historic complexity and unpredictability, and are in need of simple, efficient solutions to keep their goods moving,” said Geoff Kelley, president & COO of TI and NTG. “This partnership creates a seamless experience for Flexport customers to manage their transportation operations. Together, we will give shippers the visibility, flexibility, and control they need to navigate these unsteady times from a single, integrated platform instead of having to use a mix of providers and solutions with different user interfaces.”

The partnership will combine NTG’s and Flexport’s technology with operational expertise to offer customers visibility and control across their supply chains. NTG’s dedicated client services team will manage shipments and communicate with clients via Flexport’s all-encompassing trucking software, Transmission, ensuring a seamless shipping experience from end-to-end. Customers will be able to access over 80,000 carriers in NTG’s network, ensuring reliable volume and capacity amid market volatility. They will also gain access to NTG’s AI-powered technology and predictive analytics to streamline processes and make better-informed decisions as they navigate fast-changing markets.

“We’re thrilled to partner with Nolan Transportation Group (NTG) to expand our end-to-end service offerings and provide a fully integrated, tech-enabled experience for Flexport clients. This partnership will offer greater visibility and control for global consignees, which is key for their success during such times of uncertainty,” said Will Urban, Flexport Chief Revenue Officer. “Flexport and NTG share a commitment to using technology to build a fully-digitized shipment lifecycle for the benefit of our customers, and we’re excited to collaborate with NTG towards this vision.”

This is the latest step towards Flexport and NTG’s shared vision: to enable a fully-digitized shipment lifecycle. As part of the joint product roadmap, NTG’s proprietary Beon™ Digital Logistics Platform will integrate directly with the Flexport Platform via API. Ultimately, clients will have a seamless shipping experience that includes rates and available capacity, load tendering and booking, load status updates, estimated delivery time, and shipper onboarding, all via the Flexport Platform. Businesses of all sizes, such as Serena & Lily, are already using the Flexport-NTG integration to mitigate supply chain challenges and better manage their warehouse receiving operations.

“Flexport’s partnership, commitment to transparency, and quality providers help Serena & Lily transport goods throughout the US. Its innovative technology provides end-to-end visibility of our supply chain, which is critical to our success and growth,” said Jennifer Schwartz, Transportation Manager at Serena & Lily. “Flexport listens, delivers on promise and will go the extra mile to ensure customer success, as it did when the team introduced NTG to Serena & Lily to mitigate supply chain challenges like container backlogs at ports. NTG’s approach to flexibility has helped with receiving challenges and enabled Serena & Lily to control how and what products are delivered to the warehouse.”

*Any use of the word “partner,” “partnership” or similar terms is intended in its common (not legal) sense. Flexport and NTG remain independent companies, and there is no intent to communicate that they have entered into a mutual undertaking as partners or joint venturers.

About Transportation Insight Holding Company

Transportation Insight Holding Company (TI) is the combination of industry-leading logistics providers Transportation Insight and Nolan Transportation Group (NTG). TI brings over two decades of multi-modal expertise and technology to the logistics industry and ranks amongst North America’s largest logistics companies. TI services more than 14,000 shippers and over 80,000 carriers through its proprietary Beon™ digital logistics platform – a single point of access to TI’s mode-agnostic network and services from port-to-porch™. The TI services and digital product portfolio spans across North America, offering domestic freight and parcel transportation solutions, warehousing, data intelligence, and supply chain consulting. For more information visit: www.TIholdco.com.

About Flexport

We believe trade can move the human race forward. That’s why it’s our mission to make global trade easy for everyone. Flexport is the platform for global logistics — empowering buyers, sellers and their logistics partners with the technology and services to grow and innovate. Companies of all sizes — from emerging brands to Fortune 500s — used Flexport technology to move nearly $19B of merchandise across 112 countries in 2021.

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Ryan Rogers
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770-373-0480

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415-497-2603

Despite growing inflation concerns and increases in energy prices, businesses investments are up while consumers continue to spend.

Indeed, supply chains remain tight in support of business investments and consumer spending. Despite some softening in the truckload (TL) market, there is no softening in drayage.

There is a slight reprieve on the US West Coast due to COVID lockdowns in several Chinese cities, but US East Coast ports are experiencing backups as shippers diversify their use of ports to lessen their exposure to the US West Coast ports. According to Sea-Intelligence Maritime analysis, Asian imports into the ports at Charleston, Savannah and Virginia increased 16% year over year during the first quarter.

A lot of uncertainty continues in supply chains and costs remain high. As a result, drayage issues will likely continue through the end of the year but perhaps not to the extremes noted in 2021.

Drew Herpich shared his thoughts on where some supply chain issues might originate. Delivery expectations, transportation costs and warehousing space are among the pressure points that are driving these drayage issues. Let us know if you’d like to Get a Quote for your drayage shipping needs.

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In today’s tight transportation market, finding carriers to cover loads has become increasingly difficult. Capacity constraints, labor shortages, rising shipping costs and growing shipping volumes are all expected to continue throughout 2022 (and possibly beyond), making traditional approaches to procurement insufficient. Addressing both short-term and long-term capacity needs requires a more modern and strategic approach. Digital freight matching can help overcome these challenges by accessing untapped capacity and connecting carriers with freight.

Brian Work gave his thoughts on how digital freight-matching platforms can help address this need by adding real, sizable capacity to a network and directly connecting carriers and drivers with freight.

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The Next Suite of Applications on the Beon Digital Logistics Platform Improve Carrier Experience with Increased Flexibility and Intelligence for Load Matching, Booking, Tendering and Payment.

ATLANTA – April 5, 2022 – Transportation Insight Holding Company (“TI Holding Company” or “the Company”), a leading provider of non-asset, tech-enabled logistics and brokerage solutions in North America, today announced the rollout of a new carrier web and mobile application. Part of the Beon™ Digital Logistics Platform, the new Beon carrier web and mobile app gives a network of 80,000 carriers direct access to intelligent tools that increase flexibility across carrier operations, from searching loads to modifying payment options.

The web and mobile app provides carriers a direct integration point to Nolan Transportation Group (NTG) & Transportation Insight’s (TI) digital freight and warehousing networks, and access to over $15 billion in transportation spend across small-to-mid-sized (SMB) shippers and Fortune 500 companies. Through Beon Carrier, carriers of any size get more freight, options, intelligence and support, giving them greater control of their assets and operations.

Beon Carrier Features:

• Search, Submit Bids & Book Loads: The Beon Carrier load board allows users to easily find loads that match their needs, then bid and book with a single click.
• Post It Now Feature & On-demand Freight Matching: Carriers can post their truck location via the Post It Now feature and leverage intelligent algorithms in real time to match their capacity with the best available options, at the right price. Posting multiple trucks is just as easy while managing all matching results with advanced search and filter functionality.
• Easy Tender Acceptance: Whether it is dedicated lanes or intelligent freight matching, Beon Carrier lets users easily accept or decline freight tenders or submit a counter offer straight from the tender view.
• Check Payment Status: Beon Carrier makes it easy to search and view the payment status of all recent loads and offers 24/7 support for any payment inquires.
• Fast, Flexible Payment Options: Beon Carrier is introducing new payment options with direct deposit, offering 1 Day and 2 Day Pay for carriers with industry-low fees and the flexibility to modify payment terms for individual shipments. Drivers no longer need to deal with the hassle of delays at truck stops to get paid because they receive digital payment on the go.
• Document Management on the Go: Easily upload documents or photos directly through the Beon Carrier app, allowing shipments and accessorials to be processed in a timely fashion.

“Over the years, our carrier network has been critical to our growth and success as a business,” said Geoff Kelley, President and Chief Operating Officer, TI Holding Company. “We are building tech that scales with our carriers and their needs, giving them the tools and flexibility needed amidst ever-evolving market conditions. Beon Carrier levels the playing field for carriers of all sizes with digital products and tools that work for them, wherever they are.”

“We’ve invested significantly in the design and optimization of our carrier-facing organization, for both people and technology,” said Drew Herpich, Chief Commercial Officer, TI Holding Company. “The most important role we play as a 3PL is making our carriers’ lives easier, while giving them the resources and tools to grow their business. I could not be more excited to see these products in the hands of our carriers and see our people continue to support them as they advance to the next level.”

Beon Carrier replaces the legacy NTGVision portal for carriers.

Additional features and programs will be launched in the coming months, including improved track and trace within the app and carrier loyalty programs.  Learn more about the Beon Carrier web and mobile app here.

To learn more about the Beon Digital Logistics Platform or TI and NTG’s full portfolio of supply chain solutions, visit www.transportationinsight.com and www.ntgfreight.com.

TI Holding Company is a portfolio company of Gryphon Investors, a leading private equity firm focused on profitably growing and competitively enhancing middle-market companies in partnership with experienced management.

About Transportation Insight Holding Company

Transportation Insight Holding Company (TI) is the combination of industry-leading logistics providers Transportation Insight and Nolan Transportation Group (NTG). TI brings over two decades of multi-modal expertise and technology to the logistics industry and ranks amongst North America’s top 10 largest logistics companies. TI services more than 14,000 shippers and over 80,000 carriers through its proprietary Beon™ digital logistics platform – a single point of access to TI’s mode-agnostic network and services from port-to-porch. The TI services and digital product portfolio spans across North America, offering domestic freight and parcel transportation solutions, warehousing, data intelligence, and supply chain consulting. For more information visit: www.TIholdco.com

Transportation Insight (TI), a provider of tech-enabled logistics and brokerage solutions, has unveiled a free transport management system (TMS) aimed at small and mid-sized shippers.

Geoff Kelley, president & COO of TI Holding, said: “This free TMS was built for an underserved market we specialise in, the small- to mid-sized shipper, giving them intelligent technology to better utilise their own carrier network while also tapping into our larger network providing scale and density, with data intelligence to make smarter, more informed decisions, at no cost.”

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