New Integrations Accelerate Echo’s Ability to Deliver End-to-End Visibility and Automation to Their Extensive Customer Base
February 13, 2018 04:15 PM Eastern Standard Time - CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--project44 announced today that Echo Global Logistics has integrated project44’s modern SaaS solutions to fully automate the end-to-end management of their Less-than-Truckload (LTL) and Volume LTL (VLTL) shipments, with plans to extend those services to additional modes of transportation via future integrations. Echo, a leading Third Party Logistics Provider (3PL) continues to build out its best-in-class, proprietary Transportation Management System (TMS), leveraging project44’s API-based integration layer to achieve instant carrier connectivity and next-generation data standardization.
Echo Global Logistics Selects project44 to Automate LTL and VLTL Activities
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“project44 is an accelerator,” says Miles English, CIO at Echo Global Logistics. “Their cloud-based architecture, focus on security, guaranteed uptime, customer support, and onboarding efficiency rival that of other leading iPaaS-providers (Integration Platform as a Service). Yet, they also have the necessary deep domain knowledge required to help us successfully address the complex challenges present in today’s logistics networks and client’s supply chains.”
“Echo leads the industry by investing in innovative technologies that efficiently deliver seamless and real-time transparency to their clients,” says Jett McCandless, CEO and Founder of project44. “Their selection of project44’s software solutions clearly demonstrates that API-based technology is a competitive advantage, presenting a tremendous opportunity to logistics providers who increase the capacity of their own IT team by leveraging a best-in-class plug and play connectivity network.”
About Echo Global Logistics
Echo Global Logistics, Inc. (NASDAQ:ECHO) is a leading provider of technology-enabled transportation and supply chain management services. Headquartered in Chicago with more than 30 offices around the country, Echo offers freight brokerage and Managed Transportation solutions for all major modes, including truckload, partial truckload, LTL, intermodal, and expedited. Echo maintains a proprietary, web-based technology platform that compiles and analyzes data from its network of over 40,000 transportation providers to serve clients across a wide range of industries and simplify the critical tasks involved in transportation management. For more information on Echo Global Logistics, visit: www.echo.com.
About project44
project44 enables you to deliver stronger value to your customers, through the power of transportation information. By digitizing the entire shipment lifecycle, we ensure access to the right information, at the right time—creating a smarter end-to-end shipping experience. With project44, automate the full shipment lifecycle from quote-to-invoice to see real-time, end-to-end information symmetry. Our multimodal, one-to-many model gets you connected to the largest network of capacity providers in the most streamlined way, empowering you to immediately support new automations and carriers without spending IT resources or wasting time on complex integrations, improving the productivity and efficiency of your entire business.
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