b"32American Journal ofTransportation ajot.comThe supply chains digital transformationBy George Lauriat, AJOT challenge, or rail or road, the solution was designedcases digital technology, to the totality of the service. for the problem.The supply chains digitalization has been under- Software wasnt a service, but the mechanismt heB RaVen eww oRld ofd igitalizationway for at least three decades. Thats not surprising.to solve a specific set of problems. With the advent ofDespitethefactthatnearlyeveryemployee Moving freight, especially moving freight interna- the worldwide web in 1989, the digital toolbox grewworking in the industry owns the omnipresent smart-tionally,hasalwaysengenderedcomplexities thatexponentially but much of the early focus was stillphone, digitalization is far from being as industry-demandedtechnologicalsolutions.Technologyissiloed. That began to change as the business beganwide as one would expect. simply in the DNA of the business, and always hasevolving technological-based enterprises. It seemedRecently,Magaya,aprovideroflogistics been.suddenly that a company like C.H. Robinson wasnt aand supply chain automation software, released However,throughmostofthetechnologicaltrucking firm, freight forwarder, or a warehouse oper- aStateofDigitizationinFreightForwarding. historyofthesupplychain,techexistedinsilosator but something new - a 3PL, a third party logisticsMagaya based the report on a survey completed directed along highly specific avenues of problemprovider. And a great deal of that providing was sup- by 70 freight forwarders, 3PLs, and NVOCCs of solving.Ifitwasawarehouseproblem,itwasaplied through the deployment of web-based technol- varying sizes from around the world. And Magaya warehouse solution. If it was an international freightogy. Now we have not only 3PLs, but 4PLs, 5PLssummed up their findings as The pace of digi-forwarder issue, the solution was designed for for- and beyond [up to 10PLs by some measures], eachtizationinfreightforwardinghasaccelerated warders. 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