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Buy what you can, build what you must

Monday, February 20, 2012

For decades logistics software vendors competed more with potential customers’ internal IT departments than with each other. Logistics service providers – particularly non-vessel-operating common carriers and freight forwarders managing containerized ocean freight — only had a choice between two types of implementations: custom-built or installed software from a third party. It was a “black and white” issue. Today the debate over the merits of building versus buying technolog...

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