# Freight Forwarders & Digitization: Part 3: Effective Automation

## **Get the Third Installment in the Series: Effective Automation**

To accelerate operations and become a digital forwarder, freight forwarders must automate time-consuming, non-value-added activities and refocus resources on what they do best—moving freight.

This ultimate guide is the third in a series that covers how the freight forwarding market is changing and what to do it about it. Filled with easy-to-understand practical take-aways, this piece focuses on opportunities for automation that can free forwarders to improve productivity and accelerate business growth.

- **Customer-Facing Enablement** – Today’s customers have high expectations. They anticipate online visibility, continuous communication, and self-service access.

[Download Part 1](/content/lp/whitepaper_digitization_pt1/index.html)

- **Collecting Data and Effective Integration** – Seamlessly passing data between trading partners with data-driven analytics is fundamental to effective digitization.

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- **Effective Automation** – Automating as much manual work as possible can free resources and help forwarders untangle from legacy analog-driven, labor-intensive processes. **Please download to the right.**

- **Global Price Management (GPM)** – Learn about a new class of digital solutions for forwarders called Global Price Management that is helping forwarders differentiate their service offering and improve the bottom line.

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