Trimble has officially announced the winners of 2024 Ovation Awards. In case you weren’t aware, the Ovation Awards tend to recognize Trimble customers within its transportation & logistics segment for their innovative solutions focused on improving business performance, safety, and efficiency. Talk about the given winners on a slightly deeper level, we begin from the category of Automation All-Stars: Best in Improving Overall Efficiencies, a category which highlights those companies that automate business processes to eliminate paperwork and reduce manual tasks. Here, Tracso LLC emerged as a winner, thanks to the work it has done in the context of creating a web application hosted by Trimble SaaS Azure, a cloud-based platform. This the company did to automate and validate customer information, share data internally, and submit necessary documents to the government. Next up, we have the Better Together: Best Collaboration category, which basically recognizes organizations implementing Trimble solutions collaboratively with industry partners. This particular category would see four different winners. For starters, there was Tucker Freight Lines, who came up against a challenge of unnecessary manual work, inaccurate data, and untracked work orders. Fortunately enough, Trimble and Tucker Freight Lines would work closely together to reset their technology, accomplishing a full integration to Trimble’s TMW.Suite™ TMS, and at the same time, eliminating duplicate data entry. Not just that, the collaboration would also go a long distance to replace disparate systems.
Joining Tucker Freight Lines as a winner in the Better Together category was Polaris Transportation Group. In essence, Polaris’ case is made by how it worked alongside Trimble to roll out Trimble Instinct™ and FR8Focus, a newly developed mobile drivers application, to fully integrate drivers with the back office. This way it was able to address the problem of tracking both freight and their fleet in real time, while simultaneously connecting drivers and fleets to their backend. To further unpack the solution’s efficiency in solving the stated issue, it minimized lost freight and mitigated delays of document captures by 99%. Then, there was Ashley Furniture who, despite the goal of consolidating entire fleet through a unified application, consistently encountered obstacles due to the existence of 13 separate Trimble contracts. In a bid to cure the same, Ashley established a singular contract accompanied by only four supplementary agreements, thus setting a whole new benchmark for Trimble. In the end, 90% of Ashley Furniture’s integrations, covering Trimble Instinct, Trimble CoPilot®, Trimble PC*Miler®, Trimble TMS and Trimble TMT Fleet Maintenance™ solutions, were successfully realized.
The last winner in the Better Together category was NFI, a company that needed to improve communication flow between dispatch and drivers, which happens to be a complex project as it would require a lot of teamwork and patience. Hence, NFI collaborated closely with Trimble for 18 months to enhance overall driver experience, as well as increase message delivery speed. An example of the success this collaboration would achieve is rooted in how total messaging delivery speed has improved by more than 25%, with things now on track to have NFI’s drivers receive their start-of-day dispatch instantaneously.
Moving on to the Rookies of the Year: Best Trimble Up and Comer, it is a category made to honor new Trimble users who have adopted solutions and achieved notable results within the past 12 months. This particular category crowned Landstar Transportation Logistics, Inc. the ultimate winner. You see, as an asset-light provider of freight transportation solutions, Landstar previously utilized third-party purchase order software to manage trailer-repair records and invoice payments, something which required continuous development, frequent upgrades, and the entry of trailer repairs on two separate systems for one of its largest vendors. Following adoption of Trimble TMT Fleet Maintenance, though, the company now has the means to manage the entire lifecycle of a repair order, with that large vendor, in one single application.
Beyond that, the awards had a Safety Superteam: Best in Advancing Safety category, which deemed Ocean State Job Lot and Billy Barnes Enterprises, Inc. as best of the lot.
