Mark Berndt has 34 years of professional experience related to multimodal freight transportation planning and policy. Berndt began his career at the State of Minnesota where during 20 years of public service he worked at several agencies including the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT).  During 15 years at MnDOT Berndt held several positions including Freight […]

Watch this Business Record video to see Iowa Department of Transportation Director, Paul Trombino, explain about the Iowa DOT’s work with the Iowa Economic Development Authority to use supply chain network optimization to help make freight shipping easier and cheaper in Iowa. The work also helps set priorities for spending on roads and other improvements.

An optimized supply chain network can greatly improve a company’s competitiveness and profitability. A supply chain consists of suppliers, plants, warehouses, and flows of products from origin to customers. Typically 80% of a product’s landed costs are locked in by the location of a company’s facilities and the determination of product flows between them. Supply […]

Check out American Shipper’s latest issue on Ocean Freight Self-Invoicing. Adam Hall of Dollar General and Rick Langer of Quetica comment on the application of self-invoicing to ocean freight payments in this month’s cover story. Dollar General is nearing the completion of transitioning its entire international transportation payment process to one based on what its senior […]

In addition to managing payments, trade and information technology consulting projects, Quetica has been given the opportunity to provide executive management over the Fleet Team business. Fleet Team provides vehicle maintenance service providers with an automated solution to process work order authorizations, electronic billing, payment receipt and remittance with fleet management companies and self-managed private […]

Quetica was awarded a task order under GSA Schedule 48 to provide strategic sourcing planning and consulting support to the GSA Center for Transportation. GSA’s Domestic Delivery Service 3 (DDS3) is a strategic sourcing initiative that provides customer agencies with a government-wide procurement vehicle, offering best-in-class pricing and access to data, reports and tools for […]

Although the core concepts around supply chain finance are not new, manual processes for both trading partners and banks have historically limited the adoption and growth of supply chain finance products as a working capital solution. These process inefficiencies, as well as associated risks with lack of lender visibility and control, drove up financing costs […]

Quetica was awarded an IT Professional Services Master Contract under the State of Minnesota’s SITE (Seeking IT Expertise) program. The MN SITE program serves as one of several avenues for State of Minnesota agencies and other local units of government to contract for professional IT-related consulting and staff augmentation services. The purpose of this master […]

Missed Quetica’s webinar on Challenges and Opportunities in Inbound Transportation Management?  Access the webinar on demand at your convenience from our website. This webinar is a follow up to Quetica’s white paper examining the challenges, opportunities and strategies to effectively implement a managed inbound program.  Utilizing an Inbound Capability Maturity Model, it explores the latest […]

Join Ann Brisk at the Healthcare Payments Innovations conference in Phoenix, AZ on January 27th for a discussion of “Future Payment Models: ACOs & Capitation – The Next Healthcare Challenge and Opportunity“. Co-presented by Alan Robinson, CFO at Intermountain Logan Regional Hospital, and Scott Krah, Vice President at KeyBank Enterprise Commercial Payments, the session explores […]