Companies that sell logistics-related software or operate Internet exchanges have high hopes for the future, but vendors of automatic identification equipment are watching their margins shrink. A number of entrepreneurs this past year thought shippers and carriers were ready to "exchange" their traditional business practices for Internet-based operations. More than two dozen logistics and transportation exchanges popped up on the Internet, offering logistics managers a Web-based marketplace for locating and hiring carriers and other related service providers.
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