® SUCCESS STORY: STAR PIPE PRODUCTS IS MOVING FREIGHT THROUGH THE PIPELINE When Patrick Kirbow joined Star Pipe Products 16 years ago, he wanted to standardize operations across the company’s now 14 North American regional distribution centers. Kirbow, vice president of operations at the global manufacturer and supplier of a broad array of iron products, had a simple goal: Run each facility the same way. It’s been a big project. One of the earlier tasks involved implementing an inherited and inefficient less-than-truckload (LTL) transportation management system (TMS) that required too much manual data input. “As tariffs got more complicated, we had to do even more data entry. I needed an LTL rate-shopping solution,” Kirbow says. That need led him to Banyan Technology, a SaaS-base

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