What is Transport Management System?
A Transport Management System (TMS) is a software platform designed to help businesses manage their transportation operations, including the planning, execution, and optimization of their supply chain activities.
It provides tools as well as real-time visibility into the status of shipments.A TMS can also help businesses reduce transportation costs, improve delivery times, and stay compliant with regulations. Overall, a TMS can streamline transportation operations, increase efficiency and improve customer satisfaction.
Planning Allocation
Selects the best possible mix of vehicles to deliver the orders along the allocated lanes considering physical constraints of distributors, trucks availability, etc.
Key Challenges
- Maximizing the use of available truck capacity is critical to reducing transportation costs.
- Compliance with regulations such as weight limits, and safety regulations is critical to maintaining safety and avoiding fines and penalties.
- Planning the most efficient routes for truck deliveries can be challenging.
Benefits
- Increased Efficiency
- Reduced Manual Errors
- 100% Audit Compliance
- Complete Visibility
Features
- Optimized Load Planning
- Dispatch Planning
- Configuration assessment
- Highly configurable – a tailor-made product for you
- Predefined reports, alerts, and dashboards
- Custom User-right Management
Increase in Vehicle /Capacity Utilization
Reduction in overall cost (Direct & Indirect Cost)
Reduction in Planning Hours
Freight Sourcing-Spot
Get the right vehicle at the right price whenever you need.
Freight Sourcing-Spot digitalizes vehicle sourcing process right from floating load requirements and receiving quotes to negotiating with transporters all on the same platform ensuring on-time vehicle placement at the right price.
Key Challenges
Manual & time consuming spot vehicle procurement process resulting in:
- Limited transporter participation leading to higher freight costs
- Delayed deliveries & low customer satisfaction
- Lack of transporter performance data leading to inefficient transporter selection
- No audit trail & activity log to validate spot freight cost to higher management
BENEFITS
- Minimum 3%- 9% Reduction in Freight Costs
- 25% Faster Vehicle Finalization
- 7 to 11% Higher Vehicle Availability
- 100% Audit Compliance
- 300% Improvement in Employee Productivity
FEATURES
- Digitized Spot Vehicle Sourcing
- Automated compounded negotiations – Easy Discovery of the Best Freight Prices
- Audit Trail & Historical Records – 100% Audit Compliant
- Real-time Dashboards & Advanced Analytics
- Highly configurable – a tailor-made product for you
- Manage Multiple Business Units – on a 1 Window
- Custom User-right Management
Indent Allocation
Real-time collaboration from indent to vehicle placement.
Indent Allocation helps you to raise a requisition for vehicles against your contracted transporters based on your business rules. In the case of indent rejection it allows auto re-assigning as per business rules or vehicle sourcing via spot market leading to deep coordination with transporters and on-time vehicle placement.
Key Challenges
- Maintaining contract rule such as share of business etc. in an excel sheet
- Raising requests manually for vehicles against contract & low coordination with transporters resulting in delayed placement of vehicles
- Delay in re-allocation of vehicles from the spot market in case of placement failure
- No real-time visibility into vehicle placement and other logistics processes across all branches & the respective plants
BENEFITS
- Vehicle placement process time for each indent is reduced by 75 – 85%
- 70 – 80% reduction in phone calls
- 50 – 60% time saved in spot vehicle sourcing
- 20 – 25% reduction in order dispatch time
- 100% audit compliant reports
- 300% improvement in employee work efficiency
FEATURES
- Contract Master
- Indent Against Contract based on business rules
- Vehicle Placement Coordination
- Automated Re-allocation / Risk Purchasing
- 100% Audit Trail
- Real-time dashboards and advanced analytics
- One View: Manage multiple BU & plants
In-plant Logistics
Track key events across dispatch cycle.
In-plant logistics digitizes the dispatch cycle such as gate-in/gate-out ,alerts on vehicle release post loading, weighment and record keeping like vehicle inspection reports, etc providing real-time data visibility.
Key Challenges
- Increased TAT due to lack of data transparency & low coordination amongst stakeholders
- Increased detention at loading owing to the teams within the plant working in silos
- Inefficient planning due to lack of real-time data
BENEFITS
- 50% reduced TAT
- Optimized in-plant logistics operations
- 80% drop in detention at loading
- Real-time data visibility & collaboration
- Adherence to drivers, vehicle & customer specific compliances
FEATURES
- Stage wise in-plant vehicle management and TAT monitoring
- Automated Gate-in / Gate-out
- Customized e-Vehicle Inspection
- Vehicle & Driver Masters
- Document Management System
- Dock Management and Loading
Shipment Tracking
Real-time tracking of fleet.
Shipment Tracking allows integration with the available GPS system and driver’s SIM. This platform provides centralised control tower to monitor live status of in-transit vehicles facilitating data-backed decisions amongst stakeholders.
Key Challenges
- No real-time visibility of shipment in-transit
- Increased detention cost at unloading point to due lack of real-time data visibility
- Decreased customer satisfaction
BENEFITS
- 100% real-time communication across project sites
- Improve On-Time Delivery
- Reduced Detention cost at unloading
- Increased Customer Retention
FEATURES
- API based integration with GPS provider for FTL & PTL (Subject to availability from vendor)
- Driver sim based tracking
- Real time visibility of vehicle movements-GPS and Sim based
- e-Way bill tracking & expiry alert
- Control tower- 24*7 monitor live status
Proof of Delivery
0 errors and 0 delays in freight processing.
Proof of Delivery provides an instant digital confirmation of delivery and instant alerts from the customer in case of a service gap ensuring a smooth last-mile experience and customer satisfaction.
Key Challenges
- Lack of audit trail due to discrepancies in POD
- Lack of real-time visibility into operations
- Delay in addressing customer redressal
BENEFITS
- 100% Immediate redressal of customer complaints for damaged goods
- Improve accuracy and details of Proof of Delivery
- Improve Delivery Quality
- Improve transporter relationship with faster freight bill processing
- 100% Audit compliant
FEATURES
- Remove paperwork and simplify daily tasks
- Efficient and quick incident management with real-time alerts
- Real-time visibility and collaboration
Freight Accounting
Go paperless.
Freight Accounting allows you to automate freight reconciliation process. Backend ERP system updation and alerting mechanism once the payment is done to the transporters, all on a single platform thus, ensuring seamless communication across multiple stakeholders.
Key Challenges
- Discrepancies in freight reconciliation
- Delay in freight processing
BENEFITS
- Automated freight provision, reconciliation & accounting
- 3% Reduction in freight cost for smoother payment processing and control on detention
- 0 duplicate payment
- 90% drop in verification & reconciliation time
- Correct & on time penalty recovery
- Digitization helps in reducing the risk of errors
- On-time Freight Processin
FEATURES
- Freight e-invoice and reconciliation
- Claims Management
- Transporter Bill Submission
- Logistics Approval Mechanism
- Payment Status Update