What is a transport logistics management system?
In an interconnected technologized economy, mobility is increasingly important and companies that want to succeed in business need to manage their deliveries well. Here is what you can achieve by implementing a transport logistics management system to increase your company’s efficiency and competitiveness.
What does a transport logistics management system mean?
Managerial approaches to distribution, courier and transport logistics management systems in general are based on economic criteria, with financial constraints and operational effects.
A complex software structure ensuring transport management is the application known as the Transport Management System (TMS), which involves the digitization of all the activities and workflows underlying the organization of a company’s delivery logistics, and the integration of the equipment used.
Some of the most important functionalities of the transport logistics management system are: planning and tracking, optimizing loading and transfers of goods between warehouses, last mile and milk run optimization, What-If analyses.
The strategic stakes of logistics optimization are high, especially considering the complexity of work processes in transport companies, freight forwarders, production facilities, etc. Digital technologies have revolutionized logistics and continue to improve business management with each new software or hardware solution to ensure an efficient supply chain management.
What are the advantages and benefits of implementing a TMS system?
An integrated logistics system is based on the automation of the flow of goods and services within companies in different sectors: manufacturing, distribution, logistics (3PL), courier, healthcare, HoReCa, catering, traditional trade or e-commerce.
Based on the Logistics 4.0 reality, the most important advantages and benefits of xTrack TMS are:
- customized configuration of transport flows;
- automatic, manual or mixed planning of shipments, efficient loading of vehicles and optimization of all the activities carried out between grouping goods on transport orders and delivering them to beneficiaries;
- tracking the delivery status of goods by beneficiaries by interfacing the system with Track @ Trace applications, or by managers by interfacing it with POD (Proof of Delivery) applications;
- flexible reporting and setting of complex access rights;
- visualization of routes by linking the TMS solution to Google Maps and similar applications;
- adaptation of standard application optimization algorithms to increasingly complex operational flows and business requirements;
- generation of transport documents (CMR, contracts, notices, etc.);
- optimizations in the management of stocks, replenishment flows and delivery of goods; traceability of goods at pallet or sub-pallet level (box, piece) from receiving into the warehouse to delivery at destination if the software solution is interfaced with a WMS;
- IOD (Information On Delivery) functionalities and real-time information transfer/collection;
- reduced transport costs by the route optimization which results in fewer cars, shorter distances travelled and fewer hours worked per driver;
- What-If analyses based on the delivery history and the simulation of different scenarios;
- location choice modeling for logistics facilities to achieve minimum distribution costs based on application algorithms;
- tracking transport cost billing;
- creation of complex transport profitability reports;
- implementation of MultiHUB management.
The infrastructure of a digitized transport logistics management system
Optimal transport management, planning and optimization of routes and other activities and automated document management require a specific infrastructure.
This includes both hardware (physical server, multi-core processor, workstations, mobile computers, mobile phones) and software components (cloud virtual server (if chosen), MS SQL database, EDI interfacing with other applications).
Work with Axes Software specialists to implement an optimal transport logistics management system in your company. You will benefit from an efficient configuration and management of any transport flow.
We tailor our solutions to the needs of our clients and offer them customized applications to help them improve the efficiency of their logistics activities.
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