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Do you really need a TMS in your organization?

There is never a clear answer for this question and customers are always grappling with the timing for investing in a system. In an economic low period, typically we see customers reducing IT Spend and are postponing IT purchases. We turn the question completely around and asking ‘Can you afford to not have a complete visibility of your business? ‘ However, it is important for customers to keep in mind a few things while making that decision: 1. Transportation becoming a key spend area:  For many industries, transportation is the key to ensuring that products are available in customer markets at the right time. However, as company operations become larger and the number of service providers and fleet size increasing, the entire transportation management activity may become too complex to manage without having a system to manage and provide visibility 2. Be clear about your objective for getting the system:  There have been many occasions when organizations chose complex syste...

Transport Managemrnt System (TMS) -1-

Transportation Optimization through Technology: Technology can be leveraged to optimize transportation at three basic levels: Strategic Direction, Planning and Actual Execution. Companies typically start using technology to help in setting right the basics first (execution challenges) and then as they mature and become lean, they understand the need for using technology to drive strategic direction and planning.   1. What is a Transportation Management System? Transportation Management System refers to a category of software that deals with the planning and execution of the external physical movements (transportation) of products across supply chains. Various subcomponents/ features of a typical TMS can be categorized broadly into three categories, namely: Planning and Optimization Execution Visibility and Performance Management Figure – Components of a typical Transport Management System (Source: Magic Quadrant for Transportation Management Systems, 2007,  C...