With rising transportation costs, carrier capacity extremely constrained, and a growing understanding of the role of transportation in overall supply chain excellence, more and more companies are turning to transportation management systems to reduce costs and improve customer service.
Softeon's TMS module optimizes inbound/outbound transportation processes through optimized planning, high-performance execution, and real-time visibility. This includes optimized mode and carrier selection, optimized consolidation and routing, automated load tendering and acceptance, integration to carriers via the web or EDI, robust reporting and analytic tools, complete shipment visibility with real-time alerts to issues and exceptions, parcel manifesting, and management and printing of all required labels, shipping documents, and export documents, and while the execution tool creates carrier-compliant labels, shipment documents, and export documents.
Unlike many other systems, Softeon's TMS is tightly integrated with its WMS solution, providing an integrated logistics foundation that manages execution and trade-offs between distribution and transportation.
Key features of the TMS module include:
- Powerful planning and shipment consolidation capabilities
- Flexible rating engine and rate management capabilities
- Automated routing to optimal mode and carrier
- Zone skipping
- Ability to manage and model multi-carrier, multi-leg, multi-stop moves
- Support for inbound and outbound pool shipments
- Rate calculation based on route/zones, rate contracts (discounts), etc.
- "What if" analysis for alternate hubs/carriers, etc.
- Graphical trailer profiling
- Carrier-compliant labels
- Shipping documents
- Shipment manifest
- Export documents
- Hazmat labels
- EDI/XML
- Robust web-based visibility/track and trace
- Power analytics, including detailed carrier performance analysis
