What is Transport Management System?


  • The transport management system(TMS) is a business application used in the transport industry to manage the supply chain process. 
  • It optimizes the freight forwarding system. 
  • This system aids the companies to transmit freight from one place to another efficiently and in a cost-effective and reliable manner. 
  • The system covers comprehensive solutions for moving freight in all modes and also includes intermodal movements. 
  • Another vital feature of TMS is it enables optimization, analytics and process enforcement; thereby minimizing freight costs. 
  • The robust solutions enable the organization to optimize their delivery capacity, thereby enabling the delivery of the shipments to the customers in time without any delay.

How does the TMS system assist to the user?
1.     Accounting: State of the art transport accounting software helps in easy management of accounts related work. With the introduction of GST, it has become mandatory for the organization to integrate the accounting a system with GST norms. The accounting feature helps in generating an invoice enables easy augmentation of reports to search bills for generating total bills, in other words, this comprehensive the accounting system is the single platform, wherein one can easily get A-Z of accounting details – accessing vital reports related to accounts and bills, generate bills and access all the information related to the business by just single click.
2.     Fleet Management: The system provides the personnel; who plan the carrier with up to date data, directly from the trucks, thereby helping in boosting the productivity and accuracy in back-office work. The software helps to manage routes by enabling easy tracking of vehicles on the road. This state of art solution makes sure that the vehicles are maintained regularly in tune to the maintenance schedule for each vehicle. In other words, the solution is means of communication from the fleet and to the organization, as it stores, processes, gathers, reports and monitors information as a valuable tool for the vehicles and for the safety and efficiency of your drivers of the fleet.
  

3.     Secured Business Data: Effective transport management system helps in synchronization of vital business data; under one common platform. This data is secured under robust security management in such a way that it can be accessed by management. Accounting, Finance and other important and confidential data are very well managed and kept secure, thus providing 360-degree security level.
4.    Customer Relationship Management: This solution provides the bird’s eye view of the entire logistic process that aids the management to provide vital information to effectively choose a carrier, cut costs and manage a fleet, thereby enabling Good management of the clients.  TMS enables to integrate all the vital features like fleet movements, drivers details, transport information, accounts, etc; thereby helping the organization to make use of information and framework plan in providing quality transport services to the clients. Such easy retrieval of information helps in the effective management of clients thus providing complete satisfaction to them.
5.    Business Analysis Report: The Transport Management system helps in better planning with access to improved analysis and reports. The software allows the user to consolidate shipments after taking into account factors like capacity and route optimization; using this data the user can prepare business analysis reports easily just with a single click. This helps the organization to reduce the overall cost of shipping and aids in improving profits. Also, TMS software handles multimodal shipments thereby allowing business organizations to plan the most cost-effective mode of transportation. With a quick business analysis report, the logistics companies can get a greater understanding of the operations so that proper planning can be done.

6.    Payroll Feature: Payroll system also provides accurate data about the work schedule of each and every workforce thus providing the management and aiding them for further planning and decision making. Good management of the employees helps the management to take flawless decisions about the work plan. It provides a comprehensive solution to manage employees effectively and to provide an accurate record of their work details.
7.    Consignment Tracking: The sophisticated software makes the tracking of the consignment shipment remarkably easy, thereby providing the user the key information every step of the way all through the cargo journey. Also, the software helps in streamlining the track covering freight right from the purchase order to delivery at the destination. Real-time AWB tracking system easily and automatically tracks the location of the parcel, date, time and other vita aspects in just a single click.
 
Summary: Transport management system provides great efficiency in the supply chain system thereby enabling savings to the organization. It helps the user to retrieve and track vital details like the detail of an employee, important freight invoice, etc in just a single click.


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