Desired End State – An Insiders Guide to Acquiring TMS Technology
The first step necessary in reducing the odds of middling TMS experience is to define the Desired End-State (DES). Transportation represents 3% - 6% of total sales for most shippers. This is a substantial expense to the business and is often an area ripe for savings. Identifying the levers that drive realizable value to the business, and then thoughtfully selecting the right technology and/or managed service providers will help to ensure your organization's freight operations stand out in a world of mediocrity.
Download the OTM TMS Product Roadmap Review
Outlined in this ebook are the five most interesting roadmap items, as well as our perspective on their usefulness for a transportation operation based on our JBF Sentiment Rating™ with 5 being best.
In today’s world of M&A and serial entrepreneurs, Oracle has found a way to retain some of the best logistics software talent in the world. Many of Oracle's logistics leadership have been involved with TMS solutions since the 1990s. They were the original developers of the Manugistics TMS, and then G-Log before the company was acquired by Oracle in 2005. Twenty-five years later, they remain passionate about logistics technology and how it can be used to solve some of the most complex problems in supply chain.
Download the Power and Deficiencies of Modern Fleet Routing & Scheduling Solutions Whitepaper
Over the past 35 years, technological advances have made fleet routing and scheduling solutions widely available and quite powerful. Legacy providers such as Omnitracs/Roadnet, Descartes, Ortec and Aptean/Paragon are now competing with up-and-coming solutions from providers like Bringg, LogiNext and Opsi systems.
One of the most common uses of private fleets is to support final mile delivery of a company’s products. We call this the “secondary distribution network”.
The secondary network is defined as the movement of product from a distribution center to the end customer location and can be further broken down in subgroups categorized by stop densities. The focus of this paper is on High Density networks.
Download the Blue Yonder Luminate TMS Product Roadmap Review
Outlined in this ebook are the five key areas that caught our attention, as well as our JBF Sentiment Rating™ with 5 being best. In summary, we like BY’s TMS investment strategy. We are intrigued at the possibilities that the Luminate TMS web services will offer once completed, and we are also eager to see other extensions that shore up some of the less mature areas of the system, most notably fleet and parcel management.
Download the Buyers Guide to Transportation Management Systems
When it comes to Transportation Management Systems too many companies jump right into the process by thinking that step one is vendor selection—when approaching this monumental investment from a strategy-first perspective is definitely the smarter way to go. This buyers guide will educate you about the importance of taking the time to conduct proper due diligence before jumping into the vendor selection process.
Download the Manhattan Associates TMS Update White Paper
Manhattan Associates (MANH) has re-written their Transportation Management System. The new solution, now called Manhattan Active Transportation Management (MATM), uses a componentized, microservices (MS) architecture, following in the path of Manhattan’s Active Omni and Active Warehouse Management solutions.
While we applaud MANH for their significant investment in MATM, it does come with risks and costs for current Manhattan TLM users, as well as those evaluating the Manhattan TMS Platform.
Here is our take on the benefits of the new solution, as well as some areas of concern.
Download the Optimizing Transportation's Spend and Impact White Paper
The complexities of transportation cause many companies to treat this segment of the supply chain as an afterthought. Even very sophisticated operations sometimes address transportation in a silo, inadvertently neglecting the significant cost savings and performance improvement they could achieve with a broader perspective. In this paper, we explore why managing transportation holistically is critical to overall business performance and review four key actions companies can take to get the most from this critical area of the business.
Download Our Detention in Trucking Guide
Looking for a win-win opportunity with your carriers? Shippers and carriers can both benefit from initiatives that seek to minimize detention. While the individual benefits differ between shippers and carriers, the commonality is that a reduction in detention time has the net impact of increasing asset and labor productivity which will drive down costs for both parties. Download this practical guide to learn more.
