TMS Transport: Transportation Management Software

Make the best daily choices for chartering and loading to reduce transportation costs.

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TMS transport management system

Why subscribe to a TMS software to manage your transportation?

TMS is one of the most profitable digital investments at the moment, and Generix's shipper-oriented TMS fulfills all your ROI commitments.

Optimize your transportation budget

Reduce administrative burden, optimize your routes, pool your resources, centralize your purchases, and always find the best transportation solution.

Expand your transportation offerings

Add new carriers, quickly open up new destinations, manage multimodal, pooling, and urban logistics with our transportation logistics software.

Control your costs

Calculate pro formas and allocate costs at the finest granularity, reducing administrative burden."

Main features

Scheduling and Chartering

Optimize your orders, always select the best transportation offer, expand your carrier database, and pool your resources effectively.

Route Optimization

Manage your deliveries and pickups in complete loops, make the most of your resources while ensuring the best delivery times for your customers.

Provisions, Transportation

Invoicing Invoice or pre-invoice by automatically integrating contingencies, allocate your costs to the right accounts or clients, finely control your budget with your transportation TMS.

Transportation Document

Management Significantly reduce the administrative burden of your transportation operations, ensure the quality of your information, and avoid disputes.

Monitoring, Performance Measurement

Enhance your operational performance with real-time event tracking. Make your negotiations more effective with the budget simulation feature of your transportation logistics software.

Eco-Responsibility Commitment

Reduce the negative externalities of your transportation, comply with and simulate the impact of environmental and urban logistics regulations.

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Complementary solutions

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Frequently asked questions

A Transport Management System (TMS) is software specialized in transport management. Its main objective is to supervise and optimize transport operations and logistics flows. By adopting a TMS, a company can benefit from improved efficiency, increased productivity and significant reductions in transport costs. These benefits are particularly important at a time of ever-tighter delivery times and higher customer expectations.

TMS benefits carriers, logistics service providers and shippers alike. Depending on the type of customer they target, TMSs are equipped with different functionalities. To find out more, please consult our glossary.

Every TMS has key functionalities that are indispensable for making the best chartering and loading choices to reduce transport costs:

  • Load consolidation management

optimize your product loads to save time and money, whether you use logistics service providers or internalize this function. You can adjust and optimize all your loads according to destination, type of goods or service provider capacity.

  • Visualize your transport network

to monitor your transport network, track your shipments in real time, whatever the length of the journey and the means of transport used. You'll know where your products are, so you can easily manage the flow of goods, and what your estimated arrival times are. An order tracking system will enable you to better monitor and anticipate your transport network.

  • Optimization of external constraints

Integrate third-party data such as site opening hours, delivery windows, driver limits and geographical realities. These constraints can change rapidly (technical problems, site work, strikes, health crises, vacation periods, etc.), which is why all information is automatically fed back into the TMS. In this way, no truck will lose time once on site.

  • Invoicing and budget management

to get a 360-degree view of your transport costs, and precise, customized dashboards including past, current and future transport costs. It's easier to know how much your transport costs depend on your products, customers or destinations, for example. Quotations, invoices and tenders are all grouped together in the TMS for improved collaboration.

  • Communication tools

Use a single TMS tool to manage all interactions with your service providers. Shipment requests, on-site appointments, administrative document processing... everything is centralized in the same place for greater efficiency.

 

An efficient solution to meet your teams' needs

With a TMS, your employees use a modern, high-performance and reliable tool. This means they can focus on high value-added tasks, while the TMS software manages and automates time-consuming and repetitive tasks (rate requests, route optimization, administrative management, etc.).

Real-time tracking of deliveries

A TMS allows you to view the location of drivers and shipments in real time. It provides information on the duration of a route, and can thus optimize all journeys by providing information on the most efficient drivers and routes.

You can also see exactly where your shipments are, so you can inform your customers. This improves customer service and experience, and facilitates transparent communication.

Enhanced supply chain transparency

A TMS contributes to your organization's operational efficiency. Integrated into your information system, it minimizes the losses, damage and errors that can occur in your supply chain.

While there's no absolute answer to this question, as it all depends on your needs, it can range from a few months for simple, well-structured projects, to longer timescales for complex projects requiring special attention. 

To optimize the deployment of a TMS, you need to ask yourself the right questions:

What is the starting situation? 

Assess your organization's level of digital maturity:

  • Is a TMS or equivalent already in use?
  • Are operations centralized or decentralized?
  • Will incoming and outgoing flows be managed by the same tool?

Answering these questions will enable you to set up a company-wide project to ensure that future users take full ownership of your processes.

What is the scope of the project?

This should not be limited to short-term expectations. While it is in the company's interest to select a solution that will enable it to respond very quickly to its business priorities, it must nevertheless ensure that the TMS selected will be able, if necessary, to cover a wider range of needs and support the company as its activities evolve.

How can I involve my team in the project?

Deploying a TMS is a project that requires involving future users as early as possible. Involving teams from the very start of the project will greatly facilitate acceptance of the solution, especially if it replaces an existing solution.

Is it necessary to draw up specifications?

Yes, because it will speed up your project. Your specifications should express your expectations, but above all the identified business objectives and expected benefits, distinguishing between what is mandatory and what is desired.

How to choose the right editor?

It's important to check that the TMS you've chosen will enable you to benefit from other levers of gain, even if these are not a priority. This means ensuring that the solution is functionally rich and scalable according to the needs expressed in the specifications. You should also include presentations, demonstrations and reference visits to ensure that the solution is in line with your needs. And don't hesitate to ask for a Proof of Concept to validate the relevance of the solution. This is critical to the success of your project.

A TMS is a digital logistics platform that helps companies plan, execute and optimize their transport management. It is a tool that contributes to the development of a quality culture, with all projects documented, organized and archived in the cloud. 

What are the TMS's complementary tools?

The TMS is often part of a larger management system, which may integrate a warehouse management system (WMS), a manufacturing execution system (MES), an asset management system (EAM) and shared supply management (SCM).

Communication between a TMS and an external ecosystem

By communicating with an external ecosystem (suppliers, service providers, carriers, customers, etc.), a TMS enables better collaboration with carriers, and saves you a great deal of time and energy when preparing to ship your goods.

It's the role of TMS order tracking modules to open up to the ecosystem in order to retrieve data, reconcile them with each other, alert and offer summary visualization. The document management provided by the TMS also enables documents to be generated from the application (transport orders, prefectures, etc.) or even received and stored (invoices, customs documents, etc.).

Reduce transport costs with a TMS?

Efficiency is at the heart of TMS operation. Cost reduction is achieved by optimizing route planning, loading and the choice of service providers, as well as by automating administrative tasks previously performed by the company's transport department.

With a TMS in SaaS mode, you don't have to worry about the technical management of the platform. You pay for your precise needs, and the publisher then develops the integration and configuration project, as well as training the teams involved, so that you can take full advantage of all the functionalities.

Combine the cloud with your TMS

Thanks to the cloud, your TMS information is centralized, secure and accessible to all employees who need it, from any terminal.

Reduce transport costs with a TMS

According to Supply Chain Digest, implementing a TMS can reduce your overall transport budget, including personnel and management costs, by 10 to 30%. In fact, Gartner points out that reducing transport costs remains the main motivating factor for investing in a TMS.

To determine whether a TMS can be integrated into an existing IT ecosystem, we need to look at its operation and business model. In this respect, a SaaS-based solution makes integration into an existing infrastructure much easier than an on-premise solution, which is heavier, more complex and more costly to set up.

A TMS with a proven track record in interfacing with the main ERP systems should be preferred, to save time and ensure security during the technical implementation phase. The shipper will then be able to take advantage of existing standard interfaces and detailed specifications already drawn up by the publisher.

Thanks to the cloud, a SaaS solution means you don't have to deal with architecture, choice and hosting management issues. All you have to do is subscribe to a service, and it's up to the publisher to deliver the promised level of performance, often framed by an SLA (Service Level Agreement). No installation is required: everything is done via web access.

Transport management via a cloud solution is preferred, so that applications can communicate dynamically with each other using APIs and web services. A SaaS solution enables you to switch to a high-performance, robust end-to-end supply chain. You'll have 360° visibility of your transport management.

Involve teams early in the TMS launch process

To ensure the success of your project, we recommend that you involve your teams as far upstream as possible. Even before the decision is taken to change solution or install a TMS. You need to explain the "why" and "sell" the project to your teams, while emphasizing the benefits of using a market solution. 

Turn your staff into internal ambassadors

If your teams are confident, some of your employees can become internal ambassadors. These are business experts capable of facilitating the onboarding of new users, answering common questions, and working with a project manager to share feedback from the field. You can also take advantage of our in-house or online training services to perfect your knowledge, depending on your employees' positions and missions.

Choose an available TMS editor

Generix Group also has a customer support service available 24/7 by telephone or via a customer portal. Our advanced analysis tools enable us to monitor your systems and contact you immediately in the event of an alert. Our aim is to keep your organization running optimally.

Change management is an integral part of any business. With a proven SaaS solution and a clear methodology, you can encourage rapid and seamless system adoption across your organization by making change management a key aspect of your training and implementation process.

Generix Group's TMS solution is a complete transport management solution, taking into account all resources, all transport needs and all the different strategies for savings and optimization. 

Types of transport compatible with Generix TMS:

Our solution is compatible with all fleet types and all transport categories: trucks, vans, trains, airplanes and sea freight. It can work with a real fleet, owned or leased, or a virtual fleet to plan a particular transport.

Direct transport requirements:

The TMS adapts to all logistical requirements, such as :

  • Direct: from the production plant to the end customer with one vehicle.
  • One-pick multi-drop: a shipment that departs from the same location, but is delivered to different customers. The vehicle has a single load containing several orders for several recipients. 
  • Consolidation: products originate from different locations by different means of transport, and are grouped together at a common intermediate logistics platform. The products are then delivered to the customer.
  • Breakdown platform: used to distribute goods arriving from different locations and by different means of transport, which are immediately transferred to another vehicle bound for different customers. This is a dock-to-dock logistical operation requiring extensive integration of information systems.

What types of flows does the TMS transport software manage?

The TMS integrates a route optimizer that facilitates delivery by improving the various routes to find the best ones, and limit the distance covered. In this way, all flows can be managed by a TMS, which can even decide for itself on the best option according to the timeliness and costs of the order portfolio to be processed.

To anticipate future deliveries, a TMS can track a vehicle in real time and monitor delivery times and methods (geospatial tracking, signature, photo, biometric recognition, etc.) with detection of any unforeseen events. All tracking parameters and notifications are fully customizable to suit your needs.

Track order status with your TMS

It is also possible for third parties to consult the status of orders, at the customer's request. This is the case, for example, with close partners or internal and external suppliers. Generix Group's TMS provides access to a web portal that lists all shipments, and provides each user with key information according to what has been predefined for his or her user type: shipment status, order lines, estimated deliveries, and so on. So you can share only the information that's relevant to you at any given time, in complete security.

Shaped differently from the others

Our customers work with all types of carriers (agencies, independents, etc.) and we are ready to integrate all kinds of services (applications, on-board IT solutions, GPS systems, refrigeration, door opening, etc.). In addition, customers will have access to our driver application, enabling them to control the tracking and delivery process.

The solution is also designed to send the customer a series of predefined notifications or reminders based on established events, to proactively manage the customer and guarantee the best possible level of service.

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