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Simpler is Better--Transportation Management and Logistics Solutions


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mThink Knowledge - Posted on 14 June 2004

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Stuart Miller;
Transportgistics
TransportGistics is a global multiproduct and services company that provides market leading, simple, incremental solutions for transportation management and logistics functions within the supply chain.

TransportGistics’ rich history in micro logistics solutions and macro logistics strategies is the fuel that drives our simpler is better incremental model. Our customer-driven commitment to provide effective and efficient transportation management and logistics solutions produces the market’s leading toolset, offering highly coherent, intrinsic, and immediate results.

Managing the costs of moving goods through the supply chain is a huge challenge for shippers and consignees. A single shipment involves intercompany and intracompany transactions and communications. Streamlining a supply chain isn’t easy, but the simpler the technology involved, the better.

Our innovative, incremental strategy to assist and enable our customers to achieve cost-effective independence from legacy practices has been highly successful, resulting in double digit cost savings and cost avoidance. TransportGistics Web-native products include:

  • BLGen – Generate, print, manage, and distribute bills of lading, shipping orders, carton labels, and ASNs.
  • FreightTracing – Shipment visibility, proactive planning, performance metrics, and automatic notifications.
  • InsourceAudit – Freight bill management, shipment information, cost control portal.
  • ProductReturns – Removes the difficulties and excessive freight and administrative costs from the customer (B2B) returns process.
  • RoutingGuides – Communicate, manage, and distribute carrier assignments and rules of engagement.
  • TRaIDS.net – A tracking, receiving, and internal delivery wireless application that enables real-time shipment-level visibility, accountability, tracking, decision making, and process support.

Solutions should not be more complicated than the problems they are trying to solve! Simpler is better and that is the approach that we have taken with our Web-native products and services. These easy-to-implement, easy-touse solutions allow users to reduce costs and improve specific operations while managing discrete transportation and logistics management functions, including planning, execution, and management. Each solution can be deployed separately or in an integrated environment to meet requirements to improve business processes, reduce costs, and enhance service offerings.

TransportGistics products address the inefficiencies in transportation management, reduce freight expense, simplify the functions to be executed, make transportation information immediately visible to all parties involved in the transaction process, improve communications, and increase productivity.

Control. Comply. Connect.

Communicate and distribute supply chain requirements and SOPs with ease – Add value to your organization and relationships; affect cost avoidance and make a significant contribution to the bottom line; allow customers to receive and vendors to ship higherquality products more predictably; and appreciably increase the probability for improving customer and vendor satisfaction.

Reduce supply chain costs and improve customer service – Gain visibility and event management while centralizing your fragmented data to become proactive and improve your decision making.

Cut internal processing and eliminate information voids – Capture upstream data and identify each “point of touch,” recording information about each shipment before it reaches your door.

Increase accountability and responsibility – eliminate loss. Keep detailed records associated with each shipment, including bills of lading, orders (purchase and sales), advanced shipment notifications, intransit movement, post-receipt status and freight bills – all parties are fully accountable and responsible for their actions.

Key Capabilities

  • Sourcing
  • Order processing
  • Routing
  • Optimization
  • Collaboration
  • Documentation
  • Visibility
  • Receiving
  • Audit and Returns
  • Reporting
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Business Development
Transportgistics
TransportGistics is a global multiproduct and services company that provides market leading, simple, incremental solutions for transportation management and logistics functions within the supply chain.

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