Thinking of implementing a Transportation Management System (TMS)? powered by inet-logistics

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1 Thinking of implementing a Transportation Management System (TMS)? powered by inet-logistics

2 INTRO Evaluating a Transportation Management System (TMS) for your specific business needs is a complex and difficult task. In order to provide you with sound orientation, Gartner Research* identified ten critical issues that should be considered thoroughly when pondering to implement a TMS: 01 Technology Architecture 02 Operational and Environmental Conditions 03 Community Management 04 TMS Functional Evolution 05 Managing Transportation as a Global Shared Service 06 Supply Chain Execution Convergence or Logistics as a Platform 07 Shipping Units of Measure (UoMs) 08 Pace Layers 09 Globalization and Service Partner Ecosystems 10 Prototype Demonstration This booklet explains how the inet TMS addresses these critical issues. * Gartner Inc,, Consider 10 Critical Issues When Evaluating Transportation Management Systems, 2013

3 TECHNOLOGY ARCHITECTURE OPERATIONAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT TMS FUNCTIONAL EVOLUTION MANAGING TRANSPORTATION AS A GLOBAL SHARED SERVICE SUPPLY CHAIN EXECUTION CONVERGENCE OR LOGISTICS AS A PLATFORM SHIPPING UNITS OF MEASURE (UOMS) PACE LAYERS GLOBALIZATION & SERVICE PARTNER ECOSYSTEMS PROTOTYPE DEMONSTRATION

4 01 TECHNOLOGY ARCHITECTURE The inet Transportation Management System (TMS) has a service-oriented architecture (SOA), where the configuration follows clearly defined business processes. We provide performance measures which are directly linked and usable in other business processes. Such feedback loops are useful in all relevant processes, e.g. to optimize the underlying transportation network - ending up in better routing information and therefore better operational planning. The inet TMS is one of the only pure Cloud Transport Management Systems on the market. While being a multi-tenant Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution in its core.

5 TECHNOLOGY ARCHITECTURE OPERATIONAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT TMS FUNCTIONAL EVOLUTION MANAGING TRANSPORTATION AS A GLOBAL SHARED SERVICE SUPPLY CHAIN EXECUTION CONVERGENCE OR LOGISTICS AS A PLATFORM SHIPPING UNITS OF MEASURE (UOMS) PACE LAYERS GLOBALIZATION & SERVICE PARTNER ECOSYSTEMS PROTOTYPE DEMONSTRATION

6 02 OPERATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS inet has in-depth experience in the comprehensive support of all transportation modes (Road, Rail, Air, Ocean) and deeply integrated Parcel shipment as a native TMS module. In addition to rate shopping and service selection, inet provides you with fully compliant shipping labels, routing information, manifesting, bi-directional carrier communication and automatic verification of carrier invoices. The inet TMS is the perfect choice to manage your whole transportation environment, whether you focus on single-leg or multi-leg/multi-modal supply chains! The inet TMS is highly scalable. It can have different characteristics, from standardized, fully automated outing and bundling scenarios up to complex, highly fluctuating transportation scenarios with a vast number of nodes, locations, integrated parties, etc. Our customers confirm that SaaS is the right choice for all of their scenarios.

7 TECHNOLOGY ARCHITECTURE OPERATIONAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT TMS FUNCTIONAL EVOLUTION MANAGING TRANSPORTATION AS A GLOBAL SHARED SERVICE SUPPLY CHAIN EXECUTION CONVERGENCE OR LOGISTICS AS A PLATFORM SHIPPING UNITS OF MEASURE (UOMS) PACE LAYERS GLOBALIZATION & SERVICE PARTNER ECOSYSTEMS PROTOTYPE DEMONSTRATION

8 03 COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT In our view, collaboration with all supply chain partners is one of the most important factors in order to benefit from the advantages offered by a TMS. For that reason, integration and onboarding of these partners is one of our priorities. inet is continuously growing and maintaining its carrier community. Always being strong in Europe, inet is also expanding its carrier network in America and Asia. Collaboration with carriers is important, but so is collaboration with other supply chain partners. The system and our implementation approach allows fast and efficient onboarding of all involved partners (e.g. suppliers, customers, warehouses).

9 TECHNOLOGY ARCHITECTURE OPERATIONAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT TMS FUNCTIONAL EVOLUTION MANAGING TRANSPORTATION AS A GLOBAL SHARED SERVICE SUPPLY CHAIN EXECUTION CONVERGENCE OR LOGISTICS AS A PLATFORM SHIPPING UNITS OF MEASURE (UOMS) PACE LAYERS GLOBALIZATION & SERVICE PARTNER ECOSYSTEMS PROTOTYPE DEMONSTRATION

10 04 FUNCTIONAL EVOLUTION The inet TMS covers all relevant functional areas, including the strategic and tactical planning functionality which is fully integrated into the overall TMS modules. Contrary to most competitors who have little or no integrated strategic planning modules, inet has been developing such planning modules for almost 20 years. Our integrated TMS provides capabilities from long-horizon planning to near term execution. From monitoring and event management, tracking and tracing, billing and invoicing through to transportation analytics and performance management. With most recent trends like Internet of Things, big data and E2ESCV inet constantly develops new services such as self-service analytics and mobile solutions.

11 TECHNOLOGY ARCHITECTURE OPERATIONAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT TMS FUNCTIONAL EVOLUTION MANAGING TRANSPORTATION AS A GLOBAL SHARED SERVICE SUPPLY CHAIN EXECUTION CONVERGENCE OR LOGISTICS AS A PLATFORM SHIPPING UNITS OF MEASURE (UOMS) PACE LAYERS GLOBALIZATION & SERVICE PARTNER ECOSYSTEMS PROTOTYPE DEMONSTRATION

12 05 MANAGING TRANSPORTATION AS A GLOBAL SHARED SERVICE The inet TMS supports various kinds of operational separation. Whether used locally by independent business units/plants/shippers or by centrally organized service centers, this system is the right choice. Even mixed models are supported, allowing some processes to be centralized (e.g. transportation planning, sourcing and invoicing) while leaving others de-centralized (e.g. execution). For all these models, inet has a proven track record of making it possible for you to make significant cost savings.

13 TECHNOLOGY ARCHITECTURE OPERATIONAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT TMS FUNCTIONAL EVOLUTION MANAGING TRANSPORTATION AS A GLOBAL SHARED SERVICE SUPPLY CHAIN EXECUTION CONVERGENCE OR LOGISTICS AS A PLATFORM SHIPPING UNITS OF MEASURE (UOMS) PACE LAYERS GLOBALIZATION & SERVICE PARTNER ECOSYSTEMS PROTOTYPE DEMONSTRATION

14 06 SUPPLY CHAIN EXECUTION CONVERGENCE OR LOGISTICS AS A PLATFORM We provide you with end-to-end visibility across all your processes, starting even before the order process. This is done by a strategic and tactical planning functionality as an integral part of our TMS solution. Integration and visibility spans from there to sales, manufacturing, warehousing, picking and packing, distribution, transportation and through to billing and invoicing. While for most of our competitors the visibility ends with the delivery, the inet TMS provides an integrated container management solution to manage returnable containers, providing a real end-to-end visibility across all deployed assets including the return flows.

15 TECHNOLOGY ARCHITECTURE OPERATIONAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT TMS FUNCTIONAL EVOLUTION MANAGING TRANSPORTATION AS A GLOBAL SHARED SERVICE SUPPLY CHAIN EXECUTION CONVERGENCE OR LOGISTICS AS A PLATFORM SHIPPING UNITS OF MEASURE (UOMS) PACE LAYERS GLOBALIZATION & SERVICE PARTNER ECOSYSTEMS PROTOTYPE DEMONSTRATION

16 07 SHIPPING UNITS OF MEASURE (UoMs) Being used by shippers, logistics service providers as well as trucking companies in different countries where each country has its own regulations and restrictions, inet needs to be flexible and configurable to different needs. Therefore, the inet TMS is not limited to any unit of measurement, equipment type, vehicle types or any other regulation. Being flexible when needed, inet still provides industry-tailored and well proven best-practice templates to enable fast and trouble-free implementations and rollouts.

17 TECHNOLOGY ARCHITECTURE OPERATIONAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT TMS FUNCTIONAL EVOLUTION MANAGING TRANSPORTATION AS A GLOBAL SHARED SERVICE SUPPLY CHAIN EXECUTION CONVERGENCE OR LOGISTICS AS A PLATFORM SHIPPING UNITS OF MEASURE (UOMS) PACE LAYERS GLOBALIZATION & SERVICE PARTNER ECOSYSTEMS PROTOTYPE DEMONSTRATION

18 08 PACE LAYERS Due to its modular structure, the inet TMS can be implemented according to your business needs. Whether your strategy is to implement a full functional scope right from the beginning or to start with the fundamentals first, inet provides the flexibility needed - in all aspects including functional scalability, pricing and implementation support.

19 TECHNOLOGY ARCHITECTURE OPERATIONAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT TMS FUNCTIONAL EVOLUTION MANAGING TRANSPORTATION AS A GLOBAL SHARED SERVICE SUPPLY CHAIN EXECUTION CONVERGENCE OR LOGISTICS AS A PLATFORM SHIPPING UNITS OF MEASURE (UOMS) PACE LAYERS GLOBALIZATION & SERVICE PARTNER ECOSYSTEMS PROTOTYPE DEMONSTRATION

20 09 GLOBALIZATION AND SERVICE PARTNER ECOSYSTEMS We support you all around the world, with inet itself being present in the largest economic areas (Americas, Asia, Europe) providing local TMS implementations and operations support. Moreover, our Partner Ecosystem enables us to have a presence around the world with experienced specialists.

21 01 TECHNOLOGY ARCHITECTURE 02 OPERATIONAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS 03 COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT 04 TMS FUNCTIONAL EVOLUTION 05 MANAGING TRANSPORTATION AS A GLOBAL SHARED SERVICE 06 SUPPLY CHAIN EXECUTION CONVERGENCE OR LOGISTICS AS A PLATFORM 07 SHIPPING UNITS OF MEASURE (UOMS) 08 PACE LAYERS 09 GLOBALIZATION & SERVICE PARTNER ECOSYSTEMS 10 PROTOTYPE DEMONSTRATION

22 10 PROTOTYPE DEMONSTRATION Having a prototype or proof of concept demonstration is an essential part of any system selection process, providing valuable insights to usability and functionality. There is no need to install any software on your workstations, as the inet TMS is a true Cloud TMS solution, in contrast to many other Non-SaaS or Pseudo-SaaS solutions. The proof of concept is carried out in an environment which is from a user standpoint the same environment as a production system. With inet a proof of concept functions smoothly and gives you full transparency of the system you are about to buy.

23 INET: LEADING CLOUD TMS PROVIDER How are you planning to implement a TMS? Corporate-wide or for a single business unit? Globally, regionally or nationally? For inbound or outbound only, or for all transportation flows? inet offers tailored solutions and services delivering quick ROI for different needs and project sizes and supports you in determining the perfect solution for your business.

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