Challenges for today’s transportation management
Efficient transport processes, especially for multi-modal transports, are fast becoming a key competitive factor for companies of all sizes and industries. Both shippers and logistics providers experience growing pressure to automate their transportation management, as manual and spreadsheet-driven processes become too inefficient and error-prone, transports take longer on increasingly congested roads, SLAs become more stringent and, cost pressures increase.
Challenges include:
Accurately manage shipments with automated transportation solutions
Our transportation management solutions effectively address these challenges. They manage single-stage as well as multi-stage networks with multi-modal transports, and help shippers and logistics service providers automate their processes and make their operations more efficient. They support all tasks from order management, planning and scheduling, operational monitoring and invoicing to evaluating and controlling financial and performance indicators.
Key capabilities include:
- Fleet management of own and third-party vehicles, personnel and equipment
- Master route management with access restrictions at the stops
- Consolidation of all incoming transportation orders
- Track and trace for shipments along the transport routes
- Monitoring of operational transport processes, with automated disruption handling
- Flexible configuration of billing models for different logistics services, with automated or manual invoicing
- Web portal for sharing information with customers, logistics providers and partners
- Compliance with regulations and applicable laws
Key benefits of Körber’s TMS
Time, cost and error reduction
Automating transport processes will increase efficiency and save costs for your entire transportation management.
Transparency
Comprehensive planning and monitoring of outbound transportation processes enables visibility for stakeholders and enables timely disruption handling.
The Körber difference
With unparalleled industry knowledge and technical expertise, Körber is a leader in the supply chain transportation space, as well as in warehouse and yard management. Our extensive implementation experience enables us to tailor these solutions to your business requirements and help maximize your ROI.
Our expertise is further backed by Körber’s global footprint, our continual investment in research and development, and our commitment to innovation.
The Körber TMS in use
Ferros Puig
A specialist retailer of steel and iron goods based in Fornells de la Selva, Spain, Ferros Puig adopted Körber’s warehouse and transportation logistics system. The company has optimized all warehouse and transportation processes across the board, dramatically increasing the efficiency of operational processes.
