TMS-2000 identifies new savings opportunities to significantly reduce transportation costs. Automation of your traffic operations increases your control over the arrival of orders and improves inventory and customer service efforts.

TMS-2000 will eliminate many of the manual routines associated with the inbound freight process. This will save considerable time, eliminate errors, and automate real-time tracking and profitability reporting for your inbound freight operations.

Financial Benefits

Analyzing all delivered freight identifies the lowest cost delivery method to significantly reduce transportation expenses while increasing the overall amount of backhaul and customer pick-up income opportunities.

• TMS-2000 imports all purchase orders from your buying system
• Calculates the vendor allowance offered, FOB vs. delivered and bracket price allowances during import
• Identifies Third Party carriers willing to deliver all orders for less than the vendor allowance
• Displays those PO's that can be managed at a profit in a New Opportunities Report
• Buyers can use analysis of carrier lane rates to maximize vendor freight allowances
• Reduce fleet expense by eliminating empty returns

The versatile Billing Module in TMS-2000 supports private For-Hire Fleet transportation service billing and miscellaneous billing to increase traffic department revenue.

• TMS-2000 supports private For-Hire Fleet billing: the ability to bill anybody, for anything, anytime
• Generates invoices for freight pick-up and handling for For-Hire Fleet carriers increasing department income
• Tracks payment of Fleet-for hire invoices through Accounts Receivable, eliminating manual entry and follow-up
• Flexible invoicing for unloading, late fee charges and miscellaneous charges to vendors and carriers
• Supports Deficit Vendor Allowance billing
• All Transactions can be exported to the general ledger and financial accounting systems
• Eliminate manual entry and errors

Inventory and Customer Service Level Benefits

Effectively managing the inbound freight process provides greater control over the arrival of orders. Using Third Party carriers significantly increases control over delivery of orders when you need them, not when the vendor decides to deliver. This translates into:

• Faster receipt of product
• Fewer out of stocks
• Better control and balance of workloads at the receiving dock
• Maintaining more efficient inventory levels while reducing overstock
• Frees up purchasing department resources
• Better Customer Sales and Service
  

Efficiency and Time-Saving Benefits

TMS-2000 manages the data and communications with carriers and vendors, eliminating repetitive manual entry, paperwork, and faxing. This will save considerable time, reduce errors, and increase efficiency.

• Time-savings in consolidating orders into loads
• Time-savings in routing loads through automated carrier pick-up instructions via FAX, email, or EDI
• Time and cost savings in automatic routing and carrier assignment to lowest cost carrier using AutoRoute feature
• Easy LTL load building using advanced query controls
• Monitors carrier and vendor performance to ensure on-time delivery of orders to meet scheduled due dates
• Internal claim filing module simplifies filing and tracking of claims and associated payments
• Carrier insurance certificate tracking to ensure carriers meet internal requirements and avoid risk management issues
• Create Reports on all backhaul and customer pick-up activity in minutes, saving hours of manual report building efforts
• Automated vendor allowance calculations for freight allowances, FOB vs. delivered and bracket price during PO import
• Third Party carrier billing module allows for simplified billing for miscellaneous charges
• Simplifies multi-stop routing by storing and updating locations, contacts, allowances and bracket price details for each vendor
• Private fleet costing calculates all costs; mileage, fuel surcharges, driver - straight and overtime, unloading and misc.
• The entire universe of purchase orders are imported; the relationship between managed and unmanaged PO's can be analyzed effectively and easily to identify new backhauling, LTL and customer pick-up opportunities.

Accounting Benefits - Complete Audit Trail of all PO Activity

• PO's cannot be removed from the system, so the exact status of allowance, carrier, and income is always available for all PO's
• Actual Quantities Received are automatically updated in TMS-2000, saving time and eliminating errors
• Freight payment is pre- and post-audited for accuracy
• All PO activity is logged by user name, eliminating errors, saving time and providing a complete audit trail
• Comprehensive debit and credit accounting reporting for every transaction associated with each purchase order
• Data output from TMS-2000 to optional ABMI freight audit and payment services reduces your internal accounting costs

Pallet Inventory Control

The Pallet control module is a standard feature in TMS-2000 that accurately tracks carrier and vendor pallet balances and reports on pallet inventory.

• TMS-2000 tracks pallet inventory and monitors pallets owed to/from vendors and carriers
• Fully documented reports for carrier(s) or vendor(s) are available in summary or detail by PO
• Billing for pallet losses can be initiated from TMS-2000

Management Reporting Benefits

Traffic Manager reports can be used to improve performance. Buyer and vendor allowance reports can be used to increase pick-up allowances and bracket price discounts. Carrier rate and lane reports can be analyzed to negotiate better rates with carriers. All data from every screen and report query can be exported to other databases, spreadsheet, or report writing programs. Report categories include:

• Income
• Expense/Cost
• Carriers
• Vendors
• Rates
• Allowances
• Vendor Performance
• Carrier Performance
• Purchase Orders
• Buyer(s)
• Profitability
• Traffic Manager Performance
• LTL Consolidation
• Optimal Carrier
• Income Generated