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Transportation Management Systems - TMS

An effective transportation management system, or TMS, is the key to getting a handle on rising transportation costs within the supply chain. Working with leading management software providers, Tompkins Associates provides expertise to manage the following primary areas for your transportation systems network:

  • Bidding and procurement
  • Network planning and optimization
  • Freight routing and rating
  • Scheduling
  • Collaboration and data exchange
  • Freight audit and payment

We understand your entire transportation network needs, and therefore it is easier to unite all of the components to ensure that the solution is the best fit across the following modes:

  • Ocean-bound container freight and multi-modal
  • Internal and contracted ground fleets
  • Vendor-provided transportation
  • Common carrier LTL
  • Parcel carrier

Tompkins' alliances with best-of-breed transportation management system solution providers assures that you have a consulting partner who can guide you in bridging available technology to keep your transportation management systems running smoothly.

Supply Chain Information Technology Perspectives Blog: Fill in the information gap between supply chain and technology issues with this newly launched blog from six experts on the Supply Chain Information Technology team at Tompkins Associates. See recent blog posts here.

TMS Resources

This outstanding series of two Supply Chain Videocasts from Supply Chain Digest will give you practical insight that will help improve global and domestic logistics and transportation strategy and execution.
Part One / Part Two

How You Can Find Cost Reduction Opportunities in Supply Chain Transportation

For this Congestion, You Need More than Chicken Soup: Shippers Seek New Solutions to Ease Port Crowding

Report: Managing Costs of a Global Supply Chain

The 12 Best Practices of Freight Bidding

Q&A: The Carrier Perspective on Freight Bidding

Top Seven Customer Pick-Up Dos and Don'ts

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