Solution Logistar TMS - Transport Management System

Designed for manufacturers and carriers, Logistar TMS – Transport Management System defines the best transportation plans when it comes to forwarding goods, respecting delivery dead-lines and the customer commitments, while controlling and optimizing costs.

Transport Management System: Transport Management and Planning

A complete and efficient transport solution

Logistar TMS covers all tactical and operational functionalities required to optimize transportation plans, to manage one or several sites and upstream/downstream transportation activities. Whether you are managing customer shipments, forwarding agents or carriers, Logistar TMS provides a solution for all the different logistics organizations you manage.

Support the decision-making and planning processes

Logistar TMS – Transport management System is a customizable system that takes into account the recurrence of the flows to be processed, that can range from assistance in transport organization set up to the automated creation of transport plans by combining in-house resources, subcontracted resources or spot purchases.

Solutions adapted to the different types of flows

Logistar TMS provides different operational models: regular flows can be automatically grouped, planned and operated. Even though changes in transport orders may require manual updates, they can be quickly and efficiently processed thanks to several operational interfaces designed to adapt to market changes. When faced with highly variable demands, Logistar TMS proposes the best distribution transport plans thanks to an optimization tool that takes into account your transport and delivery constraints and rules.

Tools to Monitor Activity in Real Time

Logistar TMS – Transport Management System is a transport operations management system. It limits the risks of delay or delivery failure by respecting customer and organizational constraints and rules.

When connected to a WMS, Logistar TMS can provide real time picking and loading statuses for each order or each delivery route. A monitoring function provides follow-up of load planning progress in real time.

Delivery statuses are tracked, from the creation of the transport order to the confirmation of the delivery. Thanks to on-board communication equipment, the monitoring of activities and events is precise (vehicles geographically located in real time and delivery notes archived via internet). Customers and transport operations can monitor transport orders in real time; transport events are transmitted to the transport center for pro-active response and the delivery process is made more reliable.

Management and Decision-making Support Tools

To efficiently analyze your operations, Logistar TMS provides you with reports and customized performance measures. All transport data are transmitted to a central database and operations can define the most pertinent indicators to assess the performance of the operation according to appropriate criteria; to create reports on profitability, per customer or sector of delivery; to measure the performance of subcontractors and in-house resources: e.g. punctuality rate. Logistar TMS provides efficient and effective assistance when making tactical transport decisions.

Functional scope

  • Tactical and operational planning: consolidation/deconsolidation; hub-and-spoke
  • Transport delivery route optimization
  • Optimization of number of shipping units thanks to a pre-cartonisation calculation module
  • Loading optimization
  • Transport modes management
  • Management of the WMS activity driven by the transport organization (Transport pulling flows)
  • Transport plan automation
  • Tendering or in-house fleet, adapted types of vehicles (in particular fresh products, Hazmats…)
  • Transport orders integration and transmission
  • Tendering and transportation sourcing
  • Real time monitoring
  • Cartography and distances calculator
  • Anomalies and claims management
  • Customized printing, fax and mail confirmation
  • Hazmats management (ADR)
  • Customs declarations
  • Orders entry
  • Pickup organization: loading and delivery slots booking
  • Departures / Arrival management (waiting time follow-up)
  • Gates and docks management
  • Access to punctuality statistics
  • Freight Exchange
  • Label management
  • Shipping load carriers receipt
  • Stock management
  • Reloading management
  • Real time follow-up of the transport execution by the providers
  • Units and transport resources tracking
  • Orders Tracing
  • Transport documents digitalization and storage (especially the POD - Proof of Delivery)
  • Smartphone App for drivers to display trip and shipment information and update shipment related events, POD, photos
  • Trip taken into account (departure km, departure time, etc.
  • Trip execution confirmation
  • Additional data (Delivery note, consignment note, pallet picture)
  • Customer Invoicing
  • Orders pricing and taxation
  • Transport Costs Management
  • Transport invoice control (pre-invoicing, matching)
  • Costs analysis

To efficiently analyze your operations, Logistar TMS provides you with reports and customized performance measures. All transport data are transmitted to a central database and operations can define the most pertinent indicators to assess the performance of the operation according to appropriate criteria; to create reports on profitability, per customer or sector of delivery; or measure the performance of subcontractors and in-house resources, e.g. punctuality rate.

Logistar TMS provides efficient and effective assistance when making tactical transport decisions, as it embeds an integrated query tool, a service quality follow-up, budget monitoring, carbon footprint balance and different management dashboards.

Optimization Modules for Logistar TMS – Transport Management System

« Logistar e-Tracing » module

Logistar e-Tracing is an Order Tracing Module. It traces all orders (arrival, execution, departure) and enables the customer to monitor their product’s distribution to customer through transport events. Sales administrative can, at any time, inform the customer of the status of their order and, on-demand, provide proof of delivery information.

« Logistar e-tracking » module

Logistar e-Tracking is a module dedicated to Product Traceability throughout the Supply Chain, from the warehouse to the customer, enabling you to comply with European Standards. E.g. in a logistic chain of 8 sites and 250 delivery points, product recall plan carried out in less than 2 hours.

« Logistar e-Booking » module

A web portal for transport providers, Logistar e-Booking is a data exchange platform for EDI transactions. It simplifies and speeds up communication between logistics actors when planning for resources thanks to: order entry and its ability to organize pickups; delivery slots booking and departure-arrival follow-up; KPI monitoring and freight exchange providing secure access to all the actors involved in the transport activity.

« Logistar Optimization » module

Logistar Optimization focuses on optimizing all transport flows thanks to the integration of constraints and transport plans. It considers all transport parameters: orders, assets, legal constraints, shipment constraints (products or resources), to bring about the best distribution approach for the goods being shipped. It has the capacity to manage complex transport operations: cross docks and regional delivery warehouses.

« Logistar Mobility » module

The functions of Logistar Mobility allow it to provide a solution that is less costly than satellite tracking: utilizes GSM, mobile phone and WiFi technologies. Logistar Mobility is more flexible in terms of use and less costly in terms of equipment, subscriptions and data transfer. It helps the driver to integrate load carriers to load, to enter GPS coordinates of the points to visit and to make decisions in case of errors. Logistar Mobility ensures control of deliveries and to anticipate possible issues: loading control, unloaded units control by scan, deviations, traceability and reporting of operations.

« Logistar Datawarehouse » module

As a database for all transportation information, Logistar TMS Datawarehouse allows the customer to leverage existing requests and generate customized requests.

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