Transportation Management System Overview

At the heart of BestTransport's solution is our Transportation Management System (TMS), a system that captures and analyzes vast amounts of data as it continually tracks and measures your entire transportation process. Accessed via the Internet, Best Transport's TMS is a secure online service that automates all aspects of transportation management and execution including inputting, consolidating, tendering and scheduling loads and outputting results. The system's real-time data intelligence delivers management tools that can track status, manage rates, calculate freight payments, generate opportunities, produce analysis and measurement reports and create freight documents.

Plan > Execute > Settle > Analyze

PLAN Efficiently

BestTransport's TMS enables you to maximize capacity by building and consolidating loads according to production requirements.

• Load Input — This web-based interface enables your transportation personnel to input orders manually, or for greater productivity, integration enables orders to enter the system automatically and seamlessly.
• Load Optimizer — The load optimization tool gives visibility to multiple units at one or multiple locations, allows user-defined rules for consolidation, and quickly turns expensive partial loads in to economic full truckloads.
• Rate Manager — The rate manager automates routine and labor-intensive tasks related to carrier contract management such as enabling rates, terms and conditions to be maintained online in one central location.

EXECUTE Seamlessly

BestTransport's system provides constant visibility of shipments to ensure a load is tracked through delivery. The following execution modules eliminate time-consuming manual tasks and enable you to deliver important system-generated messages automatically to key supply chain partners:

• Load Tender — Load tendering enforces a consistent discipline and eliminates the need to interactively phone, e-mail or fax individual carriers. The Load Tender function offers three major tendering methods:
  
  • Tender roll — uses rules to offer loads to a prioritized list of carriers and gives each one an allotted time to accept before moving to the next carrier on the list
  • Direct tender — enables you to offer a load directly to a single carrier
  • Quick tender — enables a load to be broadcast to a group of carriers and offers the load to the first carrier that responds
• Load Scheduler — The online scheduling tool enables you to improve communication and overall transportation department productivity. Automated scheduling enables you to easily manage dock profiles.
• Load Output — Load output allows you to quickly communicate load messages and keep all key stakeholders and systems updated.
• Status Manager — The status module is a comprehensive control center that enables your transportation department to manage and track all loads extensively.
• Documentation Manager — Documentation manager accepts load output messages and turns the information into required documentation for the shipment and delivery of a load.

SETTLE Quickly

BestTransport's freight payment manager produces an accurate payment file that can automatically feed your payment processing system to reduce billing errors and save time. By integrating the TMS with your payment-processing system, you reduce manual efforts to schedule and prepare freight bill payment as well as reduce the associated freight bill audit steps.

• Freight Audit & Reconciliation Manager — Provides a complete audit trail and eliminates the need to check most invoices before processing-you only review and approve exceptions.
• Freight Payment Manager — The freight payment module produces an accurate payment file that automatically feeds your payment-processing system to reduce billing errors and save time.

ANALYZE Accurately

BestTransport's TMS provides data to measure and report against the established Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). You are able to analyze massive amounts of data and continually track and evaluate your transportation activities as well as carrier performance through scorecards.

• Report Manager — Report manager provides a set of standard reports that measure the progress of freight-cost management, staff productivity and delivery responsiveness.