Transportation Management Services
IDS Transportation Management Services efficiently and effectively provides clients a vehicle to outsource their transportation activies and move transportation from a cost center to a competitive advantage. The IDS Transportation Management Solution optimizes freight movements for least cost, best transit and full network network visibility and analysis through a web based TMS for manufacturers and retailers. Through our technology, people and measured processes, IDS Transportation revolutionizes how clients source, plan, execute, deliver and analyze their transportation management activities throughout the entire supply chain for improved service and a total supply chain cost savings.
Summary of the Enterprise Benefit of a Transportation Management:
Technology
Our scalable freight management service programs are managed through a cloud based TMS uniquely configured to fit individual user requirements in each clients’ business. The TMS leverages the internet’s collaborative power and eliminates the exhaustive and expensive integrations associated with their ERP counterpart solutions. Streamlined communications through the cloud brings a collaborative execution freight management model that drives unforeseen improvements within a client’s entire supply chain.
Process
By taking a client’s transportation management activities and breaking them down into strategic, tactical, operational and financial activities, IDS freight management solutions deliver tremendous value beyond controlling a single cost line on a P&L.
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Strategic: Through IDS Transportation’s vast industry experience, the right combination of carriers are brought together to maximize supply chain service at the least cost. Carriers and key components within a client’s supply chain are managed through KPI’s and compliance programs to ensure our freight management solution is constantly moving forward.
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Tactical: IDS is in the transportation market every day giving us a constant barometer of the ever changing capacity, price and resource balancing needed in to deliver top performance in today’s challenging transportation marketplace. Rate and tariff management falls within the tactical side of freight management, along with the monitoring of insurance and safety ratings of carriers within the client’s portfolio.
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Operations: Planning, execution and monitoring from tender until final delivery is where our people and technology within the IDS Transportation freight management solution come together. Indispensable to the planning phase is the rating engine that optimizes rate and route decisions for the best price and service available for total transportation management. Through the TMS, the IDS Transportation team efficiently monitors for exceptions from tender to final delivery producing measured results.
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Financial: Automated auditing and payment efficiently and effectively produces accurate freight bill processing. Within this process, costs are allocated based on account code, sku, etc, which gives the customer complete control as to how they want their costs assigned within their business.
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Evaluation: As the saying goes, if it’s measured it will improve. Measurements and real time information power overall improvement within the freight management program. Through the IDS transportation management solution, companies have information available through web portals and reports that can either pushed out by individual user’s requirements or be retrieved on demand by users for real time visibility to the key components within a customer’s supply chain.
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Analysis: The information available within the transportation management process is almost endless and easily accessed. Information within the IDS TMS allows for what-if scenarios to be run against new ideas, new rates and new processes, so the real impact can be analyzed for a particular change versus taking averages of averages on a spreadsheet to theorize what may be a suboptimal improvement.
Inbound Freight Management
While a great deal of importance is placed on outbound shipments, an even greater opportunity exists to optimize a company's supply chain performance through better inbound freight management. Procurement, order optimization, visibility, improved KPI’s, controlled process and compliance are drivers to smooth today's complex inbound process made up of a multitude of moving parts, players, compliance requirements and synchronization challenges.
The IDS Transportation inbound freight management service provides a dynamic platform where vendors call directly into the team, which then books and optimizes the freight movements for the day based on lane volumes and the most current carrier agreements. Through our inbound freight management solution, all stakeholders have the information at their fingertips via a single platform to facilitate communication in a collaborative environment. Purchasing, Vendors, Carriers, Accounting, Receiving and Traffic can exchange information collaboratively to optimize how product enters into your operation and is transferred into a saleable state to quickly improve the order to cash cycle.
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